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This includes efforts to ban the use of PFAS in firefighting foam and food packaging, and expanded efforts by lawmakers to restrict PFAS discharges into water supplies.
These elements – research and action – are what make EWG such a powerful force in the environmental movement, with such an outsize return on investment.
New laboratory tests commissioned by EWG found PFAS in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities, including major metropolitan areas.
This update of our interactive map documented PFAS pollution in public and private water systems.
• EWG’s searchable consumer databases: Skin Deep®, Tap Water Database, Guide to Healthy Cleaning and Food Scores.
AGRICULTURE AND CONSERVATION: OUR ROOTS Since EWG’s inception in our Agriculture Program has worked to conserve agricultural land and water.
Today we use advanced geospatial mapping of satellite imagery and data analysis of farm subsidy payments and USDA conservation programs to affect local and national policy decisions on agriculture.
PRIORITY TAP WATER CONTAMINANTS As part of our broader, organization-wide effort to protect America’s tap water from health-harming contaminants, in and reporting on two pollutants that result from agricultural runoff: nitrate and cyanotoxins.
This water quality trend report found that in much of America’s farm country, nitrate contamination of drinking water poses a serious health risk.
Using water quality data from utilities with the most serious problems has grown steadily worse.
Nitrate contamination is widespread in California’s drinking water supply, but EWG’s analysis found that as nitrate levels rise, the likelihood that a community is majority-Latino also goes up – especially in the eightcounty San Joaquin Valley, the nation’s leading agricultural region.
Nitrate contamination of drinking water in Wisconsin may cause nearly year of colorectal and other cancers and increase the risk of very premature births, very low birth weight and birth defects.
As Algae Season Ends, the Toll: More Than INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL AGRICULTURE In 2020 we doubled down on our work to reveal the threat presented by billions of pounds of phosphorus-laden manure – in terms of algae outbreaks and contaminated drinking water – and to press for more effective oversight of animal feeding operations.
• EWG Investigation: Manure Overload Threatens Water in Minnesota’s Farm Country – May Using innovative geospatial techniques, EWG mapped the likely application of 49 million tons of manure – produced each year by the state’s cattle, hogs, turkeys and chickens – to cropland as fertilizer.
We found that manure from Minnesota’s animal feedlots threatens to overload nearby cropland with chemicals that can pollute lakes, streams and aquifers, including drinking water sources.
As the reckless and explosive growth of animal feeding operations continues across the U.S., the number of Americans potentially at risk continues to rise too.
This report details the serious health threats associated with living near animal feeding operations – whether swine, cattle or poultry.
This removed one of the biggest sources of this toxic chemical in our food supply.
↘ Bats are vital to healthy ecosystems around the globe.
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL Is making vital and significant achievements to save bats and their habitats.
BATS & COVID-19 While the exact chain of transmission that resulted in COVID-19 may never be established, what we know is this: ↘ The conservation of bats and their habitats helps create a healthier, safer world.
↘ Bat conservation is important for global communities.
And as COVID-importance of bats and the critical need for global bat conservation going forward.
That’s why protection of nature is such a critical part of the solution, especially in areas that are important for bats.
Protecting nature for bats not only helps ensure we keep intact the delicate web of life on our planet, it also means a safer, healthier world for all of us.
Searching Rwanda rainforest Bat Conservation International is on a mission to find and protect the critically endangered Hill’s Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus hilli ) in Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park.
Bat Conservation International and Nyungwe Park Rangers set up bat detectors.
Informed of the bats’ plight during a meeting with Florida partners, Bat Conservation International scientists quickly responded to the emergency.
Bat Conservation International research fellow monitors bat houses built for endangered species.
Protecting & restoring critical bat habitats Bat Conservation International’s habitat protection and restoration work involves assessing and documenting bat roosting sites, and seeing that those sites are preserved to sustain healthy bat populations. Surveyed more than abandoned mines, caves and roosts across the American West to determine active roosting sites and work with federal partners in protecting those sites.
Bat Conservation International staff repels into an abandoned mine.
Signed conservation agreements with eight rural communities in areas surrounding the only two known maternity roosts in northeast Mexico.
Joined partners on an expedition to collect agave palmeri seeds in the Chiricahua and Peloncilllo Mountains of southeast Arizona, to be raised in Borderlands Restoration Network and Gila Watershed Partnership greenhouses. Collected an additional seeds of four agave species to be grown in renovated community nurseries in northeast Mexico under the leadership of local conservation NGO Especies, Sociedad y Hábitat, A.C. and industry partner CEMEX.
