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'''Natural Resources Defense Council''' (NRDC) is a highly partisan, tax-exempt progressive environmental group that "was founded in 1970 by a group of law students and attorneys at the forefront of the environmental movement. Today's leadership team and board of trustees makes sure the organization continues to work to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities." 

In 2016, [[Rhea Suh]] of the [[Natural Resources Defense Council]] revealed that "NRDC has been working with China for 20 years."<ref>[https://www.nrdc.org/experts/rhea-suh/what-i-saw-china-will-help-change-world NRDC, What I Saw in China Will Help Change the World August 03, 2016 Rhea Suh]</ref>

The [[NRDC Action Fund]] is the 501(c)(4) affiliate of [[Natural Resources Defense Council]]. Before joining the [[Joe Biden|Biden Administration]], [[Gina McCarthy]] was President and CEO of the [[Natural Resources Defense Council]].

==Mission==

"We combine the power of more than three million members and online activists with the expertise of some 500 scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild."<ref>[https://www.nrdc.org/about#mission mission, accessed April 8 2017]</ref>

==Letter to Stop Fuel Subsidies==

In June, 2021, hundreds of environmental groups signed a letter to stop fuel subsidies:<ref>[http://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2021/06/End-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-letter_final.pdf Letter: 500+ Groups Urge U.S. Congress to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies (accessed July 11, 2021)]</ref>,<ref>[https://priceofoil.org/2021/06/29/500-groups-urge-congress-eliminate-fossil-fuel-subsidies/ Over 500 Groups Call on Congress to Eliminate Fossil Fuel Subsidies with Letter, Rally, Petitions in Week of Action (accessed July 11, 2021)]</ref>  

::FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

::June 29, 2021

::Contact: [[Collin Rees]], collin@priceofoil.org

::Over 500 Groups Call on Congress to Eliminate Fossil Fuel Subsidies with Letter, Rally, Petitions in Week of Action

::WASHINGTON, DC — Over 500 organizations, including Oil Change International, Sierra Club, Oxfam America, Greenpeace USA, Friends of the Earth Action, Food & Water Watch, NRDC Action Fund, and a wide range of health, faith, environmental and other groups across the United States released a letter today calling on congressional leadership to eliminate the fossil fuel subsidies embedded in the U.S. tax code. They also staged an in-person rally on the National Mall urging Congress to ensure that fossil fuel subsidy removal is included in any major legislation advanced this year.

::In a letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to support the “elimination of fossil fuel subsidies and other giveaways in any infrastructure, economic recovery and/or reconciliation legislative package,” 513 groups wrote: 

::“It is past time to remove the burden of dirty energy support from the public and instead turn the efforts of the government to supporting clean energy and the jobs it generates. Action now will help us protect the climate, promote a more equitable, clean energy economy for America, and strengthen international leadership.”

::In addition to the joint letter to Congress, activists delivered nearly 150,000 petitions calling for an end to fossil fuel subsidies to senators and representatives as part of the End Fossil Fuel Subsidies Week of Action, which is ongoing.

::“Deadly public subsidies to Big Oil, Gas, and Coal have been driving climate chaos and harming frontline communities for far too long,” said [[Collin Rees]], Senior Campaigner at [[Oil Change International]]. “The success of the clean energy transition will hinge on whether we’re able to wind down the political power of the fossil fuel industry — eliminating subsidies to oil, gas, and coal companies is a key first step.”

::The groups cite Pelosi’s and Schumer’s own calls for eliminating subsidies, writing:

::“In 2011, you rose [..] in support of eliminating a raft of fossil fuel subsidies. You highlighted the injustice and destructiveness of these giveaways to an industry responsible for the destruction of communities, nature, and climate. Fossil fuels are outdated energy sources that produce enormous levels of pollution that harm our communities, natural areas, and climate. These impacts fall hardest on historically marginalized communities, including Black and Indigenous communities.”

::In 2011, Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi|Pelosi]] said on the House floor, “It’s long past time to turn off the spigot of public funds flowing to Big Oil…so I rise to ask my colleagues today: Should the American taxpayers continue to subsidize Big Oil’s profits?”

