Fred Krupp

Krupp is the president of the Environmental Defense Fund

Recent Articles

Column: How Carbon Markets Can Deliver to the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

Carbon markets can provide billions of dollars towards climate solutions and support equitable and just economic development.

By Fred Krupp and Video by Andrew D. Johnson

New EPA Standards Will Expand Americans’ Car Options

Why new EPA standards will give consumers better and healthier choices for cars

By Fred Krupp

Daniel Nocera

Whenever I feel overwhelmed by the challenges we face to reinvent the energy economy and to stop global warming, talking to someone like MIT chemist Daniel Nocera does me good. Nocera, 51, is working to invent a way out of this disaster. He's developing a new method for making hydrogen fuel from water, taking his cue from plants' photosynthetic ability to split water using sunlight. His discovery makes it conceivable that by midcentury we could satisfy our global energy needs by splitting — each second — just a third of the water in MIT's swimming pool. That's all we'd need to power the world.

By Fred Krupp

Isaac Berzin

Isaac Berzin recently signed a $92 million contract to grow the stuff most people scrape out of their fish tanks. His improbably valuable crop is algae, which may one day provide us with a way out of our dependency on fossil fuels and the climatological mess they're making.

By Fred Krupp
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