Restoring agave habitat Bat Conservation International’s Agave Restoration Initiative sustains the endangered Mexican Long-nosed Bat (Leptonycteris nivalis) and Lesser Long-nosed Bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae ) that migrate between the arid deserts of the U.S. Southwest and central Mexico following cacti and agave blooms.
TO PRODUCE CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE Developing solutions to emerging and serious threats to bats requires strong science, innovative research, leadingedge technology, and dedicated scientists and researchers.
We focus on improving knowledge of bat populations and invest in necessary research and partnerships to inform sound conservation decisions.
Sharing data among partners is vital to conservation.
The North American Bat Monitoring Program works to improve bat conservation across North America.
We’re working with energy partners to better understand bat behavior around wind turbines as we test scalable and practical solutions that enable renewable energy production and save bats.
Awarded multi-year contracts from the U.S. Department of Energy to build collaborative systems in curtailing bat mortalities caused by wind turbines.
Participated in a groundbreaking workshop to investigate the risk to bats from offshore wind energy development in the state of New York.
Bat Conservation International staff scale towering turbines to test solutions.
Recognized as Evidence Champions by Conservation Evidence, a certification that recognizes our commitment to providing science-founded evidence in our conservation actions.
UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE BATS HAVE IN SUSTAINING HEALTHy ECOSySTEmS Bat Conservation International is committed to educating people about the importance of bats and bat conservation.
We know that personal experiences in nature — and personal understanding of the contributions bats provide to healthy ecosystems — are important for saving bat species.
Organized bird and butterfly surveys to add to important understanding of the Preserve’s remarkable diversity.
Bat Conservation International owns and manages Bracken Cave and the surrounding land.
http://www.batcon.org/our-work/protect-restore-landscapes/bracken-cave-preserve/ 20 bat events in seven days Bat Conservation International is proud to be a partner in Bat Week — an annual, international celebration of the role of bats in nature.
Launched Bat Conservation International’s Bat Walks Program in partnership with The Brown Foundation, Cibolo Nature Center, Dallas Zoo, Houston Zoo, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and San Antonio Zoo in Texas, and with Zoo Miami in Florida.
WORLD Bat Conservation International experienced a year unlike any other.
Thanks to the increasing generosity of our community, we were able to defend bats and their role in nature.
Bat Conservation International researchers survey and monitor Bracken Cave.
Now I feel it is even more important to support bat conservation because work like yours is what will keep us from having new global pandemics in the future.
For many decades, Defenders has led the effort to protect and restore the gray wolf, and we will continue to fight the unscientific and hostile anti-wolf policies that impede conservation progress and will carry on our unrelenting battle to restore federal protections for this iconic keystone species.
POLICY EXPERTS pushed forward on the urgent need for a National Biodiversity Strategy (NBS), an all-of-government approach to address the unprecedented loss of wildlife and habitat we are experiencing.
By defending, funding and expanding our national wildlife refuges, we will directly address biodiversity loss and climate change while promoting increased equitable access to nature.
From panthers and sea turtles in Florida to wolves, bison and black-footed ferrets in Montana, Defenders’ conservation experts were in the field saving wildlife all over the country.
CONSERVATION INNOVATION EXPERTS provided comprehensive analyses to guide policy and inform conservation strategies to reach the goal of protecting 30% of our terrestrial and marine systems by 2030 (“30x30”).
WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED MUCH THIS YEAR WORKING WITH AN ADMINISTRATION THAT VALUES SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION.
Our many successes include the return of protections to the Tongass National Forest in Alaska and the suspension of oil and gas leasing permits for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
More and more species, including manatees, Mexican gray wolves, polar bears and North Atlantic right whales, face the very real threat of extinction because of climate change, habitat loss, pollution and inadequate protections.
In our work we continue to demonstrate success by following the science, building partnerships, leading with innovative solutions and focusing on collaborative and practical approaches in defense of nature.
While highlighting some of our important conservation work and raising awareness of important conservation challenges, this family-friendly program will undoubtedly motivate a new, diverse generation of wildlife advocates and broaden our supporter base to advance our mission.
We aim to solve conservation challenges by collaborating and engaging with communities at the local level, by fighting for the protection of imperiled species in the courts and the halls of Congress and by defending our bedrock environmental laws, especially the Endangered Species Act, our nation’s most effective law to protect wildlife from extinction.
