Preliminary findings report for the Sustainable First Movers Initiative Identification Tool, a system created by Environmental EDF and Lloyd’s Register (LR) Maritime Decarbonisation Hub, in collaboration with Arup, to help shipping stakeholders align investment decisions that support the maritime energy transition away from fossil fuels.

To meet sustainability goals, municipalities and regional governments must develop partnerships with relevant stakeholders in the field of freight. This new analysis by EDF Europe aims to support this type of collaboration.

In order to meet sustainability goals, municipalities and regional governments must develop partnerships with relevant stakeholders in the field of freight.

Engaging oil and gas clients on methane provides banks with a credible, near-term, and cost-effective path to making headway on financed emissions. In this EDF report, we argue that oil and gas methane emissions are significantly under-reported and thus pose a material climate transition risk to banks financing oil and gas.

Financed emissions reporting by the six biggest US banks doesn’t show if they’re improving. Focusing on methane can yield results.

New EDF Economics Discussion Paper reviews the instrument options available to policy makers to address methane emissions from the coal sector during the coal phase-out. This paper complements previous EDF research focusing on instruments options for methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.   Coal use is one of the major sources of CO2 globally, […]

A modern, clean public transit system is critical to meeting climate goals. That's why EDF is working with a growing coalition of businesses, advocates and community groups to develop a comprehensive congestion pricing plan to help New York get there.

The Department of Energy has announced the list of selectees under its $7 billion Hydrogen Hubs program. If they successfully conclude final negotiations with DOE, projects will receive funding to create close-proximity networks of hydrogen producers, consumers, and connective infrastructure as part of the Biden administration’s ambitious climate and clean energy effort. While hubs offer […]

Study commissioned by EDF lays out a comprehensive vision to unlock the potential of intermodal freight, suggesting how successfully integrating class I and short line rail into an updated intermodal ecosystem could usher in transformative gains for the industry, while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the freight sector.

Freight transport is at the leading edge of a decarbonization revolution, with heavy-duty electric trucks rolling onto US roads as companies work to push health- and climate-harming emissions out of the supply chain.

By Sofia Esquivel-Elizondo and Ilissa Ocko Companies are announcing plans to use ammonia to decarbonize the power sector, because they view it as a carbon-free fuel that does not emit carbon dioxide and other carbon-based air pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, when combusted. But there are serious issues with this strategy, primarily because it doesn’t […]

Website from EDF and Blacks in Green helps people around the country get involved in decisions about energy for their communities.

Our new website, Community Voices in Energy — a collaboration with Chicago-based Blacks in Green — equips frontline communities to participate as experts in climate and energy proceedings and influence energy investments. By ensuring that community members are able to share their direct experience on the record in public utility commission hearings, the site helps […]

This paper analyses three groups of policies leading to the decrease in methane emissions in the coal sector: 1) policies stimulating reduction in coal supply/demand, 2) policies stimulating the reduction in methane emissions, and 3) enabling polices and regulatory frameworks.

By Dana Rodriguez Today marks the celebration of World Maritime Day. This year’s theme — ‘MARPOL at 50 — Our commitment goes on’. This theme spotlights the 50th anniversary of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, and encourages discussions on the next phase of the International Maritime Organization’s work to promote […]

Environmental Defense Fund's climate action hub helps businesses fast track and scale climate progress, reach their sustainability goals and galvanize net zero leadership across supply chains.

New Mexico communities know the stakes for climate change are high — hotter and drier conditions threaten public health, livelihoods, and cultural and recreational resources, as they lead to increased drought, extended and more extreme wildfire seasons, and extreme heat. Those impacts are projected to get much worse in the coming decades, without serious and […]

Whitepaper prepared for Environmental Defense Fund by partner organization Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA) identifies cost-effective pathways for improving affordability for residents of Florida and outlines key opportunities to advance residential energy efficiency.

EDF’s analysis indicates that methane emissions from gas pipeline leaks are significantly higher than current estimates by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory. This report details policy recommendations to reduce leakage from pipelines and EDF's methodology for estimating methane emissions from pipeline infrastructure. 

By Sofia Esquivel Elizondo Enthusiasm for hydrogen as a climate-friendly fuel of the future is everywhere. Hundreds of hydrogen energy projects worth more than $500 billion have been announced, and The International Energy Agency says hydrogen demand could increase sixfold by 2050. Scientists, though, are confident that this leak-prone gas can warm the climate when […]

This report from EDF and WSP finds that the U.S. market for electric vehicle and battery manufacturing, which was turbocharged by passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) one year ago, has continued to race ahead and is not expected to slow down any time soon.