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EDF team visits Brazil to expand Air Tracker, support clean air action
Tammy Thompson / Jul 03, 2024

What’s new: Our recent trip to Brazil in June gave EDF the opportunity to formalize partnerships with city and state officials in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, as these ...

by Tammy Thompson

• July 3, 2024 • Academic, Brazil, Climate, Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Energy, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Public Health/Environmental Official, Science

Video: EDF and partners release report finding one in three New Jersey residents lives near a mega-warehouse
Derek Schwabe / Jun 26, 2024

What’s new: EDF released a new report tracing the growth of mega-warehouses and associated diesel truck pollution in New Jersey, building upon recent research in New York and Illinois. The launch ...

by Derek Schwabe

• June 26, 2024June 27, 2024 • Academic, Business, Climate, Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Energy, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring, New York City, Partners, Public Health/Environmental Official, USA

New State of Global Air report shows pollution’s deadly impact
Sarah Vogel / Jun 26, 2024

What’s new: The Health Effects Institute’s new State of Global Air 2024 report finds that air pollution ranks as the second leading risk factor for death, including for children under ...

by Sarah Vogel

• June 26, 2024June 26, 2024 • Academic, Business, Climate, Concerned Citizen, Corporate Sustainability Professional, Energy, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring, Public Health/Environmental Official, Science

State of the Air Report shows America must work harder to fight pollution
Tammy Thompson / May 07, 2024

What’s new: The American Lung Association released its annual State of the Air report last month, showing that climate change is making it more difficult to clean up our polluted ...

by Tammy Thompson

• May 7, 2024 • Academic, Climate, Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Corporate Sustainability Professional, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring, Public Health/Environmental Official, USA

Collaborative insights: Empowering health advocacy on methane in Mexico
Apr 08, 2024

What’s new: EDF’s Global Clean Air team was proud to launch the Sall Methane and Health project in March of 2024, a new collaboration funded by the Sall Family Foundation ...

by EDF Web Team

• April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 • Academic, Energy, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Mexico, Partners, Public Health/Environmental Official, Science

New Study quantifies health impacts from oil and gas flaring in the U.S.
Mar 12, 2024

A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment, Boston University School of Public Health and the Environmental Defense Fund finds that ...

by Derek Schwabe

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Mobile monitoring reveals congestion effect for vehicle emissions in London
Lauren Padilla / Mar 11, 2024

New study shows just how much congestion intensifies emissions from diesel vehicles In a recently published study, researchers from the University of York and Environmental Defense Fund show how traffic ...

by lpadilla

• March 11, 2024March 12, 2024 • Academic, Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring, Public Health/Environmental Official, Science, UK

What does EPA’s new soot standard mean for public health?
Ananya Roy / Feb 23, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) soot rules just got a lot stronger. On February 7, the agency lowered the national limit of annual fine particle pollution—or soot—to 9 micrograms ...

by Ananya Roy

• February 23, 2024February 27, 2024 • Academic, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring

EPA acts to protect millions of Americans from soot pollution
Feb 07, 2024

(Washington, D.C. – February 7, 2024) The Environmental Protection Agency today announced an updated, stronger national health standard for particulate matter – a potentially deadly air pollutant more commonly known ...

by Derek Schwabe

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Report: One in four New York State residents lives within half a mile of a mega-warehouse
Derek Schwabe / Jan 18, 2024

What’s new: A new report released today by EDF and ElectrifyNY traces the growth of mega-warehouses–and their health impacts–in communities across New York State, driven in-part by the e-commerce boom. ...

by Derek Schwabe

• January 18, 2024January 18, 2024 • Academic, Concerned Citizen, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring, New York City, Partners, Public Health/Environmental Official, USA