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Statement by Jill Duggan, Executive Director, Environmental Defense Fund

Zero-emission solutions for trucks and buses have arrived. But converting fleets from fossil fuels to electricity will require smart electricity pricing to ensure that new demand from these power-hungry vehicles doesn’t break the grid, and that costs remain manageable for fleet owners, utilities and all customers.

New paper from EDF and Rockefeller Asset Management offers investor engagement guidance on methane emissions from non-operated assets.

Investor engagement guidance from EDF and Rockefeller Asset Management on methane emissions from non-operated assets in the oil and gas industry.

California recently made history when it committed to making every car across the state electric, with a specific goal for electrifying all operating trucks and buses by 2045.

Information about past and projected impacts of climate change in Minnesota.

Information about past and projected climate change impacts in North Carolina.

Statement from Sergio Sanchez calls for enhanced transparency on green and blue finance streams to ensure a sustainable, equitable and resilient post-pandemic recovery.

The OpenET project incorporates use cases to highlight the important ways that more accessible evapotranspiration (ET) data can encourage and benefit sustainable land and water management and drive greater adoption.

Statement of EDF Lead Attorney Peter Zalzal – October 8, 2020

A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit will hear legal challenges from EDF and a broad coalition.

Statement by Eric Holst on California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order setting a goal to conserve 30% of the state’s land and coastal waters.

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.