HARD-FOUGHT BATTLE TO PROTECT CALVING CARIBOU AND DENNING POLAR BEARS in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, Defenders celebrated President Biden’s suspension of the oil and gas leasing permits issued at the end of the previous administration.
TIRELESS LEGAL BATTLE TO PROTECT THE TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST in Alaska ended with success when the Biden administration announced full restoration of protections for this remarkable landscape, reinstating the National Roadless Conservation Area rule and shutting down the largest old-growth forest logging project proposed in decades.
AS A RESULT OF A DEFENDERS LAWSUIT, we celebrated a victory for protecting Bristol Bay in Alaska when the Biden administration announced the restoration of protections for this spectacular marine ecosystem.
DEFENDERS CELEBRATED A COURT VICTORY TO PROTECT IMPERILED POLAR BEARS from drilling when a judge ruled that federal permit authorizations for ConocoPhilips’ Willow drilling project in Alaska violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act.
Defenders will continue to defend our critical environmental laws and all the imperiled species that rely on them for their survival.
We helped establish a conservation herd on protected grasslands in Colorado (and celebrated the birth of and continued our support of the bison conservation transfer program by transporting Yellowstone bison to the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana that would have otherwise been sent to slaughter.
DEFENDERS CONTINUED TO LEAD EFFORTS TO PROTECT THE FLORIDA MANATEE, a beloved species that suffered the deadliest year on record in and lack of warm water habitat.
Defenders led advocacy and education aimed at restoring the natural flow of the dammed Ocklawaha River, which would provide critical warm-water habitat that manatees need to survive.
Defenders’ legal team continued to fight for manatees in the courts, holding government agencies accountable for protecting critical habitat and addressing the devastating water pollution that is killing the seagrass and causing manatees to starve.
➤ Include Defenders as a beneficiary in your will, living trust, retirement plan, life insurance policy or other estate plan, and leave a lasting mark on wildlife and the world by helping us continue our conservation work.
In this report, you’ll find EDF partnering with others to change the way natural resources are managed, strengthening the ability of forests, coastal wetlands and other ecosystems to reduce climate impacts.
You’ll see us helping people in areas ravaged by storms, in the droughtstricken Western U.S., and in communities harmed the most by past pollution.
And we’re speeding the transition to electric cars and trucks and toward a global clean energy economy with no net climate pollution.
For example, EDF climate scientist Ilissa Ocko and her colleagues have published new research demonstrating that in the next methane — a long-underrated greenhouse gas — will do more to warm the Earth than all the carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
This work has helped move methane to the top of the climate change agenda.
In fact, at the recent COPcountries pledged to cut methane pollution at least 30% by 2030.
Cutting methane is the fastest way to slow the rate of global warming and reduce the impact of climate change on our lives.
GETTY We drive global action to cut methane pollution — the fastest way to slow climate change.
The world must take swift action to reduce methane emissions.
Research led by EDF climate scientist Ilissa Ocko, published this spring, came to a striking conclusion: concerted global action, using existing technologies, could cut methane pollution in half by the rate of global warming by as much as 30%.
Soon afterward, the authoritative U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscored the need to slash methane.
methane at the forefront of the global climate agenda.
oil and gas and large-scale agriculture, at least by 2030.
“The Methane Moment is here,” says Mark Brownstein, EDF Senior VP of Energy Transition.
government, industry, nonprofits and academia to develop new rules to limit methane emissions.
U.S., we helped build bipartisan support for a successful effort in Congress to overturn a Trump-era rollback on regulations to reduce methane pollution from new oil and gas facilities.
Because of this work, the EPA, led by EDF alumnus Michael Regan, is poised to strengthen and expand those rules to cover, for the first time, the roughly of the industry’s methane pollution.
It will locate and measure methane emissions worldwide, turn its data around in days and offer it free to everyone.
On the ground Laurie Anderson, a Colorado organizer for EDF-affiliate Moms Clean Air Force, lives half a mile from federal rules to limit the oil and gas industry’s emissions of methane and toxic air pollution.
power of CO2 in the first 20 years after its release.
Methane detective “Reducing COimportant and will benefit my grandkids.
As part of an EDF initiative, a technician in Romania checks for methane emissions at a natural gas facility.
the oil and gas industry, but we need to do more.
In 2018, EDF announced that it would launch a satellite to locate and measure methane pollution worldwide.
It will be able to scan millions of oil and gas sites around the globe and hundreds of thousands of miles of major pipelines.
It will also make its data public in order to hold oil and gas producers responsible for reducing their pollution.

