CARLISLE, Pa., Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Dickinson College will welcome leaders from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) for a public conversation, “Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition to Low-Carbon Solutions,” on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed and recorded for broader access. Additional information is available at dickinson.edu/EDF.
The event will feature a conversation with EDF’s Jon Goldstein, associate vice president, energy transition; Natasha Vidangos, associate vice president, innovation and technology policy; and Morgan Rote, senior policy director, fuels and feedstocks. Neil Leary, director of Dickinson’s Center for Sustainability Education, will serve as moderator.
EDF is the 2025 recipient of The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism at Dickinson College. This annual $100,000 prize is awarded to individuals or organizations significantly impacting responsible action for the planet and its people.
With more than 3.5 million members, supporters and activists, EDF creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. Working across the globe, EDF links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to turn solutions into action. It works for progress on methane pollution, clean electricity, clean transportation, forests, fisheries and oceans, healthy communities, fuels and feedstocks, agriculture, water, food, carbon markets and other critical environmental challenges.
EDF pioneered groundbreaking corporate partnerships, including Walmart’s successful effort to cut a billion metric tons of climate pollution and GM’s plan to sell only zero-emission vehicles by 2035. In 2023, the organization helped secure commitments from 50 oil and gas companies, representing 40 percent of global oil sales, to reduce their methane pollution by 90 percent by 2030. In 2024, EDF launched MethaneSAT, a satellite to measure and map methane pollution and help usher in a new era of climate accountability. It was a primary advocate for the overhaul of America’s chemical safety laws in 2016 and the passage of historic climate investments in 2022.    Â
The public conversation is part of a multi-day residency where EDF staff will visit classes and engage with the Dickinson community. Previously, the Rose-Walters Prize has honored climate advocates including Katharine Hayhoe, Tara Houska and Bill McKibben and organizations including the Our Children’s Trust and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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