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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

New interactive data story highlights air pollution and health impacts in the South Bronx
Mindi DePaola / Dec 20, 2023

What’s new: EDF partner, South Bronx Unite, has just launched an interactive data visualization that’s mapping what residents of the South Bronx have long experienced—that air pollution from industrial facilities ...

by Mindi DePaola

• December 20, 2023January 5, 2024 • Academic, Climate, Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring, New York City, Partners, Public Health/Environmental Official, Science, USA

EDF China unveils locally-tailored Air Tracker in Jinan
Dec 11, 2023

What’s new: EDF China recently unveiled its localized Air Tracker tool at a meeting with government officials and policy and academic experts in Jinan. The tool will help these and ...

by EDF Web Team

• December 11, 2023December 20, 2023 • Academic, China, Climate, Energy, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring, Public Health/Environmental Official, Science

New science to help policymakers address unequal impacts of air pollution
Maria Harris / Nov 13, 2023

What’s new: EDF and partners have just published new research that explores how novel data sources, including satellites and computer models, can help improve our ability to map, identify, track ...

by Maria Harris

• November 13, 2023December 11, 2023 • Academic, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring, Public Health/Environmental Official, Science, USA