Reports and publications

Back in December, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities released a revised straw proposal for the development of charging infrastructure for zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles throughout the state.

Summary report for online workshop hosted by Atlas Public Policy and the Environmental Defense Fund held on October 17, 2022.

Reducing agricultural methane emissions is essential to a climate-safe future with healthy, thriving communities. However, solutions that cut methane from agriculture but fail to also remedy harmful impacts to local communities’ health, air and water quality are insufficient.

EDF filed this amicus brief to correct the record after we learned that our past statements on biogas were used — selectively and without our knowledge — in court filings and other venues to undercut the advocacy of peer and partner organizations seeking state government action to address community-level impacts. This misrepresentation of EDF’s position is not aligned with our views of the current situation or our values as an organization committed to strengthening people’s ability to thrive on a changing planet.

As unprecedented drought torments the American West, Maurice Hall and his team are using science and forging partnerships to create a whole new approach to water management — one that can revitalize rivers and aquifers and share water more equitably.

This report explains the process by which Texas Groundwater Conservation Districts (GCDs) have executed their statutorily required planning function to arrive at a Desired Future Condition (DFC) and the inextricable link that exists between DFC development and state water planning.

All future climate scenarios that hold planetary warming close to 1.5 °C by 2050 will require massive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, supplemented by the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods to clean up leftover heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide can be permanently stored under the seabed in geologic reservoirs.

Marine plants and algae, like phytoplankton, take up CO2 during photosynthesis, and this can increase the ocean’s uptake of atmospheric CO2.

This booklet from EDF and partners provides a primer on various ocean CDR strategies, summarizing the theory behind each technique, the current state of knowledge of their carbon storage potential and associated costs, technical readiness, and potential environmental and social impacts.