Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Blogs

By Adam Kurland, Attorney, U.S. Clean Energy and David Cranston, Florida Clean Energy Manager, State Affairs • As Florida invests in major transmission infrastructure to meet growing electricity demand, rigorous review is essential to ensure projects are necessary, cost-effective and in the public interest. • EDF’s appeal asks the Florida Supreme Court to ensure Florida’s largest recent transmission project receives the level of scrutiny warranted before its costs are passed on to customers.

[View the English version of this post] En el corazón del Valle de Salinas había un compromiso con la colaboración, no solo como un valor, sino como una forma de trabajar.

In case you missed it, an out-of-touch, industry-first proposal from Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives threatens to significantly weaken the Toxic Substances Control Act, a popular chemical safety law that helps keep dangerous chemicals out of our homes, workplaces and schools. A similar proposal from the U.S. Senate would also roll back these essential public health protections. Why does this matter?

Since 2022, Southeast Asia has been a focal region for Environmental Defense Fund’s global methane mitigation efforts. We started from the ground up: raising methane awareness, engaging policymakers, industry leaders, and building methane science capacity in the region.

Medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles are hitting the road in 2026, and we’ve collected last month’s most exciting news. In 2025, EDF delivered monthly deployment updates on the biggest zero-emission transportation stories. By the end of 2025, it was clear that momentum was sustained throughout a challenging year. This year will undoubtably see more big announcements, and we’ll be here to showcase the biggest orders and deployments of zero-emission trucks happening around the country.

New York recently passed major rollbacks to its landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in an opaque process as part of New York’s FY2027 budget negotiations. While the state’s long-term climate commitments remain, these changes allow the state to delay action on cutting climate and health-harming pollution and slow the transition away from price-volatile fossil fuels.

JULY 1, 2026 – Today, Virginia demonstrated leadership and dedication to combating the climate crisis as a series of new environmental laws went into effect. These solutions address a range of climate-driven issues and were passed with robust bipartisan legislative support.

Cutting methane from livestock is one of the quickest ways to slow climate change, as a new United Nations report confirms. A growing number of countries are writing livestock emissions into the national climate plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs, that they submit to the UN every five years.

Extreme weather like hurricanes, tropical storms and torrential rainfall are facts of life for many Florida communities. And the risks of such weather are increasing and worsening in severity with sea level rise, warming ocean temperatures and stressed ecosystems, making resilience-building an urgent priority.

The battle over the future of North Carolina’s electric grid is heating up in front of the North Carolina Utilities Commission. At the center of the debate is Duke Energy Carolinas’ 2026 general rate case, a multi-billion-dollar request that initially sought a staggering 18.1% rate hike for residential consumers.