::Likewise, Senator [[Chuck Schumer|Schumer]] said on the Senate floor, “You don’t have to worry about [the fossil fuel industry’s] desire to explore. They are looking every place they can. They don’t have to have a subsidy to do it…so the time to repeal these giveaways is now.”

::Fossil fuel subsidies are not only a gross taxpayer abuse, but also help incentivize the development and operation of oil and gas wells that heavily impact the health of communities around the country, as new research from the Stockholm Environment Institute clearly shows. The Biden Administration’s budget aims to cut $120 billion in fossil fuel subsidies over the next 10 years, and momentum is growing on Capitol Hill, with both the Clean Energy for America Act and the End Polluter Welfare Act gaining steam. 

::“Using taxpayer money and government resources to support the burning of fossil fuels is helping industry harm us,” said [[Sujatha Bergen]], senior advisor to the [[NRDC Action Fund]]. “It is well past time to end taxpayer support for these wasteful and outdated technologies that are so destructive to communities and nature.”

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*[[Adorers of the Blood of Christ, U.S. Region]] – National
*[[Adrian Dominican Sisters]] – Michigan
*[[Advocates for the Environment]] – California
*[[Advocates for Springfield]] – New York
*[[Affordable Beauty: Photo Collage, Photography, Poetry]] – New York
*[[Alabama Interfaith Power & Light]] – Alabama
*[[Alaska Community Action on Toxics]] – Alaska
*[[Alliance for Climate Education]] – National
*[[Alliance to Protect Our People and the Places We Live]] – North Carolina
*[[Alliance for the Wild Rockies]] – Northern Rocky Mountains
*[[Alpha Epsilon Lambda]] – National
*[[American Family Voices]] – National
*[[American Federation of Government Employees Local 704]] – Great Lakes
*[[American Public Health Association]] – National
*[[American Sustainable Business Council]] – National
*[[Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona]] – Arizona
*[[Animals Are Sentient Beings]] – National
*[[Anthropocene Alliance]] – National
*[[Appraccel]] – California
*[[Arm in Arm]] – National
*[[ART NOT WAR]] – National
*[[Ashfield Alliance]] – Massachusetts
*[[Atchafalaya Basinkeeper]] – Louisiana
*[[Aytzim: Ecological Judaism]] – National
*[[Azul]] – National
*[[Balance & Accuracy in Journalism]] – North Carolina
*[[Beloved Earth Community of The Riverside Church]] – New York
*[[Benedictine University Faculty]] – Illinois
*[[Berks Gas Truth]] – Pennsylvania
*[[Better Path Coalition]] – Pennsylvania
*[[Beyond Extreme Energy]] – National
*[[Big Reuse]] – New York
*[[Blue Future]] National
*[[Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League]] – Alabama / Georgia / North Carolina / South Carolina / Tennessee / Virginia
*[[Bold Alliance]] – National
*The [[Borneo Project]] – California
*[[Breach Collective]] – Pacific Northwest / National
*[[Breast Cancer Prevention Partners]] – National
*[[Breathe Project]] – Pennsylvania
*[[Bronx Climate Justice North]] – New York
*[[Bronx Jews for Climate Action]] – New York
*[[Bucks Environmental Action]] – Pennsylvania
*[[Build A Movement 2022]] – National
*[[Businesses for a Livable Climate]] – National
*[[California Businesses for a Livable Climate]] – California
*[[California Democratic Party Environmental Caucus]] – California
*[[California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus]] – California
*[[California Environmental Justice Alliance]] – California
*[[Call to Action Colorado]] – Colorado
*[[Campus Climate Corps]] – Florida
*[[Carolina Biodiesel]] – North Carolina
*[[Cascadia Wildlands]] – Pacific Northwest
*[[Catalyst Miami]] – Florida
*[[Catskill Mountainkeeper]] – New York
*[[Catholic Network US]] – National
*[[Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church Environmental Justice Ministry]] – Maryland
*[[Center for Biological Diversity]] – National
*[[Center for the Blue Economy at Middlebury Institute of International Studies]] – California
*[[Center for Civic Policy]] – New Mexico
*[[Center for a Competitive Waste Industry]] – National
*[[Center for Environmentally Recycled Building Alternatives]] – Arizona / California
*[[Center for International Environmental Law]] – National
*[[Central Maryland Beekeepers Association]] – Maryland
*[[CEO Pipe Organs]] – Wisconsin
*[[Change the Chamber]] – National