This includes efforts to ban the use of PFAS in firefighting foam and food packaging, and expanded efforts by lawmakers to restrict PFAS discharges into water supplies.

These elements – research and action – are what make EWG such a powerful force in the environmental movement, with such an outsize return on investment.

New laboratory tests commissioned by EWG found PFAS in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities, including major metropolitan areas.

This update of our interactive map documented PFAS pollution in public and private water systems.

• EWG’s searchable consumer databases: Skin Deep®, Tap Water Database, Guide to Healthy Cleaning and Food Scores.

AGRICULTURE AND CONSERVATION: OUR ROOTS Since EWG’s inception in our Agriculture Program has worked to conserve agricultural land and water.

Today we use advanced geospatial mapping of satellite imagery and data analysis of farm subsidy payments and USDA conservation programs to affect local and national policy decisions on agriculture.

PRIORITY TAP WATER CONTAMINANTS As part of our broader, organization-wide effort to protect America’s tap water from health-harming contaminants, in and reporting on two pollutants that result from agricultural runoff: nitrate and cyanotoxins.

This water quality trend report found that in much of America’s farm country, nitrate contamination of drinking water poses a serious health risk.

Using water quality data from utilities with the most serious problems has grown steadily worse.

Nitrate contamination is widespread in California’s drinking water supply, but EWG’s analysis found that as nitrate levels rise, the likelihood that a community is majority-Latino also goes up – especially in the eightcounty San Joaquin Valley, the nation’s leading agricultural region.

Nitrate contamination of drinking water in Wisconsin may cause nearly year of colorectal and other cancers and increase the risk of very premature births, very low birth weight and birth defects.

As Algae Season Ends, the Toll: More Than INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL AGRICULTURE In 2020 we doubled down on our work to reveal the threat presented by billions of pounds of phosphorus-laden manure – in terms of algae outbreaks and contaminated drinking water – and to press for more effective oversight of animal feeding operations.

• EWG Investigation: Manure Overload Threatens Water in Minnesota’s Farm Country – May Using innovative geospatial techniques, EWG mapped the likely application of 49 million tons of manure – produced each year by the state’s cattle, hogs, turkeys and chickens – to cropland as fertilizer.

We found that manure from Minnesota’s animal feedlots threatens to overload nearby cropland with chemicals that can pollute lakes, streams and aquifers, including drinking water sources.

As the reckless and explosive growth of animal feeding operations continues across the U.S., the number of Americans potentially at risk continues to rise too.

This report details the serious health threats associated with living near animal feeding operations – whether swine, cattle or poultry.

This removed one of the biggest sources of this toxic chemical in our food supply.

↘ Bats are vital to healthy ecosystems around the globe.

BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL Is making vital and significant achievements to save bats and their habitats.

BATS & COVID-19 While the exact chain of transmission that resulted in COVID-19 may never be established, what we know is this: ↘ The conservation of bats and their habitats helps create a healthier, safer world.

↘ Bat conservation is important for global communities.

And as COVID-importance of bats and the critical need for global bat conservation going forward.

That’s why protection of nature is such a critical part of the solution, especially in areas that are important for bats.

Protecting nature for bats not only helps ensure we keep intact the delicate web of life on our planet, it also means a safer, healthier world for all of us.

Searching Rwanda rainforest Bat Conservation International is on a mission to find and protect the critically endangered Hill’s Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus hilli ) in Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park.

Bat Conservation International and Nyungwe Park Rangers set up bat detectors.

Informed of the bats’ plight during a meeting with Florida partners, Bat Conservation International scientists quickly responded to the emergency.

Bat Conservation International research fellow monitors bat houses built for endangered species.

Protecting & restoring critical bat habitats Bat Conservation International’s habitat protection and restoration work involves assessing and documenting bat roosting sites, and seeing that those sites are preserved to sustain healthy bat populations. Surveyed more than abandoned mines, caves and roosts across the American West to determine active roosting sites and work with federal partners in protecting those sites.

Bat Conservation International staff repels into an abandoned mine.

Signed conservation agreements with eight rural communities in areas surrounding the only two known maternity roosts in northeast Mexico.

Joined partners on an expedition to collect agave palmeri seeds in the Chiricahua and Peloncilllo Mountains of southeast Arizona, to be raised in Borderlands Restoration Network and Gila Watershed Partnership greenhouses. Collected an additional seeds of four agave species to be grown in renovated community nurseries in northeast Mexico under the leadership of local conservation NGO Especies, Sociedad y Hábitat, A.C. and industry partner CEMEX.

