Environmental Defense Praises Passage Of Climate Change Budget Amendment
Environmental Defense today praised U.S. Senate leaders for supporting a budget amendment to commit $4.5 billion over 10 years to fund climate change programs. Among other things, this amendment, which passed on a voice vote, ensures that the budget includes sufficient funding for the U.S. to fully engage with the international community in ongoing negotiations under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
“Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), James Jeffords (R-VT), John Kerry (D-MA), and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) showed important leadership in supporting funding for climate change programs,” said Environmental Defense legislative director Elizabeth Thompson. “Cuts in the current administration budget proposal could seriously undermine efforts to understand and respond to the threat of global climate change. Today’s amendment will help to ensure these programs can go forward.”
Just a few weeks ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the threat from global warming has grown and that Earth’s climate, its species, and many of its countries are already feeling the effects.
With more than 3 million members, Environmental Defense Fund creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. To do so, EDF links science, economics, law, and innovative private-sector partnerships to turn solutions into action. edf.org
Latest press releases
-
EDF Statement on the Fifth Anniversary of the Virginia Clean Economy Act
July 1, 2025 -
Latest Senate Bill Only Harms Clean Energy When More is Needed
June 28, 2025 -
Energy Commission Provides a Balanced Roadmap to Stabilize California Gasoline Markets
June 27, 2025 -
New Debt Financing Structure Published to Scale Oil and Gas Methane Emissions Reductions
June 24, 2025 -
The Biggest Conservation Success Story You’ve Never Heard Of!
June 24, 2025 -
Supreme Court Ruling Does Not Address Merits of California Vehicle Standards, Does Determine that Fuel Industry Has Standing to Challenge Them
June 20, 2025