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New guide provides invaluable insights for food companies seeking a more strategic approach to drive climate impact.

A new interactive map can help you identify potential chemical exposures in your neighborhood.

This collection of blog posts by EDF experts on flood resilience is featured in EDF’s Growing Returns blog, which focuses on building resilient land and water systems that allow people and nature to prosper in a changing climate.

Developed in partnership with the African American Mayors Association (AAMA) and Elemental Accelerator, the Toolkit for Local Climate Action is a roadmap for developing robust climate action plans and seizing funding opportunities to address critical infrastructure and economic needs.

Climate United secured $6.97 billion, which it will use to mobilize financing and private capital and accelerate market activity.

From PTSD to anxiety and grief, climate change is taking a toll on people’s mental health. Here’s an expert take on this growing crisis, and tips on how to cope. 

Climate change is making flooding from rivers, rain and the ocean more destructive. We’re bringing natural flooding solutions to communities along the East and Gulf coasts of the U.S., the Mississippi River area and the Caribbean.

[View the English version of this post] La próxima vez que te encuentres buscando direcciones en tu teléfono móvil, mueve el mapa hacia el centro de California y haz zoom. Activa la capa de satélite. Lo que verás es un desconcertante mosaico. Un inmenso tablero de ajedrez marrón y verde, dividido en rectángulos, cortado por …

A Supreme Court decision scaled back federal protections in Florida, now only protecting wetlands with a “continuous surface connection” to federal waters.

By Rod Fujita and Kristin Kleisner  To mitigate climate change, sea level rise, and other environmental problems, some experts are looking to nature-based solutions. But which solutions are the most impactful when it comes to sequestering carbon? And what do we still need to learn to improve our scientific understanding of nature-based solutions?   We co-authored …

Next time you find yourself looking up driving directions on your phone, scroll over to central California and zoom out a bit. Turn on the satellite layer. What you’ll see is a mindboggling patchwork. A massive brown and green checkerboard, cut up in rectangles, sliced by highways, besieged by a ring of arid foothills. This …

North Carolina lawmakers passed a provision in last year’s Farm Act that prevented development only in wetlands protected by the federal government.

A coalition of conservation groups across the Colorado River Basin submitted the Cooperative Conservation Alternative to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Statement of EDF Executive Director Amanda Leland

The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized standards that will slash climate and smog-forming pollution from new heavy-duty vehicles like freight trucks, garbage trucks, and school buses in model years 2027 through 2032.

By Abimarie Otaño Cruz The results of the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transitions to 100% Renewable Energy Study (PR100) contain an important conclusion: “Puerto Rico can make a feasible transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050, but significant improvements and investments in the system, guided by meaningful community participation, are necessary to achieve this.” …

Today, the state of Washington took a big step toward linking its cap-and-invest program with the carbon markets in California and Quebec, a move that could boost climate action and create a more stable, more predictable market for all. Governor Inslee signed E2SB 6058 into law, which will further align Washington’s program with the joint …

This blog was co-authored by Maureen Lackner (Senior Manager of Economics and Policy Analysis, Environmental Defense Fund) and Lauren Beatty (High Meadows Postdoctoral Economics Fellow, Environmental Defense Fund). Climate change is a pressing issue, partly fueled by methane: a greenhouse gas responsible for about 30% of today’s global warming. Reducing methane emissions will slow down …

Statement of EDF President Fred Krupp – March 28, 2024

Methane is a potent climate pollutant. To help speed reductions, EDF scientists have conducted extensive research on methane and its impact on the climate.

For hydrogen to be an effective climate solution, we must produce it cleanly and use it wisely. EDF is helping make sure hydrogen infrastructure is built the right way, benefiting the climate, communities and people’s health. We’re working to prevent leaks and raising awareness that the best uses of hydrogen are in places where clean electricity from renewable sources can’t do the job alone.

The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on Chevron. What is it and why could it change how federal regulations are enforced? General Counsel Vickie Patton answers important questions about this bombshell case.

As temperatures get hotter and hotter from climate change, the cherry blossom trees have been blooming earlier and earlier.

Ambitious nature-based climate solutions programs could deliver benefits for biodiversity, communities, and the climate. Unfortunately, a lack of evidence about specific benefits from specific strategies prevents researchers and policymakers from confidently prescribing when and where they should be used.

Coalition of environmental groups support national efforts to reduce methane waste on public lands.