*[[Charleston Climate Coalition]] – South Carolina
*[[Chautauqua-Conewango Consortium]] – New York / Pennsylvania
*[[Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective]] – South Dakota
*[[Chicago Area Peace Action]] – Illinois
*[[Chicago Asian Americans for Environmental Justice]] – Illinois
*[[Christian Council of Delmarva]] – Delaware
*[[Church Women United in New York State]] – New York
*[[Citizens Awareness Network]] – National
*[[Citizens for Clean Air & Water in Brazoria County]] – Texas
*[[Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two]] – Michigan
*[[Clean Energy Action]] – National
*[[Clean Water Action]] – National
*[[CLEO Institute]] – Florida
*[[Climate Action Campaign of the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship]] – California
*[[Climate Action Group at Seattle Insight Meditation Society]] – Washington
*[[Climate Action Rhode Island / 350 Rhode Island]] – Rhode Island
*[[Climate Action Team of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis]] – Oregon
*[[Climate Advocates Voces Unidas]] – New Mexico
*[[The Climate Center]] – California
*[[Climate Crisis Policy]] – National
*[[Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy]] – National
*[[Climate Hawks Vote]] – National
*[[Climate Health Now]] – California
*The [[Climate Mobilization]] – National
*[[Climate Reality Project Baja Arizona]] – Arizona
*[[Climate Reality Project Bay Area]] – California
*[[Climate Reality Project Chicago Metro]] – Illinois
*[[Climate Reality Project Massachusetts Southcoast]] – Massachusetts
*[[Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeline]] – New Jersey
*[[Coalition Against Pipelines]] – Texas
*[[Coalition for Outreach, Policy, & Education]] – New York
*[[Colorado Businesses for a Livable Climate]] – Colorado
*[[Colorado Small Business Coalition]] – Colorado
*[[Columbus Community Bill of Rights]] – Ohio
*[[Communities for a Better Environment]] – California
*[[Community Action Works Campaigns]] – Connecticut / Maine / Massachusetts / New Hampshire / Rhode Island / Vermont
*[[Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment]] – New York
*[[Community Power]] – Minnesota
*[[Compressor Free Franklin]] – New York
*[[Concerned Ohio River Residents]] – Ohio River Valley
*[[Conejo Climate Coalition]] – California
*[[Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, U.S. Provinces]] – National
*[[Congregation of Saint Joseph Peace & Justice Team]] – National
*[[Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes]] – Wisconsin
*[[Cooperative Energy Futures]] – Minnesota
*[[Corporate Accountability]] – National
*[[Corvallis Climate Action Alliance]] – Oregon
*[[Corvallis Interfaith Climate Justice Committee]] – Oregon
*[[Covenant Tribal Solar Initiative]] – National
*[[Croatan Institute]] – National
*[[Daily Acts]] – California
*[[Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action]] – National
*[[DC Dorothy Day Catholic Worker]] – District of Columbia
*[[Defend Our Health]] – Maine
*[[Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida]]
*The [[Democracy Collaborative]] – National
*[[DirtyGirlsAg]] – Florida
*[[Divest New York]] – New York
*[[DNC Environment & Climate Crisis Council]] – National
*[[Dogwood Alliance]] – Southeast
*[[Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa]] – National
*[[Dominican Sisters of Sparkill]] – New York
*[[Don't Gas the Meadowlands Coalition]] – New Jersey
*[[Don't Waste Arizona]] – Arizona
*[[Drawdown Bay Area]] – California
*[[Earth Action]] – Gulf South
*The [[Earth Bill Network]] – National
*[[Earth Day Initiative]] – National
*[[Earth Day Network]] – National
*[[Earthjustice]] – National
*[[Earthkeeper Health Resources]] – National
*[[Earthworks]] – National
*[[Ecoaction Committee of Green Party of the United States]] – National
*[[EcoEquity]] – California
*[[EcoHealth Network]] – National
*[[Eco-Healthy Solutions]] – Georgia
*[[Eco-Logic]] – New York
*[[Eco-Poetry]] – National
*[[Elders Climate Action]] – National
*[[Electric Auto Association Central Coast California]] – California
*[[Elgin Green Groups 350]] – Illinois
*[[Elmirans & Friends Against Fracking]] – New York
*[[Empower Our Future]] – Colorado
*[[Empowering Pacific Islander Communities]] – National
*[[Endangered Habitats League]] – California
*The [[Enviro Show]] – National
*[[Environeers]] – Pennsylvania
*[[Environment America]] – National
