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If you watched any major televised sporting events this year, from the NCAA Final Four to the Super Bowl, you saw ad after ad showcasing American auto companies’ new electric cars. It’s proof that electric vehicles (EVs) are ready for a mainstream market – you don’t pay Will Ferrell and LeBron James to promote your …

"Our lawmakers should work together to provide all Americans with cleaner, healthier air" statement of Vickie Patton, General Counsel for EDF.

Updated EDF analysis reveals magnitude of methane emissions, waste on Navajo Nation

To eradicate health inequities and meet the WHO guidelines, EDF argues that city and national leaders need to transform UK urban road networks and provide cleaner ways for people to get around.

EDF's letter to the USDA to encourage the voluntary adoption of climate-smart agriculture and forestry practices and equitable access to USDA’s programs and resources

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp on Presidential Speech – April 28, 2021

Statement of Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund

This decade is our last best chance to avert the worst impacts of climate change. It's clear we now have a president who knows that.

Why both sides of the aisle, along with farmers and environmentalists, see such potential for agricultural climate solutions. The post 3 ways the Growing Climate Solutions Act will help farmers and rural communities thrive first appeared on Growing Returns.

Navajo Nation Methane CRA Support

New analysis from EDF highlights the benefit of swift action on a potent greenhouse gas and underscores dangers if solutions are slow or delayed.

As 75% of Texas faces drought, two bills in the state Legislature can advance more sustainable and equitable management of vital water resources. The post As Texas drought worsens, two bills can advance sustainable, equitable groundwater management first appeared on Growing Returns.

This blog was originally posted on EDF’s Growing Returns. Iowa currently finds itself in a “Goldilocks climate,” with just the right measure and timing of humidity, rainfall and heat that help make the state a national leader in corn and soybean production. However, new research shows that climate change threatens to upset this balance. Small …

The LEAF coalition is driving progress at the speed and scale that the climate crisis demands by investing to protect tropical forests.

This is an important step toward restoring states’ long-standing authority to address pollution from cars and SUVs.

TNC CRA Support Letter

EDF Statement from Nathaniel Keohane, Senior Vice President for Climate

EDF Statement from Katelyn Roedner Sutter, Senior Manager for U.S. Climate

By Michael Colvin and Lauren Navarro A new bill making its way through the California Legislature has the potential to help accelerate the much-needed transition to electric vehicles. The law, Senate Bill 372, would create state programs that help owners of medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses pay for the costs of replacing their diesel-fueled …

Cleaning up pollution from the U.S. trucking industry is an urgent need for the country. For the past decade, the Department of Energy’s SuperTruck Program has helped showcase solutions for a cleaner future. Now Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has announced a new generation of the DOE SuperTruck program – SuperTruck 3 – that will focus …

By Alexia Juárez, catch monitor, Golfo de Santa Clara, Mexico For me, the ocean means hope. As a child, one of the things I enjoyed most was going with my grandfather to seafood processing plants where I would watch many women working. I also cherish the image of going out to sea with my father …

Tom Neltner, Chemicals Policy Director. The FDA’s critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic has brought intense interest in whom President Biden will nominate to lead the agency as its new commissioner. While COVID-19 is the priority, the FDA obviously has many vital other responsibilities. Though it doesn’t get that much attention, one of the important …

Tom Neltner, J.D. is the Chemicals Policy Director. This month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its “Closer to Zero” action plan to reduce exposure to heavy metals in foods for babies and young children. The plan, released in response to a recent House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform report and the introduction …

Sam Lovell, Communications Manager.  “How many of you know, when you send your child to school, the fountain they’re drinking out of is not fed by a lead pipe?” That stark question was posed by President Biden in a briefing following the announcement of the American Jobs Plan. The President’s historic infrastructure package includes $45 …

EDF statement from Derek Walker, VP for U.S. Climate regarding the Biden-Harris administration’s step taken towards transitioning fossil fuel communities.