The Trump EPA finds that repealing the Carbon Pollution Standards would result in as many as 1,220 additional deaths in 2035 alone.

A new Environmental Defense Fund and Cornell University report on actions that can strengthen state-created insurance markets ...

Two Proposals Would Allow More Mercury and Arsenic Pollution, Remove All National Limits on Power Plant Climate Pollution ...

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Why advocacy matters: The longest-lasting environmental solutions have the broadest support. That means the biggest environmental problems require that we all work together. How we use this powerful ...

Vickie serves as Environmental Defense Fund’s General Counsel and leads its U.S. Legal and Regulatory Program. For over thirty years, she has worked with partners to secure landmark national and state ...

The problem: A flood of climate misinformation is threatening to erode public support for solving the climate crisis. Often shared on social media, misleading narratives question the causes and ...

Methane — a potent greenhouse gas — is accelerating short-term warming far more than carbon dioxide would alone. That warming is contributing to extreme flooding, stronger storms, more intense ...

The problem: Globally, agriculture contributes one-quarter of the pollution warming the climate. At the same time, climate impacts like droughts and heat waves are already threatening the livelihoods ...

ICLEI USA, EDF, and AAMA have launched the 2025 Climate Action Training Program, featuring a cohort of 10 AAMA mayors.

The problem: Healthy forests, soils and oceans have a natural ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere, as well as the potential to help stabilize our climate. But activities like deforestation, ...

A unique satellite with a critical mission: to slow global warming fast. Watch the SpaceX rocket launch that will propel MethaneSAT into low-earth orbit, where it will orbit the earth every 95 minutes ...