*[[Environment Texas]] – Texas
*[[Environmental Defense Center]] – California
*[[Environmental Integrity Project]] – National
*[[Environmental Transformation Movement of Flint]] – Michigan
*[[Environmental Working Group]] – National
*[[Escambia County Democratic Environmental Caucus]] – Florida
*[[Evergreen Action]] – National
*[[Extinction Rebellion New Orleans]] – Louisiana
*[[Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area]] – California
*[[Faithful America]] – National
*[[Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition]] – Alaska
*[[Fayetteville Police Accountability Community]]
*[[Taskforce]] – North Carolina
*[[Florida Student Power Network]] – Florida
*[[Food & Water Watch]] – National
*[[Fossil Free California]] – California
*[[Fossil Free Tompkins]] – New York
*[[Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard]] – Massachusetts
*[[Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice]] – Illinois
*[[FracTracker Alliance]] – National
*[[Franciscan Action Network]] – National
*The [[Freedom BLOC]] – Ohio
*[[FreshWater Accountability Project]] – Ohio
*[[Fresnans Against Fracking]] – California
*[[Fridays For Future USA]] – National
*[[Friends Committee on National Legislation]] – National
*[[Friends of the Earth U.S.]] – National
*[[Friends of Public Banking Santa Rosa]] – California
*[[Frontera Water Protection Alliance]] – Texas
*[[Future Coalition]] – National
*[[The Future Left]] – California
*[[Gas Free Seneca]] – New York
*[[Georgia Conservation Voters]] – Georgia
*[[Georgia Interfaith Power & Light]] – Georgia
*[[Georgia STAND-UP]] – Georgia
*[[Giniw Collective]] – Minnesota
*[[Glades County Democratic Environmental Caucus]] – Florida
*[[Glades County Democratic Executive Committee]] – Florida
*[[Global Climate & Health Alliance]] – National
*[[Global Consortium on Climate & Health]]
*[[Education at Columbia University]] – National
*[[Global Observatory on Pollution & Health at Boston College]] – Massachusetts
*[[Global Witness]] – National
*[[Golden Ponds Farm]] – Wisconsin
*[[Grassroots Central Mass]] – Massachusetts
*[[Grassroots Global Justice Alliance]] – National
*[[Great Old Broads for Wilderness]] – National
*[[Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution]] – Alabama
*[[Greater Highland Area Concerned Citizens]] – Illinois
*The [[Greater Prince William Climate Action Network]] – Virginia
*The [[Green House Connection Center]] – Colorado
*[[Green Neighbor Challenge]] – National
*[[Green New Deal Network]] – National
*[[Green Sanctuary of Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton]] – New York
*[[Green Sanctuary of Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva]] – Illinois
*[[Green Workers Alliance]] – National
*[[Greenbelt Climate Action Network]] / 350
*[[Greenbelt]] – Maryland
*[[GreenFaith]] – National
*[[GreenLatinos]] – National
*[[Greenpeace USA]] – National
*[[Greenvest]] – National
*[[Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart]]
*[[Guernsey County Citizens Support on Drilling Issues]] – Ohio
*[[Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy]] – Gulf Coast
*[[Health Care Without Harm]] – National
*[[Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate]] – Minnesota
*[[HealthLink]] – Massachusetts
*[[Healthy Gulf]] – Gulf of Mexico
*[[Heartwood]] – National
*[[Hendry County Democratic Environmental Caucus]] – Florida
*[[Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters USA Justice, Peace, & Integrity of Creation Committee]] – National
*[[Honeydew Energy Advisors]] – District of Columbia
*[[Hudson River Sloop Clearwater]] – New York
*[[Human Impact Partners]] – National
*[[Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition]] – New York
*[[Idle No More San Francisco Bay]] – California
*[[In the Shadow of the Wolf]] – National
*[[Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition]] – New York
*[[Indigenous Environmental Network]] – National
*[[Indivisible]] – National
*[[Indivisible Nation BK]] – New York
*[[Inland Ocean Coalition]] – Colorado
*[[Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy]] – National
*[[Institute for Policy Studies Inequality Program]] – National
*[[Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy]] – Minnesota
*[[Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center]] – Washington
*[[Interfaith Earthkeepers Eugene & Springfield]] – Oregon
