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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Challenge to the Latest Illegal Extension of J.H. Campbell Coal Plant
September 8, 2025
| Ted Kelly, Director and Lead Counsel, U.S. Clean Energy
The Trump Administration forces the aging, dirty coal power plant to continue burning coal even as the electricity is not needed.
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EDF Responds to “Irredeemably Flawed” Report That Trump Administration is Using in Effort to Eliminate Vital Climate Protections
September 4, 2025
| Lisa Dilling, Associate Chief Scientist
Climate Working Group report has been denounced by scientists whose research it cites for using scientific data inaccurately and misrepresenting findings.
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EDF Joins Concerned Americans to Oppose Trump EPA Delay of Commonsense Protections from Methane Pollution
September 2, 2025
| Grace Smith, Senior Attorney, U.S. Legal & Regulatory
The delay “increases risks posed by climate change and toxic air pollution.”
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The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program is back on the road
August 21, 2025
| Dakoury Godo-Solo, Project Manager, Electric Vehicle Charging Systems
After being illegally withheld, the NEVI program is again moving forward but DOT’s inadequate provisional guidance will not support effective and successful charger deployment. EDF recommends that as states resubmit and deploy their plans, they lean into the previous administration’s stronger guidance wherever feasible and legally possible. It has been a tumultuous year for …
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Trump Administration Issues Another Mandate to Extend Expensive, Polluting Michigan Coal Plant Past Retirement
August 21, 2025
| Ted Kelly, Director and Lead Counsel, U.S. Clean Energy
Yesterday, the Trump administration issued another illegal emergency order for the J.H. Campbell power plant in Michigan.
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Memo: New Polling Shows Zeldin Approval Collapse
August 21, 2025
| Joanna Slaney, Vice President for Political and Government Affairs
New polling reveals Lee Zeldin’s standing with New Yorkers has collapsed as his record as EPA Administrator comes under scrutiny.
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Do your kids have a clean ride to school? Here’s how to get one — on an electric school bus.
August 20, 2025
Diesel school buses expose kids to harmful pollution daily. Electric buses don’t. That's why many parents and school leaders are determined to shift to EV buses, even as the Trump administration makes it harder.
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EDF Experts Join Hundreds of Americans at Virtual Forum, “Vigorously” Oppose Trump EPA Attacks on Endangerment Finding, Clean Car and Truck Standards
August 20, 2025
| Andy Su, Attorney, Transportation
EPA’s proposal to rescind the Endangerment Finding is a reckless act that has no basis in law, no basis in science, and is an attack on key protections.
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Groups Ask Court to Block Trump EPA Rule That Delays Protections Against Oil and Gas Methane Pollution
August 18, 2025
Delayed protections keep dangerous pollution out of our air and reduce wasted energy from oil and gas leaks, venting and flaring.
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Trump Administration’s New Tax Credit Guidance Is “Another Senseless Attack on Clean Energy”
August 15, 2025
| Vickie Patton, General Counsel
The guidance places significant new obstacles on solar and wind projects that are helping meet America’s growing energy needs.
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EDF, UCS Ask Court to Enjoin Trump Administration’s Brazenly Unlawful Use of Corrupt “Science” Report
August 15, 2025
| Erin Murphy, Director & Sr. Attorney, Clean Air & Energy Markets
Environmental Defense Fund and Union of Concerned Scientists filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in Federal District Court.
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Independent Report Finds that the Trump Administration’s Orders to Keep Coal-fired Power Plants Running Could Cost Consumers between $3-6 Billion a Year
August 14, 2025
| Ted Kelly, Director and Lead Counsel, U.S. Clean Energy
Utility customers will pay the steep cost of the Department of Energy’s sham “emergency” orders to prevent coal-fired power plants from retiring as planned
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EPA’s environmental rollback is expected to raise gas prices
August 13, 2025
Environmental Defense Fund's Stephanie Jones explains what's at stake if the EPA's Endangerment Finding is repealed.
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EDF Strongly Opposes Trump Administration Proposals to Eliminate Protections for Air Pollution from Power Plants
August 13, 2025
EDF and allies filed comments objecting to EPA's proposals to repeal the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and power plant carbon pollution standards.
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Your health, your wallet, your future: Americans can’t afford EPA rollbacks
August 13, 2025
This blog was written by: Aurora Barone, manager of economics and policy; Talley Burley, manager, climate risk and insurance; Jesse Gourevitch, economist; Abhinand Krishnashankar, senior economics and policy analyst; Jeremy Proville, director, economics; and Luis Fernández Intriago, economist. The Clean Air Act, a landmark piece of U.S. legislation, has quietly been protecting not just our lungs, ...
The post Your Health, Your Wallet, Your Future: Americans Can’t Afford EPA Rollbacks appeared first on Market Forces.
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EDF, UCS File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Secret Convening of Climate Skeptics, Use of Their Hidden “Science” Report in Attempt to Overturn Endangerment Finding
August 12, 2025
| Erin Murphy, Director & Sr. Attorney, Clean Air & Energy Markets
EDF and Union of Concerned Scientists are challenging the secret formation and hidden activities of the “Climate Working Group and its report.
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“Advanced recycling” is a toxic scam — now the EPA is turning a blind eye to some of the most toxic chemicals it produces
August 4, 2025
| Maria Doa, Senior Director, Chemicals Policy
What’s new: Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew a proposed rule covering 18 new chemicals, which would have paused industry efforts to turn toxic oils from plastic waste into fuel until the agency could review their health risks. Companies make these oils through pyrolysis, a controversial process that essentially burns plastic waste—often full ...
The post “Advanced recycling” is a toxic scam — now the EPA is turning a blind eye to some of the most toxic chemicals it produces first appeared on EDF Health.
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Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Trump EPA’s Delay of Protections Against Oil and Gas Methane Pollution
July 31, 2025
| Rosalie Winn, Senior Director and Lead Counsel, Methane and Clean Air Policy
EPA’s own fact sheet notes that this delay will lead to more pollution.
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How the Trump administration is obstructing clean energy – and why it raises your costs
July 31, 2025
| Ted Kelly, Director and Lead Counsel, U.S. Clean Energy
Last updated August 20, 2025. Electricity prices are rising across the U.S. Demand for electricity is going up for the first time in 20 years. And more extreme weather and heat waves are causing blackouts. Yet instead of expanding access to low-cost, reliable clean power, the Trump administration is making the problem worse. Since Day …
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Do you live near a facility with a free pass to pollute more?
July 29, 2025
Find out what’s contaminating your community.
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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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