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Public comments submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Technical Advisory Body on emission units criteria applications for the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) program, June 2020.

Statement of Environmental Defense Fund General Counsel Vickie Patton – October 7, 2020

Water supplies are becoming scarcer as a result of more severe droughts supercharged by climate change.

Statement of Ben Ratner, Senior Director, EDF+Business

EDF statement from Colin Leyden, Director, Regulatory and Legislative Affairs

A new analysis for UK Clean Air Day from Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe) finds nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution was 40% lower than expected across London during the initial COVID-19 lockdown. But how do we know about pollution that didn’t happen? We used a machine learning model to predict what the concentration of NO2 …

Surveys show that women own or co-own nearly half the farmland in the Midwest but are often under-represented in leadership positions, including in policymaking bodies, financial institutions, and other agricultural agencies and institutions.

Discussion of how California, EDF, and state, private sector and environmental allies are fighting back against Trump 's rollback of climate protections.

EDF vows to oppose rollback of vital health protections.

EDF, long-time champion of increased monitoring in New England, calls for the target to be met.

EDF director of working lands, Maggie Monast, will testify on the financial risks that climate change poses to America’s agriculture sector.

The Climate Authenticity Meter rates how companies and industry groups’ lobbying activities support or obstruct progress on climate policy.

EDF is hosting a series of conversations with environmental justice experts who are leading the way to understand environmental disparities, their systemic causes and effective strategies to create change.

EDF partnered with leading experts to develop a law review article, published in the Journal of Environmental Law, that takes a deep dive into the relationship between California's SGMA and groundwater rights.

EDF is partnering with the Houston and Harris County to expand pollution monitoring capability and identify facilities that most threaten public health.

Statement by Eric Schwaab, senior vice president at Environmental Defense Fund Oceans program, on the reintroduction of the AQUAA 2.0 Act.

Joint Statement from Environmental Defense Fund and Pennsylvania Environmental Council

EDF Statement from Jon Goldstein, Director of Regulatory & Legislative Affairs, Energy

EDF Statement from President Fred Krupp

EDF joins a group of organizations demanding that the agency and industry evaluate cumulative health effects of classes of related food chemicals.

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

Statement by EDF President Fred Krupp on Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

EDF statement from Zhang Jianyu, Vice President, China, as China is takes bold steps to address its contribution to climate change.

Morgan Stanley is the first major U.S. bank to pledge to net zero financed emissions by 2050, but it won’t be the last.

Flooding caused by these wetter, more intense storms is devastating lives and costing billions. Is there a way out?