*[[Interfaith Moral Action on Climate]] – National
*[[Interfaith Oceans]] – National
*[[International Indigenous Youth Council Los Angeles]] – California
*[[International Marine Mammal Project]] – National
*[[Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement]] – Iowa
*[[Islamic Circle of North America Council for Social Justice]] – National
*[[Jewish Climate Action Network]] – Massachusetts
*[[Jewish Climate Action Network NYC]] – New York
*[[John Muir Project]] – National
*[[Justice Committee of The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Albany Province]] – New York
*[[Kissimmee Waterkeeper]] – Florida
*[[Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship]] – Washington
*[[Labor Network for Sustainability]] – National
*[[LaPlaca & Associates]] – North Carolina
*[[Leadership Conference of Women Religious]] – National
*[[League of Conservation Voters]] – National
*[[LITE Initiatives]] – California
*[[Little Sprouts Preschool]] – Washington
*[[Local Environmental Action Demanded Agency]] – Oklahoma
*[[Longmeadow Pipeline Awareness Group]] – Massachusetts
*[[Love Wild Horses]] – National
*[[MADRE]] – National
*[[Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns]] – National
*[[Martin County Democratic Environmental Caucus]] – Florida
*[[Massachusetts Jobs with Justice]] – Massachusetts
*[[Maternal & Child Health Access]] – California
*[[Mazaska Talks]] – Washington
*[[Mercury Policy Project]] – National
*[[Metro NY Catholic Climate Movement]] – New York
*[[Michigan Climate Action Network]] – Michigan
*[[Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition]] – Michigan
*[[Mid-Atlantic Invasive Plant Council]] – Maryland
*[[Mid-Missouri Peaceworks]] – Missouri
*[[Milwaukee Riverkeeper]] – Wisconsin
*[[MIT Divest]] – Massachusetts
*[[Mothers & Others for Clean Air]] – Alabama / Arkansas / Florida / Georgia / Louisiana / Mississippi / North Carolina / South Carolina / Virginia / Tennessee
*[[Mothers Out Front]] – National
*[[Mothers Out Front Long Island]] – New York
*[[Mothers Out Front Tompkins]] – New York
*[[Mountain Progressives Frazier Park]] – California
*[[Napa Climate NOW!]] – California
*[[National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd]] – Maryland
*[[National Religious Coalition on Creation Care]] – National
*[[Natural Resources Defense Council]] – National
*[[Nature Coast Conservation]] – Florida
*[[NC WARN]] – North Carolina
*[[NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice]] – National
*[[New Energy Economy]] – New Mexico
*[[New Jersey State Industrial Union Council]] – New Jersey
*[[New Mexico Climate Justice]] – New Mexico
*[[New York Climate Advocates]] – New York
*[[New York Communities for Change]] – New York
*[[New York Lawyers for the Public Interest]] – New York New York / New Jersey 
*[[Environmental Watch]] – New Jersey / New York
*[[New Yorkers for Clean Power]] – New York
*[[Newark Water Coalition]] – New Jersey
*[[NJ-08 for Progress]] – New Jersey
*[[North American Climate, Conservation & Environment]] – New York
*[[North Bronx Racial Justice]] – New York
*[[North Country Earth Action]] – New York
*[[North Georgia Conservation Coalition]] – Georgia
*[[North Range Concerned Citizens]] – Colorado
*[[Northern California Recycling Association]] – California
*[[Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council]] – Michigan
*[[Northwest Detroiters for Social Justice]] – Michigan
*[[Nuclear Energy Information Service]] – Illinois
*[[NYC H2O]] – New York
*[[NYC Safe Energy Campaign]] – New York
*[[Occupy Bergen County]] – New Jersey
*[[Ocean Conservancy]] – National
*[[Ocean Conservation Research]] – National
*[[Oceana]] – National
*[[Oceanic Preservation Society]] – National
*[[Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition]] – West Virginia
*[[Oil & Gas Action Network]] – National
*[[Oil Change International]] – National
*[[Oregon Democratic Party Environmental Caucus]] – Oregon
*[[Our Climate Education Fund]] – National
*[[Our Revolution]] – National
*[[Our Revolution Greenville]] – South Carolina
*[[Our Revolution Hawaii]] – Hawaii
*[[Our Revolution Howard County]] – Maryland
*[[Our Revolution Michigan]] – Michigan
*[[Our Revolution Minnesota]] – Minnesota
*[[Our Revolution Montgomery County]] – Maryland
*[[Our Revolution New Jersey]] – New Jersey
*[[Our Revolution South Carolina]] – South Carolina
*[[Oxfam America]] – National
