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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EPA Administrator Zeldin Delays Commonsense Methane Pollution Protections
July 29, 2025
| Fred Krupp, President
Action would lead to more energy waste, climate-damaging methane emissions, and other hazardous pollution in our air from leaks, venting and flaring.
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NEW: U.S. Government’s Own Analysis Shows Repealing Tailpipe Pollution Standards Will Sharply Increase Gasoline Prices
July 29, 2025
| Vickie Patton, General Counsel
New federal analysis shows EPA's proposed repeal of the tailpipe emissions standards will sharply increase gasoline prices and dangerous pollution.
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Trump Administration Tries to Eliminate Endangerment Finding, Clean Car and Clean Truck Standards
July 29, 2025
| Fred Krupp, President
If there are no enforced limits on pollution, you get more of it, making life more expensive and even more dangerous.
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Trump EPA chief tries to eliminate major environmental protections
July 28, 2025
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has moved to eliminate major clean air and climate protections, even as millions of people are threatened by dangerous weather and air pollution being made worse by climate change.
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The Trump administration is wiping out scientific data on climate change. The data heroes are ready.
July 27, 2025
While the Trump administration is erasing critical health and environmental data from government websites, a group of scientists, archivists and volunteers is racing to rescue it.
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Trump administration renews attacks on science
July 24, 2025
Research facilities that study how to protect people from pollution are being shuttered by the Trump administration as it moves to weaken environmental protections.
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Public Advocacy Groups Take Trump Administration to Court for Illegal Coal Plant Extension
July 24, 2025
| Ted Kelly, Director and Lead Counsel, U.S. Clean Energy
Nine public advocacy groups filed a petition for review at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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The hidden factor behind your high electric bill
July 23, 2025
If your electric bill has gone up in the last few years, you can blame hotter temperatures, climate disasters like hurricanes and wildfires, and obstacles that are delaying putting more clean energy onto the grid.
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Trump Administration Reportedly Planning Widespread Attacks on Our Pollution Safeguards
July 23, 2025
| Fred Krupp, President
The Trump administration's actions, all at once, suggest a scorched earth campaign against our health, our safety and our planet.
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Climate change is a danger everywhere
July 23, 2025
Where is climate change endangering our health and safety? Millions of Americans have already been harmed. Most see that the danger is everywhere.
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Friday Night Firings of EPA Scientists Endanger the Health and Safety of Americans
July 19, 2025
| Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities
The work done by EPA’s scientists has led to Americans living longer, healthier lives because of cleaner air and water.
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President Trump Gives More Coal Plants, Large Industrial Facilities a Pass to Pollute
July 18, 2025
| Vickie Patton, General Counsel
President Trump signed proclamations that seek to exempt some of the nation’s most dangerous industrial facilities and coal plants from pollution laws
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Clean energy cuts in Trump administration’s ‘big bill’ will hurt your wallet and health
July 17, 2025
The “big, beautiful bill” will hurt jobs, the environment and your finances, says political affairs expert Joanna Slaney.
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EDF Experts Urge Trump EPA to Protect Public Health from Mercury, Toxic Air Pollution
July 11, 2025
| Richard Yates, Clean Power Attorney
“The American public deserves to have air, water, and food that is clean and free of harmful mercury contamination."
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Blog post
The science is clear on the dangers of planet-heating pollution
July 11, 2025
| Lisa Dilling, Associate Chief Scientist
This post was co-authored by EDF Climate Scientist Fiona Lo and was updated on Aug. 7, 2025. The Trump EPA is trying to reverse the Endangerment Finding – the science-based determination that climate pollution harms public health and welfare. That’s in spite of mountains of scientific evidence confirming that climate pollution is driving extreme weather …
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EDF Strongly Opposes Repeal of Power Plant Pollution Standards at Public Hearing
July 8, 2025
"The standards protect the public health and welfare from the dangers of power plant air pollution, as Congress required under the Clean Air Act."
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Congressmen Claiming Secret Assurances from President to Flout New Law, Undermine Lower Cost Clean Electricity for Americans
July 7, 2025
| Joanna Slaney, Vice President for Political and Government Affairs
Recent press reports quote Members of Congress touting secret, eleventh-hour promises from the President that would further undermine clean energy credits.
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Blog post
President Trump’s new tax law undermines clean energy when the U.S. needs it most
July 4, 2025
| Joanna Slaney, Vice President for Political and Government Affairs
(This post was written by EDF Vice President for Political and Government Affairs Joanna Slaney) President Trump just signed a deeply unpopular law passed by congressional Republicans — one that could thwart unprecedented American progress on clean energy and transportation. New polling shows that 67% of voters oppose the bill when they learn what’s in it.
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President Trump Signs Bill That Will Raise Energy Costs, Increase Pollution
July 4, 2025
| Joanna Slaney, Vice President for Political and Government Affairs
By sidelining the largest and fastest-growing sources of new electricity, President Trump is clinging to an energy policy from the 1950s.
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Senate Bill Will Raise Household Energy Prices, Take Away Jobs
July 1, 2025
| Joanna Slaney, Vice President for Political and Government Affairs
Senate Republicans passed a bill that will raise household utility bills, take away job opportunities and threaten people’s health with more pollution.
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Staff perspective
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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