Today, FDA partially granted a petition submitted by EDF and partners to remove the use of three cancer-causing chemicals as color additives in food.
The U.S. Senate is poised to hold its first vote on a permitting bill that will have profound impacts on America’s power grids and environment. The procedural vote on the Bipartisan American ...
NOVEMBER 9, 2026 – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today partially granted and partially denied industry groups’ request to temporarily block California’s climate disclosure laws while ...
As the world’s largest economy, the United States has long played a major role in driving global environmental progress. With that progress under attack, EDF fights for policies that safeguard our air ...
The problem: Roughly 2 billion people lack safe, clean drinking water. Droughts that were once extreme are now normal. Plummeting groundwater levels, shrinking rivers and rising competition for water ...
Environmental Defense Fund is working with partners to confront climate change at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, from Nov. 9-20, 2026. A selection of key events EDF experts will attend is below, with ...
Christopher Kuzdas, Ph.D., serves as the Water Program Director for Environmental Defense Fund in Arizona, a program with a mission to secure water security for all people and with over 85,000 members ...
The proposal is “fundamentally unlawful” and should be abandoned because it contravenes Supreme Court precedent and guts important clean air protections.
Why science matters: It takes rigorous science to protect people and the planet. One example: Our groundbreaking studies put the powerful climate pollutant methane on the global agenda — and we helped ...
The Trump administration has handed direct support to nearly half of the country’s coal plants, according to new analysis from Environmental Defense Fund. These support measures include $950 million ...