*[[Pacific Environment]] – National
*[[Los Padres ForestWatch]] – California
*[[Palm Beach County Democratic Environmental Caucus]] – Florida
*[[Pass the Federal Green New Deal Coalition]] – Washington
*[[Peace Action Wisconsin]] – Wisconsin
*[[Pennsylvania Council of Churches]] – Pennsylvania
*[[People of Albany United for Safe Energy]] – New York
*[[People Demanding Action]] – National
*[[The People's Justice Council]] – Alabama
*[[People's Party]] – National
*[[Peoples Climate Movement New York]] – New York
*[[Pesticide Action Network]] – National
*[[Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter Veterans For Peace]] – Maryland
*[[Physicians Against Red Meat]] – California
*[[Physicians for Social Responsibility]] – National
*[[Physicians for Social Responsibility Arizona]] –Arizona
*[[Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania]] – Pennsylvania
*[[Pivot Point]] – Washington
*[[Progressive Democrats of America]] – National
*[[Progressive Democrats of America Central Florida]] – Florida
*[[Progressive Democrats of America Tucson]] – Arizona
*[[Progressive Democrats of Howard County]] – Maryland
*[[Project CoffeeHouse]] – Pennsylvania
*[[Project Eleven Hundred]] – Utah
*[[Property Rights & Pipeline Center]] – National
*[[Public Citizen]] – National
*[[Public Goods Institute]] – National
*[[Public Justice Center]] – Maryland
*[[Publish What You Pay United States]] – National
*[[Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action]] – Washington
*[[Rachel Carson Council]] – National
*[[Rainforest Action Network]] – National
*[[Rapid Shift Network]] – National
*[[RedTailed Hawk Collective]] – North Carolina
*[[Redwood Coast Land Conservancy]] – California
*[[Reedsburg Area Concerned Citizens]] – Wisconsin
*[[Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary Western American Area]] – California
*[[Resource Renewal Institute]] – California
*[[Responsible Drilling Alliance]] – Pennsylvania
*[[Revolution Coalition]] – National
*[[Rio Grande Valley Great Old Broads for Wilderness]] – New Mexico
*[[River Guardian Foundation]] – North Carolina
*[[Rockland Citizens Action Network]] – New York
*[[Rogue Climate]] – Oregon
*[[RootsAction]] – National
*[[Safe Energy Rights Group]] – New York
*[[Safe Skies Maryland]] – Maryland
*[[Safer States]] – National
*[[San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper]] – Texas
*[[San Diego 350]] – California
*[[San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility]] – California
*[[San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace]] – California
*[[Santa Barbara Standing Rock Coalition]] – California
*[[Santa Barbara Urban Creeks Council]] – California
*[[Santa Cruz Climate Action Network]] – Local
*[[Santa Rosa Junior College]] – California
*[[Save the Frogs!]] – California
*[[Save Our Illinois Land]] – Illinois
*[[Save the Pine Bush]] – New York
*[[Save RGV]] – Texas
*[[School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province Shalom Office]] – National
*[[Science & Environmental Health Network]] – National
*[[Seeding Sovereignty]] – National
*[[Seneca Lake Guardian]] – New York
*[[Seven Circles Foundation]] – California
*[[Shenandoah Energy Services]] – Virginia
*[[Sierra Club]] – National
*[[Sister Health & Wellness Collective]] – National
*[[Sisters of Bon Secours USA]] – Maryland
*[[Sisters of Charity Federation]] – National
*[[Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus & Mary]] – National
*[[Sisters of Home Visitors of Mary]] – Michigan
*[[Sisters of the Humility of Mary]] – Pennsylvania
*[[Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Justice Team]] – National
*[[Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt]] – New York
*[[Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia]] – National
*[[Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet]] – National
*[[Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Louisiana]] – Louisiana
*[[Sisters of St. Joseph of Concordia]] – Kansas
*[[Sisters of St. Joseph of Rochester Justice & Care for Creation Committee]] – New York
*[[Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield]] – Massachusetts
*[[SoCal 350 Climate Action]] – California
*[[Social Eco Education Los Angeles]] – California
*[[Social Justice Commission of Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts]] – Massachusetts
*[[Solar United Neighbors Action]] – National
