Helping a billion people breathe cleaner air
The problem: Air pollution is a global public health crisis and the fourth leading cause of death globally. Nine out of 10 people around the world breathe unhealthy air, and burning fossil fuels is both the largest source of air pollution and the biggest cause of climate change.
What we’re doing about it: We’re working to help 1 billion people breathe cleaner air in this decade. By pinpointing local pollution in countries around the world, we’re giving policymakers, community groups and the private sector the tools they need to reduce pollution and hold polluters accountable.
Our work reducing air and climate pollution
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The unequal burden of air pollution
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How are our air and climate connected?
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Air tracker shows path pollution takes through neighborhoods
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Cleaning the air for everyone
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Air pollution varies dramatically — new tech helps us see it
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EDF launches “Reversing Childhood Asthma” education campaign
Updates
Read the latest articles, blogs and press releases on clean air.
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Unveiling EDF’s Chemical Exposure Action Map
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Supreme Court Hears Shadow Docket Challenges to EPA’s Life-Saving Good Neighbor Rule
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Meet the rancher exposing the dangers of natural gas to our health
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EPA Acts to Protect Millions of Americans from Soot Pollution
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Toxic chemical under fresh scrutiny a year after East Palestine train crash
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Senate Confirms Joe Goffman for Head of EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation
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Our clean air experts
We bring wide-ranging perspectives and skills to our clean air work. Meet some of the people who make it happen.
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Sarah Vogel
Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities
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Ramon Alvarez
Associate Chief Scientist
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Julia Gohlke
Lead Senior Scientist, Health
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Xinhao Huang
Senior Manager, Global Clean Air China / Environmental Policy
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Aileen Nowlan
U.S. Policy Director, Global Clean Air Initiative
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Sergio Sánchez
Senior Policy Director, Global Clean Air
Partner perspective
Today, more than ever, we must protect people, especially the most vulnerable, from environmental pollution. EDF is a critical partner in this effort.
Georges C. Benjamin, M.D.
American Public Health Association
Media contact
Cecile Brown
(202) 271-6534 (office)