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Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp – January 13, 2021

The vast majority of financial institutions that serve agriculture — one of the sectors most vulnerable to climate change — have yet to take meaningful action.

Health and environmental groups are asking a court to reject the Trump administration’s just-finalized Censored Science rule because it threatens the health and safety of Americans and was imposed with an unduly hasty – and illegal – timeframe.

EDF Statement from Elizabeth Gore, Senior Vice President, Political Affairs

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp – January 6, 2021

Full Methods from 2021 Colorado Emissions Gap Analyses, taken from the Polis administration (in the 2019 Colorado GHG Emissions Inventory and the "Roadmap"), Resources for the Future, M.J. Bradley & Associates, and NRDC, Sierra Club, Evolved Energy Research, and GridLab.

Statement of EDF Senior Attorney Ben Levitan – January 5, 2021

The China National Emissions Trading Scheme is now open for business after the system’s core pieces have been put in place.

EDF released targeted ads to support its Power Up, America campaign, a major effort to promote clean transportation and clean energy infrastructure.

As national director of Green For All, Michelle Romero is bringing together unlikely coalitions to find new solutions for reducing poverty while building a clean-energy economy. Our conversation with her is Part I of a two-part series from EDF's Degrees podcast on environmental justice.

While the Environmental Protection Agency’s Rule on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Aircraft acknowledges the dangers to public health and the environment posed by aviation’s global warming pollution, by EPA’s own admission, it does nothing to reduce emissions from this key sector.

In this bonus episode of EDF's Degrees podcast, the team gifts you a few recommendations: things that have inspired us, fed our souls, stretched our brains, or made us laugh over the course of this strange year.

With unhealthy levels of smog, today’s decision by the Trump administration to leave inadequate protections in place risk Americans' health and well-being.

EDF’s proposal would help Colorado reach statutory climate and air pollution requirements

A federal appeals court agreed with the Environmental Protection Agency that the San Antonio, Texas area has unhealthy levels of smog.

Request for rulemaking on amendments to Regulation 22 to add Colorado Greenhouse Gas Program

Requested amendments to Regulation 22 to add Colorado Greenhouse Gas Program

Request for rulemaking on amendments to regulation 22 to add Colorado Greenhouse Gas Program.

Request for Rulemaking on Amendments to Regulation 22 to Add Colorado Greenhouse Gas Program

Learn about our organization, staff, mission and achievements of 2020.

Today, the EPA released its overdue revision of the 1991 Lead and Copper Rule, ignoring extensive evidence highlighting major flaws.

Three states and the District of Columbia collaborated to develop regulations designed to reduce climate pollution from the transportation sector.

Congress will consider a bipartisan year-end omnibus spending package that will make major investments in numerous Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) climate, energy, and conservation priority areas.

EDF Statement from Jon Goldstein, Director Regulatory and Legislative Affairs

This first in a series of workshops on California’s first open-source water accounting and trading platform explains how the platform works and its accounting, trading and scenario planning features. It features speakers from EDF, Rosedale-Rio Bravo, Sitka and Olsson.