*[[Solarize Albany County]] – New York
*[[Solidarity INFO Service]] – National
*[[Sonoma County Climate Activist Network]] – California
*[[South Shore Audubon Society]] – New York
*[[Southcoast Energy Challenge]] – Massachusetts
*[[Southern Oregon Climate Action Now]] – Oregon
*[[Spirit of the Sun]] – Colorado
*[[Spottswoode Winery]] – California
*[[Spruill Farm Conservation Project]] – North Carolina
*[[St. Francis Xavier Church]] – New York
*[[Stand.earth]] – National
*[[Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion]] – New York
*[[Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline]] – New York
*[[Students for Economic Democracy]] – Florida
*[[Sunflower Alliance]] – California
*[[Sungage Financial]] – National
*[[Sunrise Little Rock]] – Arkansas
*[[Sunrise Movement]] – National
*[[Sunrise Movement Fairview]] – Colorado
*[[Sunrise Movement Los Angeles]] – California
*[[Sunrise Movement Villanova University]] – Pennsylvania
*[[Sunrise STL]] – Missouri
*[[Sunrise Worcester]] – Massachusetts
*[[Susanne Moser Research & Consulting]] – National
*[[Sustainable Marblehead]] – Massachusetts
*[[Sustainne]] – Connecticut
*[[Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light]] – Tennessee
*[[Texas Campaign for the Environment]] – Texas
*[[Think Heavenly]] – California
*[[Thomas Berry Forum]] – New York
*[[Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative]] – New York
*[[Transition Sebastopol]] – California
*[[Tucson Climate Action Network]] – Arizona
*[[Turtle Island Restoration Network]] – Regional
*[[Union of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary]] – National
*[[Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community]] – National
*[[Unite North Metro Denver]] – Colorado
*[[United Church of Christ Ministry of Environmental Justice]] – National
*[[U.S. Public Interest Research Group]] – National
*[[Utah Valley Earth Forum]] – Utah
*[[Vermont Conservation Voters]] – Vermont
*[[Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance]] – Vermont
*[[Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132]] – Oregon
*[[Voices for Progress]] – National
*[[Wall of Women Colorado]] – Colorado
*[[Wasatch Clean Air Coalition]] – Utah
*[[Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility]] – Washington
*[[Water & Air Team Charlevoix]] – Michigan
*[[We Want Green Too!]] – Michigan
*[[The Wei]] – New Jersey
*[[Westchester People's Action Coalition Foundation]] – New York
*[[Western Environmental Law Center]] – Western United States
*[[Western New York Environmental Alliance]] – New York
*[[Wheaton Franciscans Justice, Peace, & Integrity of Creation Office]] – Illinois
*[[Wild Montana]] – Montana
*[[Wild Nature Institute]] – National
*[[The Wilderness Society]] – National
*[[Women's Earth & Climate Action Network]] – National
*[[Women's International League for Peace & Freedom]] – National
*[[Women's March Ann Arbor]] – Michigan
*[[Women's Voices for the Earth]] – National
*[[Youth vs Apocalypse]] – California
*[[Zero Hour]] – National
*[[198 methods]] – National
*[[350 Bay Area Action]] – California
*[[350 Brooklyn]] – New York
*[[350 Butte County]] – California
*[[350 Central Mass]] – Massachusetts
*[[350 Charlotte]] – North Carolina
*[[350 Colorado]] – Colorado
*[[350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley]] – California
*[[350 Corvallis]] – Oregon
*[[350 Eastside]] – Washington
*[[350 Eugene]] – Oregon
*[[350 Everett]] – Washington
*[[350 Fairfax]] – Virginia
*[[350 Hawaii]] – Hawaii
*[[350 Humboldt]] – California
*[[350 Juneau]] – Alaska
*[[350 Kishwaukee]] – Illinois
*[[350 Lake Norman]] – North Carolina
*[[350 Maine]] – Maine
*[[350 Massachusetts]] – Massachusetts
*[[350 Massachusetts Metro North Node]] – Massachusetts
*[[350 Montana]] – Montana
*[[350 New Hampshire]] – New Hampshire
*[[350 New Hampshire Action]] – New Hampshire
*[[350 New Orleans]] – Louisiana
*[[350 NYC]] – New York
*[[350 PDX]] – Oregon
*[[350 Pensacola]] – Florida
*[[350 Petaluma]] – California
*[[350 Seattle]] – Washington
*[[350 Silicon Valley]] – California
*[[350 Sonoma]] – California
*[[350 Spokane]] – Washington
*[[350 Triangle]] – North Carolina
*[[350 Ventura County Climate Hub]] – California
*[[350 West Sound Climate Action]] – Washington
*[[350.org]] – National
*[[1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations]] – California
*[[48217 Southwest Detroit]] – Michigan</div>

