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Major new federal pipeline safety legislation introduced today will bring about dramatic new environmental and public safety benefits for all Americans.

There is strong scientific consensus on the urgent need to rebuild agricultural soil carbon. That’s the topline message of a comment published this week in the journal Nature Sustainability.

This morning S.2346, the Fishery Failures: Urgently Needed Disaster Declarations Act, passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee on a voice vote after several amendments were accepted.

This morning S.2346, the Fishery Failures: Urgently Needed Disaster Declarations Act, passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee on a voice vote after several amendments were accepted.

EDF, Allies Press for Transparency from Automakers Siding with Trump in Clean Car Litigation

Nearly two dozen national public health, environmental, conservation, and clean energy advocacy groups released the following joint statement in support of the 100% Clean Economy Act

According to two reports released today by Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDFE) and Green Alliance in conjunction with Frontier Economics and Element Energy, with targeted action, lower-income households could save nearly £350 million in total every year, with cost savings reaching £3,000-£5,000 per household over the time of owning a car.

With the US administration turning its back on the Paris Climate Agreement, demands for corporate climate leadership are mounting. At a time when executives should be filling the leadership gap, too many CEOs continue to be trapped by short-term, profit-only thinking.

Continued commitment to the Paris accord is critical — but it’s also only one part of what's needed to fill the climate leadership void.

Attn: Doc. No. EPA-HQ-OAR- 2018-0279 Re: Request for an Extension on Comment Period for EPA’s Draft Policy Assessment for the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards, 84 Fed. Reg. 58,711 (Nov. 1, 2019)

Colorado voters approved a ballot measure today to legalize and tax sports betting that will raise up to $29 million a year for critical water projects.

It’s good news that the Senate has a new forum with the potential to advance bipartisan climate solutions.

EDFE policy brief on methane in the European Union

EDFE policy brief on methane in the European Union

Judge – EPA Delay on Dangerous Landfill Pollution is an Attempt to “Sidestep” the Court’s Order

EDF experts outline opportunities for the EU to set clear policies for cutting methane emissions from all natural gas

The Trump administration announced today it has formally notified the United Nations that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The withdrawal would take effect on Nov. 4, 2020.

Statement Of Environmental Defense Fund In Opposition To Joint Proposal In Case 19-g-0066

EDF experts outline opportunities for the EU to set clear policies for reducing methane emissions from all EU imported, traded and publicly used gas.

EDF Sues Interior, NOAA, NASA for Failure to Release Public Records about Trump Administration Attacks on Climate Science

EDF statement from David Kelly, Senior Manager, North Carolina Political Affairs

This webinar recaps our most recent Science Day on genetic engineering and synthetic biology.

General Motors, Toyota and Fiat Chrysler sided with the Trump administration’s attack on states’ authority to carry out their own vehicle pollution standards.

An online report with greenhouse gas flux data from rice and non-rice cropping systems from four agro-ecological regions in India. Published by Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stressed EPA’s heavy burden to justify its roll back of America’s Clean Car Standards in an opinion issued this morning.