Environmental Defense is a public interest group founded in 1967 and concerned primarily with the protection of the environment and the concomitant improvement of public health. Originally called Environmental Defense Fund, the name was shortened to...

A non-profit group dedicated to maintenance of a clean environment, the EDF brings suits when environmental issues...

Environmental Defense (formerly known as Environmental Defense Fund or EDF) is a US-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group. The group is known for its work on issues including global warming, ecosystem restoration, oceans, and human health. It is...

Remarks as delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, February 5, 2003. Thank you Admiral [Gaffney, NDU President]. When I look at my schedule for the rest of the day I think I might like...

The struggle for environmental justice in the United States began to grow in the 1980s when activists started fighting to end the inequities faced by residents of low-income communities, often minorities, many of whom bear a disproportionate burden of environmental health hazards. In...

Setting strict fishing limits and giving fishermen flexibility in how they divide their catch are key steps to rebuilding depleted fish stocks and saving embattled fishing communities, according to a study by an environmental group.So-called catch share programs that allocate a percentage of the overall...

Save the species, save a buck. Landowners frustrated by the Endangered Species Act might get a carrot instead of the stick under a proposed revision of the law that would offer them tax incentives to give the critters a home. That approach is emerging as...