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This blog was co-authored by Lulu August, State Climate Policy Intern This month marks five years since New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) was signed into law. At the time of its enactment in 2019, the groundbreaking climate law set New York apart as a national and global climate leader. Indeed,

The emerging hydrogen market presents opportunities and risks for investors. These key principles and due diligence questions in this EDF report offer a guide.

The emerging hydrogen market presents opportunities and risks for investors. These key principles and due diligence questions offer a guide.

Environmental Defense Fund plans to go to court in support of EPA’s actions to strengthen the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program – a vital source of public information about dangerous climate pollution from significant sources, including methane pollution from landfills.

EDF Statement by Ted Kelly, Director and Lead Counsel, U.S. Clean Energy

EDF is working to build support among ocean, coastal, and seafood stakeholders and policy makers to establish a rigorous, science-based environmental and social regulatory framework that provides a predictable environment for business investment, protects ocean health, and supports equitable outcomes for coastal communities and individuals working throughout the seafood industry.

By Helen Spence-Jackson The EU’s hydrogen ambitions are facing a reality check. Despite an ambitious strategy launched in 2020 and ongoing work to establish a comprehensive policy framework, recent forecasts suggest hydrogen deployment is lagging behind initial targets. However, this moment offers an opportunity for reflection and provides valuable lessons not just for Europe, but …

Watch this TED Talk by EDF’s Millie Chu Baird to learn more about this groundbreaking project.

Analysis by leading energy analytics firm EQ Research, commissioned by EDF, shows that if Duke Energy succeeds at getting its current plan approved by the NC Utilities Commission the company’s excessive reliance on gas-powered plants could come with a high price tag for customers.

EDF Statement from Will Scott, Southeast Climate and Clean Energy Director

A federal climate law is helping patients use solar power to cut their electric bills and improve their health. 

By Magdalen Sullivan & Kate Roberts As the U.S. oil and gas industry expands, the vast network of largely unregulated pipelines that transport unprocessed natural gas —known as gathering pipelines — has crept closer and closer to residential communities. Most gathering pipelines are currently exempt from regular inspection, which means that leaks and other problems …

Statement by EDF President Fred Krupp

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously denied an attempt by Republican Attorneys General and fossil fuel industry parties to block EPA’s protections limiting climate pollution from power plants.

European banks face significant risk from oil and gas methane emissions in their portfolios. Our recommendations can help banks manage them.

This guide from EDF provides an overview of the methane regulatory landscape and examines a suite of new and revised rules that address oil and gas methane emissions and waste in the United States.

Methane management is increasingly factored into the valuation of oil and gas assets. Investors need a clear picture of updated US methane rules.

Belching bovines are major emitters of methane in agriculture. A new seaweed food additive could help decrease cows' burps and therefore lower their methane emissions

As the world faces growing climate impacts and shocks, the need for a more sustainable and resilient food system has never been more urgent. Last year, the Kansas wheat harvest, known as a bellwether for global agriculture, hit a 60-year low due to severe drought. Record-breaking floods decimated European harvests in the same year.   Climate-driven …

Today a coalition including a local business and three conservation groups filed motion to intervene as defendants in Jurisich Oysters, LLC v. USACE to ensure the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project moves forward to provide critical community protection and vital ecosystem benefits.

Statement from Ari Pottens, Senior Campaign Manager, Canada

The challenge is clear: if tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank fourth, only behind China, the US, and India in emissions. However, the solution is even clearer: these same forests can provide 23% of the cost-effective climate mitigation needed before 2030, if the right economic incentives are in place.[1] Despite numerous pledges, forest …

The Wittmans are using sustainable farming practices today to ensure their family farm endures changing climate conditions. 

The Canadian government is likely overlooking an important source of climate pollution. Surface casing vent flow and gas migration (types of underground leakage from oil and gas wells) has the potential to leak a lot of methane, but according to new research, neither governments nor companies know how much.

This week the House marked up five funding bills that would dramatically cut funding for federal agencies that protect our air and water and are tasked with reducing the pollution impacting our health, our climate and the severity and frequency of extreme weather, like Hurricane Beryl. House Republicans’ funding bills propose slashing EPA funding to 1998 levels, Department of Energy clean energy programs by 43% and NOAA funding by 11%, and collectively include over 50 harmful environmental provisions that do not belong in funding bills.