Reports and publications

Infographic depicting trends in the 2018 EDF Climate Corps host recruiting season. 

Growing Returns blog authored by Shannon Cunniff with contributions from Kate Zerrenner.

Forbes op-ed by Dick Munson on FirstEnergy’s bailout plea.

Unanswered Questions from Scott Pruitt’s Suspicious Tenure as EPA Administrator

Fred Krupp share’s EDF’s plan to track global methane emissions with incredible precision using a satellite called MethaneSAT, which will give governments, corporations and the public the data to act. This ambitious plan is one of the first ideas of The Audacious Project, TED’s new initiative to inspire global change.

While Louisiana’s coast continues to erode at the rate of one football field every 100 minutes, the resource it so preciously needs — sediment — has continued to flow right past the areas where it’s needed most. Op-ed by Steve Cochran for The Times-Picayune.

EDF is collaborating with Rice University and the City of Houston on an innovative approach to building a more resilient Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey

Given the increased frequency of severe flooding events, improving aspects of FEMA’s Community Rating System could expand community participation and reduce the impacts, and therefore the costs, of flood disasters.

Op-ed by Dick Munson in The Hill about FirstEnergy’s emergency order request 

In Washington, it’s hard to have a week as bad as EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Texas Clean Air Matters blog by Shannon Cunniff with contributions from Kate Zerrenner. 

EPA chief Scott Pruitt is undermining chemical safety - and EDF is fighting back.

Hope or hype? Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Following push backlash, Congress rejected the Administration’s attacks on our public health in the recent Omnibus bill.

This report analyzes alternative scenarios for the demand for and supply of greenhouse gas emissions units and the resulting carbon price ranges facing the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).

The Fourth Wave will empower people and fundamentally transform how we solve environmental problems. Fred Krupp explains in The Wall Street Journal.

Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest hog producer and pork processor, is the first food company to get involved in a new program aimed at saving the monarch, the orange-winged insect environmentalists fear could end up on the endangered species list by next year.

The monarch butterfly has a new chance at recovery, thanks to an innovative program seeking to crowdsource funding and habitat for the beloved species at an unprecedented scale and pace.

Dick Munson op-ed in Cleveland Plain Dealer about FirstEnergy’s lobbying efforts.