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By Morgan Rote, Pete Budden and Joe Williams The first international hydrogen standard is poised to shape national hydrogen policies, but in its current form it overlooks critical science on electricity sourcing, methane leakage and hydrogen’s own warming impacts — risking the credibility of clean hydrogen as a true climate solution. To ensure hydrogen delivers …

“California is doubling down on cheaper, cleaner electricity and curbing climate pollution while DC digs in on failed policies that fuel higher [...]"

Farmers and ranchers around the world face increased heatwaves, droughts and heavy rainfall, making it harder to grow livestock and crops. This means less financial security for farm families and, globally, bigger threats to people’s access to nutrition. Methane, a super-pollutant greenhouse gas, worsens the weather impacts farmers are facing. And livestock farming itself is …

The Permian Methane Analysis Project (PermianMAP) is an Environmental Defense Fund initiative that combines established data collection methods with state-of-the-art technologies to pinpoint, measure and report on oil and gas methane emissions in the Permian Basin.

The Permian Methane Analysis Project (PermianMAP) is an Environmental Defense Fund initiative that combines established data collection methods with state-of-the-art technologies to pinpoint, measure and report on oil and gas methane emissions in the Permian Basin.

When red snapper populations started crashing, fisherman Keith “Buddy” Guindon stopped ignoring environmentalists and started collaborating with them.

The report is called Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare.

The Trump administration’s “Climate Working Group” created a widely discredited report at the center of its attempt to undo EPA’s Endangerment Finding.

Wetlands loss in North Carolina (1985–2023) led to $43M in flood damage. EDF study shows wetlands reduce flood losses, valued per acre via insurance claims.

By Elizabeth Montoya-LaPorte, Intern, Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds Virginia faces a diverse set of flood risks, with sea level rise on the eastern coast, landslides exasperating flood risk in the west and more intense and frequent storms throughout the Commonwealth. Between 2020 and 2060, the number of buildings exposed to an extreme coastal flood …

Nearly 40 years ago, the world came together to solve a huge environmental problem and protect people from harm — despite denial, conflict and shifting political winds. It’s worth remembering how we got it done, and why.  

EDF report outlines a practical pathway for insurers to transform post-disaster recovery into an opportunity for resilience, helping build safer, more climate-ready communities, and offering policymakers a model to stabilize coverage for the future.

EDF analysis details how insurers can use endorsements to help households rebuild stronger, safer, lower-carbon homes after climate-driven disasters

“This is a huge win for families on a budget and for climate action."

“Today’s vote reaffirms California’s commitment to a thriving economy with bold climate action."

For well over a decade, the program has given information that we need to protect people from climate change and all its ensuing damages.

Can driving an EV save you money? Do EVs work in cold weather? In this Q&A, EDF expert Neda Deylami answers common questions about electric vehicles.

This blog was co-authored by Vanya Mehta from WELL Labs. Water-saving solutions behave differently across India, depending on a region’s hydrogeology and land use patterns. An intervention that is successful in one landscape may be a failure in another. By nature, water is dynamic, and, with the added variability of climate change, difficult to predict.

It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day. It’s a new energy task force in North Carolina, and EDF is honored to have a role in this state initiative to meet the challenge of rising electricity demand. The post A New Energy Task Force for North Carolina: Putting Affordability First appeared first on Climate 411.

The Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to protect you from deadly pollution, but under the Trump administration, that protection is vanishing. Here are four threats you need to know about.

The Climate Working Group was convened in secrecy and created a clandestine report now being used in attacks on the Endangerment Finding.

Image: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute  By: Kristin Kleisner and Sarah Swain  The mesopelagic zone, one of the most important parts of the ocean’s most important climate-regulating system, is under threat just as we’re beginning to understand its true value. With IUCN members preparing to vote on Motion 035 this October, we have a narrow …

EDF's novel air pollution tool is expanding for the first time to the state of São Paulo.

The Trump administration’s efforts to deny the dangers of climate change fly in the face of reality, says writer Allyn West, who lived through severe, climate-boosted flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston.

“Lawmakers must pass Assembly Bill 1207 which reauthorizes and strengthens California’s cap-and-trade program."