Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

As storms, drought, wildfires, and other disasters create a staggering bill of damages, “the question before the country is, who will pay it, and how?” More from Matthew Tejada, NRDC senior vice president of environmental health, on the Supreme Court’s first case of the session:

Big Oil is once again trying to avoid accountability for their part in the climate crisis—this time, on the biggest legal stage in the country.

Today, the Supreme Court is hearing the first case of their new term. Big Oil giants ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy are trying to throw out a lawsuit by Boulder, Colorado, seeking to hold the oil and gas companies responsible for the damage caused by their climate pollution. And ExxonMobil is hoping the Court will go a step further and stop anyone from holding them accountable in any state’s court system. The case comes nearly 50 years after Exxon accurately projected how burning oil and gas would drive up global temperatures. Those records only became public in 2015, after decades of Exxon and other oil companies downplaying the threat of climate change. In that time, communities have faced countless climate disasters, like floods, fires, and droughts. Big Oil has a responsibility to clean up their mess.

The oil and gas industry can secure public lands for as little as $10, but most of these lands aren’t actually prime for fossil fuel extraction. Greedy companies are trying to game the system by stockpiling public lands for their sole benefit. The Trump administration is offering handouts to the fossil fuel industry, even in areas that don’t make sense—enriching companies while locking up our public lands indefinitely and shortchanging Americans in the long run.

As data center development rapidly expands, NRDC Chief Programs Officer, Julie Cerqueira, explains from #ClimateWeekNYC why strong safeguards are needed to protect communities and the environment.

After the Trump administration cancelled dozens of grants to boost clean American manufacturing, they refused to tell us why. So, NRDC took them to court and got hundreds of pages of heavily redacted documents. They show that the advisory committee was all political appointees, a highly unusual makeup, and that DOGE staff initially dictated how the committee should run. Even before the committee conducted any official reviews, there was a DOGE list called “Low Hanging Fruit,” likely of potential grants to cut. The Department of Energy still has thousands more pages of documents it needs to produce and NRDC will hold the department accountable. But what we’ve seen so far already lays out a troubling possibility that the Trump administration once again directed public money for political ends.

Immense gratitude to the NRDC team for creating spaces at New York Climate Week to tackle the interlinked climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises. Every win on every scale matters!

NRDC’s director of insurance and financial risk, Alfonso Pating, explains why some homeowners are getting priced out of having insurance. Listen to the latest episode of What the Earth: https://lnkd.in/eQzMgeZt

Data centers are rapidly expanding, and so are the demands they place on electricity, water, and land use around the world. Yet, people living near proposed projects often lack the information they need to understand the impacts and make their voices heard before decisions are made. NRDC senior advocate Shruti Shukla explains why environmental transparency is essential for AI governance worldwide.

NRDC’s director of insurance and financial risk, Alfonso Pating, walks us through how the climate crisis is changing the insurance industry. Listen to the latest episode of What the Earth: https://lnkd.in/eQzMgeZt