Today news broke that the Trump administration halted a policy and blocked funding for two programs that save taxpayer dollars and protects lives.

The single most important way to slow climate change right now is to cut emissions of methane, a highly potent, short-term greenhouse gas. To do that, we need to see the total picture — from space.

Shapiro for his action to support Pennsylvania jobs and to allow this and other federally funded time-sensitive work to continue." Adam Peltz,, Environmental Defense Fund One of the world’s leading ...

EDF, Danone, and Bel publish open letter calling on EU Commissioner for Food & Agriculture to prioritise methane reductions in the dairy sector ...

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced that EDF’s Daniel Whittle, Valerie Miller, and Eduardo Boné Morón, are the recipients of the 2025 AAAS David & Betty ...

(Washington, D.C. – February 11, 2025) Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda publicly criticized the SEC’s climate risk disclosure rule. Uyeda asked the U.S. Court ...

Why science matters: It takes rigorous science to protect people and the planet. One example: Our groundbreaking studies put the powerful climate pollutant methane on the global agenda — and we ...

Humans are the main cause of climate change — we burn fossil fuels and chop down forests, causing average temperatures to rise worldwide. That global warming trend is increasingly disrupting our ...

The problem: More than 3 billion people around the world rely on seafood as a primary source of protein, yet climate change and overfishing are straining fisheries and ocean ecosystems. This puts ...

The data gathered by MethaneSAT — which we launched into orbit on March 4, 2024 — will help measure methane pollution from oil and gas facilities worldwide, with both broad scope and exacting ...

An updated analysis estimates that Pennsylvania’s oil and gas companies emit at over 1.1 million tons of methane annually. That’s more than 15 times what companies report to the state. The analysis – ...