USA

Convenings

COP27 panels highlight connections between air quality, health and climate The United Nations climate meeting, COP27, brought together global leaders to tackle the greatest environmental challenge of our time. EDF ...

About EDF’s Global Clean Air Initiative

The problem: Around the world, nine out of ten people breathe unhealthy air. Air pollution is now the biggest environmental risk for early death, responsible for as many an estimated ...

Houston, Texas

Houston, the energy capital of the United States, is a sprawling metro area where industrial facilities mix with residential neighborhoods. The city’s longstanding, hands-off approach to zoning means some industrial ...

Advocacy / Petitions

Learn about Moms Clean Air Force: The mission of US-based Moms Clean Air Force is to protect children from air pollution and climate change. We envision a safe, stable future ...

Reducing Pollution Through Better Data

Cities and local governments are at the forefront of cutting air pollution, using new policy levers to limit dirty vehicle traffic and improve zoning rules to address environmental injustice. Local ...

Health Impact Assessments

Knowing how air pollution harms health is critical, but we also need to be able to pinpoint where and how people are most affected. For this, practitioners and policymakers can ...

Impacts and Disparity

Nearly 150 million Americans, or roughly half of the population, live in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution. The problem disproportionately menaces communities of color and low wealth. That ...