Our impact

• Impact: President Obama signed the Lautenberg Act in 2016, reforming our inadequate, decades-old chemical safety law.

• Our role: Over several years, EDF worked strategically with members in both political parties and with other organizations to craft a balanced bill.

Next step: Work with retailers to make products safer »

• Impact: Walmart’s success at reducing toxic chemicals in household products was followed by similar actions from CVS, Target, Johnson & Johnson and Colgate.

• Our role: We provided scientific guidance to Walmart on how to develop a leadership policy that sets a standard for safer chemicals in the marketplace.

Next step: Help more companies follow the standard »

• Impact: The number of overfished stocks has dropped from 92 to 38 since 2000¹ – a dramatic reversal from decades of overfishing.
• Our role: We introduced catch shares, a management system now widely used. Catch shares give fishermen a stake in the overall health of a fishery.

Next step: Make sustainable fishing the global norm »

• Impact: Federal rules limit harmful methane emissions on 245 million acres of taxpayer-owned and tribal lands, saving money and protecting health.
• Our role: We drove the science and advocacy that led to federal action, and the activism that thwarted efforts in the U.S. Senate to repeal the methane emission rules.

Next step: Back more policies targeting methane waste »

• Impact: The EPA’s plan would dramatically reduce carbon emissions from power plants and ramp up the clean energy market. But under the Trump administration, the EPA has moved to repeal it.
• Our role: We rallied our members and partners to send comments in support of the plan and defended it in court.

Next step: Fight the attempts to undermine the Clean Power Plan »

• Impact: The world’s top emitter of greenhouse gases, China announced it will launch a national carbon market in 2017.
• Our role: Our staff in China provided critical technical assistance for seven pilot carbon markets, building on our success solving acid rain in the U.S.

Next step: Assist China as it launches carbon market »

Photo: Jiri Rezac

• Impact: EDF Climate Corps has helped top companies uncover nearly $1.5 billion in wasted energy.²  One in three Fortune 100 companies have hosted Climate Corps fellows.³
• Our role: Each year we train hundreds of graduate students and embed them at leading organizations to find tangible ways to reduce energy use.

Next step: Cultivate new leaders of climate action »

• Impact: A new conservation tool known as habitat exchanges helps save vulnerable wildlife before they need endangered species protection.
• Our role: We created the habitat exchange system, then brought together some unlikely allies – including farmers and energy developers – to help protect the declining greater sage-grouse.

Next step: Create more habitat exchanges for wildlife »

Photo: Steven Nehl

• Impact: Corporations ranging from Walmart to Smithfield Foods committed to optimize fertilizer use and improve soil conservation on 23 million acres of U.S. crops.
• Our role: We’ve developed collaborations with partners across the grain supply chain to showcase the benefits of using fertilizers more efficiently.

Next step: Make even more cropland sustainable »

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