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{{#Show badges:|CoalSwarm}}{{#Show badges: | ToxicSludge}}'''Environmental Defense Fund''' (EDF), run by [[Fred Krupp]], is a US-based [[Environmental organization]] and is considered a [[Big Green]] environmental group, one of the largest and most prominent in the world. It describes itself as being "dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem. Guided by science, Environmental Defense evaluates environmental problems and works to create and advocate solutions that win lasting political, economic and social support because they are nonpartisan, cost-efficient and fair." EDF prides itself on the formal corporate partnerships it forms with companies such as [[McDonald's]], [[Walmart]], [[Kohlberg Kravis Roberts]] and most recently [[The Carlyle Group]], home of [[Synagro]] the [[sewage sludge]] giant.

[[Sharon Beder]] notes that: "The influence of neoliberal think tanks on environmental policy has been pervasive. Yet their efforts According to replace legislative solutions with free market programs have been accepted largely without scrutiny of the ideological agenda behind them. Many environmentalists have been persuaded by the rhetoric of free market environmentalism. For example the Environmental Defense Fund has been at the forefront of the push for tradeable pollution rights and the [[Natural Resources Defense Council]] has also supported them." its own guidelines <ref>[httphttps://www.herinstsourcewatch.org/sbederimages/enveconomics3/thinktanks3b/Corporate_Guidelines.htmlpdf EDF Corporate Funding Guidelines, 2011]</ref>, EDF does NOT accept direct funding from corporations that are engaged "in any significant activities that are in direct conflict with EDF’s environmental protection objectives or activities."  However, this is extremely misleading, since EDF does aggressively seek funding from employees, board members and investors in corporations including (and probably especially) its formal corporate partners. EDF also considers on a case by case basis whether to accept major donations from foundations set up by corporations.

According to its own guidelines <ref>It would seem that by partnering with [[http://sourcewatch.org/images/3/3b/Corporate_Guidelines.pdf EDF Corporate Funding Guidelines, 2011Synagro]]</ref>, EDF does accept direct funding from corporations that are engaged "is in any significant activities that are fact endorsing the practices of Synagro in direct conflict with EDF’s environmental protection objectives or activities." This is misleadingdumping sludge on farms and gardens, since EDF does aggressively seek funding from employees, board members and investors in such corporations, including misleading millions of people by selling its formal corporate partners such sewage sludge products as Carlyle Group"compost" and "natural organic fertilizer. And EDF also considers on a case by case basis donations from foundations set up by such corporations. "

It would seem that by partnering with According to its own guidelines <ref>[[Synagro]https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/3/3b/Corporate_Guidelines.pdf EDF Corporate Funding Guidelines, 2011] </ref>, EDF is does accept direct funding from corporations that are engaged "in fact endorsing the practices of Synagro any significant activities that are in dumping sludge on farms and gardensdirect conflict with EDF’s environmental protection objectives or activities." This is misleading, since EDF does aggressively seek funding from employees, board members and investors in misleading millions of people by selling such corporations, including its sewage sludge products formal corporate partners such as "compost" and "natural organic fertilizerCarlyle Group. And EDF also considers on a case by case basis donations from foundations set up by such corporations."

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