Energy Exchange

By Adam Kurland, Attorney, Federal Energy, Environmental Defense Fund and Nicole Pavia, Director, Clean Energy Infrastructure, Clean Air Task Force

• Early, genuine engagement turns potential opposition into partnership — accelerating transmission projects and delivering shared benefits.
• The most successful developers align projects with local priorities, from co-ownership models to infrastructure upgrades, creating lasting trust and progress.

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By Courtney Grimes 

• EDF’s new peer-reviewed perspective highlights how efforts to cut greenhouse gases from planes must also reduce harmful pollutants that disproportionately affect nearby and disadvantaged communities. 
• Lowering the aromatic and sulfur content of jet fuel can cut particle pollution, improve public health, and reduce contrail formation — making skies cleaner and aviation more sustainable. 

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By Mark Lunt and Mina Berkow  

• The first study of its kind in Japan discovered Osaka’s urban emissions several times higher than official inventories report.  
• Up to 75% of Osaka’s street-level methane emissions came from man-made sources such as natural gas used in restaurants and buildings, revealing an overlooked but promising opportunity to cut climate pollution and save energy.   

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By Curt Stokes, Director and Senior Attorney, Environmental Defense Fund

• A 20% hydrogen blend by volume wastes 70% of its energy before it reaches households, demands 1.8 times more clean electricity than New Jersey needs to decarbonize its entire economy, and cuts building emissions by only 5%.
• By contrast, electric heat pumps deliver the same heat output using 87% less renewable electricity and can nearly eliminate building emissions.

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By Dakoury Godo-Solo, Environmental Defense Fund and Lidiya Kassahun and Margarita Parra, Clean Energy Works

• Rural electric co-ops face both challenges and opportunities as electric trucks and buses drive new demand. Proactive planning is essential to avoid costly grid upgrades, as well as missed economic and public health benefits.
• A new report prepared by Clean Energy Works for EDF makes the case that by acting proactively now, rural co-ops can accommodate (and even attract) medium and heavy-duty EVs while also reducing long-term grid upgrade costs to their members.

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By Erica Morehouse

• The International Maritime Organization will have its chance to show leadership by adopting the Net Zero Framework, a set of global measures that include a fuel standard that accounts for the full lifecycle emissions of marine fuels and a legally binding greenhouse gas pricing mechanism to help steer international shipping toward net-zero emissions by 2050.
• For shipping’s transition to be lasting and effective, climate action must be Just and Equitable. By fairly addressing unequal impacts and benefits and amplifying the voices of those most affected, Member States can ensure solutions that are both impactful and sustainable for all.

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