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The organization advocates using sound Science , good Economics and good Law to find solutions that work.

Some of the key accomplishments of Environmental Defense include:
Previous Successes:
  • 1967 –A small group of scientists forms the organization and sets out to win a nationwide ban on DDT , which had been harming wildlife and was found in human mother's milk. The ban helps bald eagles and other magnificent birds rebound across the country.

  • 1970 - Efforts bring all hunted Whales onto the U.S. Endangered Species List .

  • 1974 - An Environmental Defense study of Mississippi River water helps pass the Safe Drinking Water Act , establishing the first comprehensive health standards for water nationwide.

  • 1985 - Helped convince federal regulators to phase out lead from gasoline, leading to a dramatic decline in childhood Lead Poisoning .

  • 1987 - Played a key role in the treaty to phase out the use of CFCs , chemicals that damage the Earth’s Ozone Layer .

  • 1990 - Designed Title IV of the Clean Air Act , which incorporates innovative market-based methods to cut air pollution and acid rain. The measures reduce sulfur dioxide pollution faster than expected, and at a fraction of the cost.

  • 1995 - Designed the Safe Harbor plan that gives landowners new incentives to help endangered species on their property.

  • 2000 - Seven of the world's largest corporations join Environmental Defense in a partnership to address global warming, setting firm targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

  • 2001 - Helped create the 1,200-mile-long Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve .

  • 2004 - The first FedEx hybrid electric trucks hit the road, the result of a four-year partnership with FedEx to transform truck technology. The new vehicles cut smog-forming pollution by 65%, reduce soot by 96%—and go 57% farther on a gallon of fuel.





The founders of Environmental Defense, Art Cooley and Charles Wurster , discovered in the mid 1960's that the peregrine falcon and other large raptors were rapidly disappearing. Their research uncovered a link between the spraying of DDT to kill mosquitos and weakening egg shells of the large birds. They started Environmental Defense to seek a ban on DDT in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. They were successful. They then campaigned to ban DDT statewide and succeeded as well. They then took their efforts national.

The group is headquartered out of New York, with offices nationwide, and scientists and policy specialists working worldwide.


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