Restoring agave habitat Bat Conservation International’s Agave Restoration Initiative sustains the endangered Mexican Long-nosed Bat (Leptonycteris nivalis) and Lesser Long-nosed Bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae ) that migrate between the arid deserts of the U.S. Southwest and central Mexico following cacti and agave blooms.

TO PRODUCE CONSERVATION SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE Developing solutions to emerging and serious threats to bats requires strong science, innovative research, leadingedge technology, and dedicated scientists and researchers.

We focus on improving knowledge of bat populations and invest in necessary research and partnerships to inform sound conservation decisions.

Sharing data among partners is vital to conservation.

The North American Bat Monitoring Program works to improve bat conservation across North America.

We’re working with energy partners to better understand bat behavior around wind turbines as we test scalable and practical solutions that enable renewable energy production and save bats.

Awarded multi-year contracts from the U.S. Department of Energy to build collaborative systems in curtailing bat mortalities caused by wind turbines.

Participated in a groundbreaking workshop to investigate the risk to bats from offshore wind energy development in the state of New York.

Bat Conservation International staff scale towering turbines to test solutions.

Recognized as Evidence Champions by Conservation Evidence, a certification that recognizes our commitment to providing science-founded evidence in our conservation actions.

UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE BATS HAVE IN SUSTAINING HEALTHy ECOSySTEmS Bat Conservation International is committed to educating people about the importance of bats and bat conservation.

We know that personal experiences in nature — and personal understanding of the contributions bats provide to healthy ecosystems — are important for saving bat species.

Organized bird and butterfly surveys to add to important understanding of the Preserve’s remarkable diversity.

Bat Conservation International owns and manages Bracken Cave and the surrounding land.

http://www.batcon.org/our-work/protect-restore-landscapes/bracken-cave-preserve/ 20 bat events in seven days Bat Conservation International is proud to be a partner in Bat Week — an annual, international celebration of the role of bats in nature.

Launched Bat Conservation International’s Bat Walks Program in partnership with The Brown Foundation, Cibolo Nature Center, Dallas Zoo, Houston Zoo, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and San Antonio Zoo in Texas, and with Zoo Miami in Florida.

WORLD Bat Conservation International experienced a year unlike any other.

Thanks to the increasing generosity of our community, we were able to defend bats and their role in nature.

Bat Conservation International researchers survey and monitor Bracken Cave.

Now I feel it is even more important to support bat conservation because work like yours is what will keep us from having new global pandemics in the future.

For many decades, Defenders has led the effort to protect and restore the gray wolf, and we will continue to fight the unscientific and hostile anti-wolf policies that impede conservation progress and will carry on our unrelenting battle to restore federal protections for this iconic keystone species.

POLICY EXPERTS pushed forward on the urgent need for a National Biodiversity Strategy (NBS), an all-of-government approach to address the unprecedented loss of wildlife and habitat we are experiencing.

By defending, funding and expanding our national wildlife refuges, we will directly address biodiversity loss and climate change while promoting increased equitable access to nature.

From panthers and sea turtles in Florida to wolves, bison and black-footed ferrets in Montana, Defenders’ conservation experts were in the field saving wildlife all over the country.

CONSERVATION INNOVATION EXPERTS provided comprehensive analyses to guide policy and inform conservation strategies to reach the goal of protecting 30% of our terrestrial and marine systems by 2030 (“30x30”).

WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED MUCH THIS YEAR WORKING WITH AN ADMINISTRATION THAT VALUES SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION.

Our many successes include the return of protections to the Tongass National Forest in Alaska and the suspension of oil and gas leasing permits for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

More and more species, including manatees, Mexican gray wolves, polar bears and North Atlantic right whales, face the very real threat of extinction because of climate change, habitat loss, pollution and inadequate protections.

In our work we continue to demonstrate success by following the science, building partnerships, leading with innovative solutions and focusing on collaborative and practical approaches in defense of nature.

While highlighting some of our important conservation work and raising awareness of important conservation challenges, this family-friendly program will undoubtedly motivate a new, diverse generation of wildlife advocates and broaden our supporter base to advance our mission.

We aim to solve conservation challenges by collaborating and engaging with communities at the local level, by fighting for the protection of imperiled species in the courts and the halls of Congress and by defending our bedrock environmental laws, especially the Endangered Species Act, our nation’s most effective law to protect wildlife from extinction.

