EDF and allies filed comments objecting to EPA's proposals to repeal the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and power plant carbon pollution standards.

(Washington, D.C. – July 31, 2025) A dozen health, environment and community groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s delay of the 2024 methane standards for the oil and gas ...

Today news broke that the Trump administration halted a policy and blocked funding for two programs that save taxpayer dollars and protects lives.

Today, Sens. Schumer (D-NY) and Wyden (D-OR) introduced legislation to reverse President Trump's tax hikes on clean energy. “Clean energy offers some of the most affordable and fastest ways to bring ...

“Addressing the climate crisis requires bold, science-driven solutions—including how we produce food. Seafood is a climate-smart protein with a lower carbon footprint than many land-based alternatives ...

Environmental Defense Fund is dedicated to uncovering and addressing the issue of orphan and abandoned wells in Pennsylvania. Our mission is to find and remediate these hidden hazards that threaten ...

EDF was founded by scientists over 50 years ago. Whether mapping climate pollution from space or cutting air pollution, science drives all we do.

We offer a range of paid internships to introduce students to environmental careers, but our summer internship program is the most popular. Close to 100 interns participate in a range of programming ...

EDF has been fighting for a better future for over 50 years — and we’re stepping up that fight as the Trump administration moves to erode the United States’ environmental protections. No one wants to ...

Mark Brownstein is Senior Vice President of Energy at DF, and leads EDF’s Energy program globally on a path consistent with a 2050 zero-carbon future.

Why business engagement matters: We can power the future with clean energy, create safer household products and feed the world without warming the planet. But to get there, we need big solutions.

We partnered with Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law to create a free database and progress tracker for all climate change-related provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA ...