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New York Passes Climate Superfund Law Requiring Polluters to Pay Their Fair Share of the Damage They Caused
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New York Passes Climate Superfund Law Requiring Polluters to Pay Their Fair Share of the Damage They Caused
Climate Accountability Initiative
New York—the state with the Nation's third-largest economy—enacted climate superfund legislation at the end of 2024, becoming the second state after Vermont to do so. This is a major victory for New Yorkers and the team of advocates, led by the New York Public Interest Research Group, that RFF organized to take on this historic legislative campaign. New York’s Climate...
Department of Energy Releases Study on the Impacts of Gas Exports
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Department of Energy Releases Study on the Impacts of Gas Exports
Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas
The Department of Energy released a long-waited study on the economic and environmental impacts of gas exports. The study showed that continued rise of gas exports could raise domestic gas prices, increase global GHG emissions, and negatively affect communities who live by the terminals. President Biden initiated the study in January 2024 when a pause was issued for approvals of new gas export...
IEEFA Releases Report on the Decline of Oil and Gas Sector’s Significance on Louisiana’s Economy
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IEEFA Releases Report on the Decline of Oil and Gas Sector’s Significance on Louisiana’s Economy
Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas
The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) issued a report showing the shrinking role of the petrochemical industry in Louisiana’s economy. While oil, gas and petrochemicals accounted for a third of the state’s GDP at the turn of the century, it now makes up just 14%.
RFF Grantee, Center for Climate Integrity, Featured in The New York Times for its Plastics Report
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RFF Grantee, Center for Climate Integrity, Featured in The New York Times for its Plastics Report
Climate Accountability Initiative
Last month, California filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil, the world’s largest producer of single-use plastic polymers, for plastic recycling fraud. ExxonMobil orchestrated a 50-year deceptive campaign that falsely promoted recycling as a solution to plastic waste, driving increased consumption of single-use plastics and fueling the global plastic pollution crisis. The...
DPI Partners, Gregory Edwards and Marcus Bass, Pen Op-Ed about the Nuanced Political Views of Black Men
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DPI Partners, Gregory Edwards and Marcus Bass, Pen Op-Ed about the Nuanced Political Views of Black Men
Rev. Dr. Gregory Edwards, the interim executive director of POWER Interfaith in Pennsylvania, and Marcus Bass, the deputy director of North Carolina Black Alliance, co-wrote an opinion piece featured in Newsweek about the need to understand the varied political views of black men. Read the full piece here.
Who Are the Black Swing Voters? DPI Fund Advisor, Prentiss Haney, Interviewed on the New York Times about the Black Values Research
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Who Are the Black Swing Voters? DPI Fund Advisor, Prentiss Haney, Interviewed on the New York Times about the Black Values Research
Prentiss Haney, a member of DPI Fund's advisory committee and former Executive Director of Ohio Organizing Collective, was interviewed by Astead Herndon of the New York Times for "The Run Up." The conversation walked through DPI's national Black values research and the implications from that research for the work to engage Black voters in the 2024 election. You can watch the...
DPI Partner, The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, Finds Missing Voters Through Relational Organizing
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DPI Partner, The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, Finds Missing Voters Through Relational Organizing
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a grantee and partner of the DPI Fund, was featured in Signal Cleveland for its voter engagement work. The article highlights OOC's efforts to find hundreds of thousands of eligible Ohio voters left behind by political campaigns. Read the full piece here.
Making Politics Work for Local Communities: DPI Partner, PICO California, Featured in Axios for their work to engage Latino farmworkers
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Making Politics Work for Local Communities: DPI Partner, PICO California, Featured in Axios for their work to engage Latino farmworkers
DPI Fund partner PICO California, a faith-based organizing network that operates nine federations across the state, was featured in an article in Axios highlighting its work to shift focus in the political ecosystem away from partisan battles toward solving local problems faced by the Latino community. PICO California’s outreach and civic engagement work is rooted in public opinion...
Damning Report on the Fraud of Plastic Recycling
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Damning Report on the Fraud of Plastic Recycling
Climate Accountability Initiative
RFF grantee, the Center for Climate Integrity, released an explosive report revealing that Big Oil and the plastics industry have been deceiving the public about the recyclability of plastics for over 50 years and are responsible for the current plastic pollution crisis. From the outset, petrochemical companies knew that recycling single-use plastic was both physically and financially...
The Latest in Climate Accountability Cases
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The Latest in Climate Accountability Cases
Climate Accountability Initiative
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 ...

News & Updates

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New York Passes Climate Superfund Law Requiring Polluters to Pay Their Fair Share of the Damage They Caused

Department of Energy Releases Study on the Impacts of Gas Exports

IEEFA Releases Report on the Decline of Oil and Gas Sector’s Significance on Louisiana’s Economy

RFF Grantee, Center for Climate Integrity, Featured in The New York Times for its Plastics Report

DPI Partners, Gregory Edwards and Marcus Bass, Pen Op-Ed about the Nuanced Political Views of Black Men

Who Are the Black Swing Voters? DPI Fund Advisor, Prentiss Haney, Interviewed on the New York Times about the Black Values Research

DPI Partner, The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, Finds Missing Voters Through Relational Organizing

Making Politics Work for Local Communities: DPI Partner, PICO California, Featured in Axios for their work to engage Latino farmworkers

Damning Report on the Fraud of Plastic Recycling

The Latest in Climate Accountability Cases