Reports and publications

Environmental Defense Fund, Cornell University, and Kansas State University studied how severe weather financially impacts Kansas farms and how management choices and government programs mitigate the negative impacts. The study used a 40-year Kansas farm financial dataset and historic weather data to measure the impacts of extreme heat on gross and net farm income.

EDF fact sheet on EV charging for Illinois home renters and condo owners. 

Groundwater is facing unprecedented pressure from over-extraction, pollution, and climate change. Drawing on years of experience across multiple geographies, EDF has developed a flexible management framework for communities to adapt in their effort to achieve sustainable groundwater use.

10 recommendations from Environmental Defense Fund.

This report aims to educate, empower and mobilize diverse policymakers, private asset managers and owners, and business executives toward agrifood systems transformation with far greater and more equitably distributed health, climate and financial returns for all.

Analysis by Environmental Defense Fund finds that enough U.S. battery production capacity has already been announced to supply all the electric vehicles – both cars and trucks – expected to be sold in 2030.

Summary of research, the result of a collaboration between EDF and Northwestern and informed by key input from community partners, demonstrating the significant positive impact that the Advanced Clean Trucks rule can have in the greater Chicagoland area.

This poll was conducted between October 11 - October 16, 2023 among a sample of 600 adults in Hydrogen Hub communities. The interviews were conducted online. Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. For the purposes of this survey, Hydrogen Hub communities constitute surveyed participants in zip codes relating to areas that have been selected or were strongly considered to become a home to a DOE Hydrogen Hub within the Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs Program (H2Hubs). These communities were identified based upon Rystad’s analysis of 22 publicly announced hub proposals for H2Hubs.

Across the U.S., states are passing laws that will ensure greater equity as we transition to a clean energy system. This EDF report that documents states’ efforts to make their energy transition more equitable and healthier.

This EDF report provides an overview of the dual water stressors of too little and too much water, the current and potential future impacts these might have on agriculture, and highlights emerging adaptation strategies to enhance resilience. This report focuses on impacts to agriculture in the western and midwestern U.S.