Monitoring

Air Tracker expands to Rio de Janeiro, helping officials enforce air quality standards
Derek Schwabe / Nov 19, 2024

What’s new: At the Urban 20 Mayors (U20) Summit, Environmental Defense Fund announced the expansion of Air Tracker—its cutting-edge air quality monitoring tool—to Rio de Janeiro today. Air Tracker is ...

Six ways to ramp up climate and clean air action in 2025
Sarah Vogel / Nov 08, 2024

2024 has been a significant year for the climate and air pollution crisis, both in terms of the mounting impacts and increased action. Extreme climate events like hurricanes and wildfires ...

Sarah Vogel highlights health benefits of cutting methane at Health Forum during UN General Assembly
Oct 02, 2024

What’s new: Foreign Policy magazine hosted a Health Forum during the UN General Assembly last month in New York, where EDF’s Sarah Vogel explained how methane connects to health impacts. ...

Cutting methane benefits health: EDF and partners set action-oriented research agenda in Mexico 
Derek Schwabe / Sep 06, 2024

What’s New: Earlier this month, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Observatorio Mexicano de Emisiones de Metano (ObMEM) hosted a seminar-workshop to co-create a research agenda for understanding the health ...

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 ...

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 ...