HARD-FOUGHT BATTLE TO PROTECT CALVING CARIBOU AND DENNING POLAR BEARS in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, Defenders celebrated President Biden’s suspension of the oil and gas leasing permits issued at the end of the previous administration.

TIRELESS LEGAL BATTLE TO PROTECT THE TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST in Alaska ended with success when the Biden administration announced full restoration of protections for this remarkable landscape, reinstating the National Roadless Conservation Area rule and shutting down the largest old-growth forest logging project proposed in decades.

AS A RESULT OF A DEFENDERS LAWSUIT, we celebrated a victory for protecting Bristol Bay in Alaska when the Biden administration announced the restoration of protections for this spectacular marine ecosystem.

DEFENDERS CELEBRATED A COURT VICTORY TO PROTECT IMPERILED POLAR BEARS from drilling when a judge ruled that federal permit authorizations for ConocoPhilips’ Willow drilling project in Alaska violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act.

Defenders will continue to defend our critical environmental laws and all the imperiled species that rely on them for their survival.

We helped establish a conservation herd on protected grasslands in Colorado (and celebrated the birth of and continued our support of the bison conservation transfer program by transporting Yellowstone bison to the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana that would have otherwise been sent to slaughter.

DEFENDERS CONTINUED TO LEAD EFFORTS TO PROTECT THE FLORIDA MANATEE, a beloved species that suffered the deadliest year on record in and lack of warm water habitat.

Defenders led advocacy and education aimed at restoring the natural flow of the dammed Ocklawaha River, which would provide critical warm-water habitat that manatees need to survive.

Defenders’ legal team continued to fight for manatees in the courts, holding government agencies accountable for protecting critical habitat and addressing the devastating water pollution that is killing the seagrass and causing manatees to starve.

➤ Include Defenders as a beneficiary in your will, living trust, retirement plan, life insurance policy or other estate plan, and leave a lasting mark on wildlife and the world by helping us continue our conservation work.

In this report, you’ll find EDF partnering with others to change the way natural resources are managed, strengthening the ability of forests, coastal wetlands and other ecosystems to reduce climate impacts.

You’ll see us helping people in areas ravaged by storms, in the droughtstricken Western U.S., and in communities harmed the most by past pollution.

And we’re speeding the transition to electric cars and trucks and toward a global clean energy economy with no net climate pollution.

For example, EDF climate scientist Ilissa Ocko and her colleagues have published new research demonstrating that in the next methane — a long-underrated greenhouse gas — will do more to warm the Earth than all the carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.

This work has helped move methane to the top of the climate change agenda.

In fact, at the recent COPcountries pledged to cut methane pollution at least 30% by 2030.

Cutting methane is the fastest way to slow the rate of global warming and reduce the impact of climate change on our lives.

GETTY We drive global action to cut methane pollution — the fastest way to slow climate change.

The world must take swift action to reduce methane emissions.

Research led by EDF climate scientist Ilissa Ocko, published this spring, came to a striking conclusion: concerted global action, using existing technologies, could cut methane pollution in half by the rate of global warming by as much as 30%.

Soon afterward, the authoritative U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscored the need to slash methane.

methane at the forefront of the global climate agenda.

oil and gas and large-scale agriculture, at least by 2030.

“The Methane Moment is here,” says Mark Brownstein, EDF Senior VP of Energy Transition.

government, industry, nonprofits and academia to develop new rules to limit methane emissions.

U.S., we helped build bipartisan support for a successful effort in Congress to overturn a Trump-era rollback on regulations to reduce methane pollution from new oil and gas facilities.

Because of this work, the EPA, led by EDF alumnus Michael Regan, is poised to strengthen and expand those rules to cover, for the first time, the roughly of the industry’s methane pollution.

It will locate and measure methane emissions worldwide, turn its data around in days and offer it free to everyone.

On the ground Laurie Anderson, a Colorado organizer for EDF-affiliate Moms Clean Air Force, lives half a mile from federal rules to limit the oil and gas industry’s emissions of methane and toxic air pollution.

power of CO2 in the first 20 years after its release.

Methane detective “Reducing COimportant and will benefit my grandkids.

As part of an EDF initiative, a technician in Romania checks for methane emissions at a natural gas facility.

the oil and gas industry, but we need to do more.

In 2018, EDF announced that it would launch a satellite to locate and measure methane pollution worldwide.

It will be able to scan millions of oil and gas sites around the globe and hundreds of thousands of miles of major pipelines.

It will also make its data public in order to hold oil and gas producers responsible for reducing their pollution.