EDF has been fighting for a better future for over 50 years — and we’re stepping up that fight as the Trump administration moves to erode the United States’ environmental protections.
No one wants to live in a dirtier world. But that’s the direction the administration’s policies are taking us: More pollution that harms people’s health. More toxic chemicals in air and water. Escalating extreme weather, fueled by a hotter planet.
Plans to abandon clean energy investments will make America weaker, sending jobs to other countries, raising energy prices and burdening future generations with worse pollution, storms and wildfires.
But history isn’t preordained — it’s shaped by the actions we take together. We can’t stop working in tough times. In this pivotal moment for America, here’s how EDF is showing up for the fight.
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EDF, Allies File Comments Urging the Trump EPA to Continue the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
November 3, 2025
| Edwin LaMair, Senior Attorney, U.S. Legal & Regulatory
For well over a decade, EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has been a vital source of public information about climate pollution.
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Cost of Trump Administration’s Mandates to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Open Balloons to $80 Million
October 31, 2025
| Ted Kelly, Director and Lead Counsel, U.S. Clean Energy
Keeping the J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan running past its planned retirement in May led to a net loss of $80 million through Sept. 30
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A look back: Ten years after Aliso Canyon, the worst gas leak in U.S. history
October 22, 2025
It was called “the BP oil spill on land.” Now, federal methane safeguards put in place after a massive gas leak outside Los Angeles in 2015 are under attack by the Trump administration.
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Community, Health and Environmental Groups Sue to Stop President Trump’s Unlawful Toxic Air Pollution Exemptions
October 22, 2025
| Rosalie Winn, Senior Director and Lead Counsel, Methane and Clean Air Policy
Advocacy groups sued the Trump administration today to stop an executive action that would offer chemical plants a free pass to pollute
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Mass Firings of Public Servants Make Every Single American Less Safe
October 10, 2025
| Joanna Slaney, Vice President for Political and Government Affairs
The mass firings ordered by President Trump’s budget director, Russell Vought, are a continued attack on public service and expertise.
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Trump Administration Reportedly Cancels Nevada’s Largest Solar and Storage Project, Restricting Clean Affordable Electricity Supply as Costs Surge
October 10, 2025
| Ted Kelly, Director and Lead Counsel, U.S. Clean Energy
The Esmeralda Seven solar project in Nevada has been canceled, restricting clean electricity supply.
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Aging coal power plants in the U.S. are costing consumers millions
October 8, 2025
The Trump administration is illegally preventing coal power plants from retiring. The result? Higher electric bills, more pollution and worse health.
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EDF and Partners Send Formal Letter Sharing Legal and Scientific Concerns About the implementation of the 45V Tax Credit for Hydrogen
October 3, 2025
| Edwin LaMair, Senior Attorney, U.S. Legal & Regulatory
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Recent Updates Undermine Key Guardrails for Clean Hydrogen
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Trump Administration's Partisan Energy Project Cancellations Will Raise Electricity Costs
October 2, 2025
| Joanna Slaney, Vice President for Political and Government Affairs
The Trump administration’s unlawful, partisan clean energy project cancellations are going to make everyone’s electricity costs even higher.
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EDF Experts Urge Trump EPA Not to Eliminate Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
October 1, 2025
| Edwin LaMair, Senior Attorney, U.S. Legal & Regulatory
The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has provided transparent, credible public information about climate pollution for years.
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Trump Administration’s Subsidies for Costly Coal Saddle Families with High Bills, More Pollution
September 29, 2025
| Ted Kelly, Director and Lead Counsel, U.S. Clean Energy
Subsidizing coal means propping up dirty, uncompetitive plants from last century – and saddling families with their high costs and pollution.
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“Has everyone been fed?’’ North Carolina, one year after Hurricane Helene
September 25, 2025
Hurricane Helene ravaged proudly independent mountain towns in North Carolina in September 2024. While local heroes work to exhaustion to make their families and communities whole, aid promised by President Trump has been slow to arrive.
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Trump EPA Political Appointees Scrambled to Offer Free Pass to Pollute
September 25, 2025
| Richard Yates, Clean Power Attorney
Trump Administration political appointees with ties to industry orchestrated the process to invite industrial pollution sources to request pass to pollute
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EDF and Partners Vigorously Oppose Trump Administration Attacks on Endangerment Finding and Clean Car Standards
September 23, 2025
EDF filed comments strongly opposing U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s proposed repeals of the Endangerment Finding and Clean Cars and Trucks Standards
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EPA’s Proposed Changes to Chemical Risk Evaluations Threaten Americans’ Health
September 22, 2025
| Maria Doa, Senior Director, Chemicals Policy
The U.S. EPA proposed altering the way it conducts risk evaluations for chemicals already in use under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
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Court Rules Secret Group That Wrote “Climate Science Report” is Not Exempt from Federal Law
September 17, 2025
| Erin Murphy, Director & Sr. Attorney, Clean Air & Energy Markets
The Trump administration’s “Climate Working Group” created a widely discredited report at the center of its attempt to undo EPA’s Endangerment Finding.
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Trump EPA Proposal Would Eliminate Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
September 12, 2025
| Edwin LaMair, Senior Attorney, U.S. Legal & Regulatory
For well over a decade, the program has given information that we need to protect people from climate change and all its ensuing damages.
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4 ways the EPA may no longer be able to protect you
September 11, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to protect you from deadly pollution, but under the Trump administration, that protection is vanishing. Here are four threats you need to know about.
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Federal Court Hears Arguments about Secret Report that Trump Administration Used in Attack on Climate Protections
September 11, 2025
| Erin Murphy, Director & Sr. Attorney, Clean Air & Energy Markets
The Climate Working Group was convened in secrecy and created a clandestine report now being used in attacks on the Endangerment Finding.
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Climate change has cost me. Why does the EPA say it’s not dangerous?
September 10, 2025
The Trump administration’s efforts to deny the dangers of climate change fly in the face of reality, says writer Allyn West, who lived through severe, climate-boosted flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston.
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We’re going to fight for a better future with everything we’ve got. People want less pollution, good jobs and healthy kids, no matter who is in office.
Amanda Leland
Executive Director, EDF
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