Last month, RFF-grantee, Earthrights, the organization representing the City and County of Boulder, Colorado in its climate lawsuit against ExxonMobil and two Suncor entities, successfully defeated the defendants’ motions to dismiss the lawsuit. This important ruling by the Boulder Court allows the lawsuit to proceed toward discovery and trial. You can find the full ruling ...
RFF Senior Advisor Bakeyah Nelson refuted criticism of “virtue signaling” by organizations that decline investments from fossil fuel companies, writing in the Houston Chronicle: “The oil and gas industry is certainly aware of its negative public image amid ongoing revelations about its disinformation and climate-denial campaigns throughout the past 40 years. In response, these...
RFF's climate work realized a breakthrough when Vermont passed the first climate superfund law in the nation to make polluters pay for the damage and adaptation costs caused by their greenhouse gas emissions. It is an important step to address environmental responsibility and could set a precedent for other states to follow suit.
RFF’s director authored this guest essay...
After the Vermont House passed the Climate Superfund Act this week, it is the closest a bill like this has ever been to becoming law. This is a major victory for our grantee, Vermont Public Interest Group, that led a so-far successful legislative campaign. Now the bill goes back to the Senate for a final review before it is delivered to Governor Phil Scott. Governor Scott might veto it, in...
Sarah Brennan, RFF’s Associate Director for the Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas, published an op-ed in The Hill on what the Biden administration needs to do to transition away from fossil fuels. She mentioned two key issues the Funder Collaborative is working on: gas exports and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
The Senate Budget Committee held a hearing to review a trove of new fossil fuel industry documents that blasted Big Oil for their decades of “climate denial, deception, and doublespeak” and revealed its evolving tactics to delay climate action. The documents provided another inside-look into the persistent greenwashing and propaganda that Big Oil continues to deploy to display a...
Bakeyah Nelson, Senior Advisor for the Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas, pens an Op-Ed in Inside Philanthropy urging donors to reject funding carbon capture and storage and instead prioritize funding for effective, reparative solutions that bring about a just energy transition.
Last May, RFF Associate Director Larry Shapiro and Dr. Robert Bullard co-authored an Op-Ed in The New York Times urging lawmakers to include environmental protections for marginalized communities in the debt ceiling deal.
Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D. is founding director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice and distinguished professor of urban planning and...
Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas senior advisors Larry Shapiro and Sarah Thomas are featured in the Houston Chronicle for their write-up of the cancellation of the proposed PennEast pipeline project that would run between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.