==Praising China==
[[Rhea Suh]] visited China in 2016, for the [[Natural Resources Defense Council]].;

:''That’s why I spent much of my recent visit to China learning more about what that country is doing to help fight this global scourge. NRDC has been working with China for 20 years. I wanted to get a firsthand look at the progress we’re making and the challenges ahead.''

:''Rapid industrialization and decades of strong growth in China have come with enormous environmental challenges. Air pollution, for example, is blamed for 1 million premature deaths a year in China and for reducing life expectancy by nearly 25 months. In some of the country’s most heavily populated areas, more than 80 percent of the water from underground wells used in homes and factories and on farms has been polluted. And with its heavy dependence on coal, China alone accounts for 27 percent of the global carbon footprint.''

:''What I saw on my trip, though, was a reminder that China is doing a lot to address its problems at home and to help fight climate change — starting with the wind turbines I saw from my train window as I traveled from Shanghai to Beijing.''

:''China leads the world in clean power development from renewable sources like the wind and sun. Last year alone, China invested $111 billion — one-third of the world total — in wind, solar, and other renewable power sources.''

:''The country’s leaders regard solar and wind power as strategic industries, and it’s easy to see why. That global market is huge. Some 64 percent of all the electricity-generating capacity added worldwide over the next 25 years will be powered by the wind and sun, Bloomberg projects, at an investment of nearly $7 trillion.''

:''China has built the world’s largest high-speed rail system, part of which whisked me from Shanghai to Beijing in five hours on a smooth-as-silk ride at speeds that topped out at 186 miles per hour. Think of boarding a train in Washington, D.C., at breakfast time and arriving in Chicago in time for lunch.''

:''China has invested more than $500 billion to build some 12,000 miles of high-speed railroad connecting nearly every city in the country with a population of half a million or more. The Chinese take four million high-speed rail trips every day, at a small fraction of the carbon footprint of equivalent air travel.''

:''China’s electric utilities are urged by the government to collaborate with their customers to develop innovative ways to slow the growth in electricity demand. Zheng Qingrong, of the Shanghai Electric Corp., hosted me at the company’s gleaming new demand response center to explain a pilot project viewed as an early move in that direction. There, computerized technology is helping customers save money by shaving power consumption during periods when demand for electricity peaks. That means the company can serve more customers without building an excessive number of power plants.''

:''China is also working to launch next year a cap-and-trade system that will create market incentives for Chinese industry to cut its carbon footprint, as the country’s special climate change envoy, [[Xie Zhenhua]], explained to me in ''Beijing''. Xie was a central player in global climate talks last year in Paris, where the United States, China, India, Brazil, and more than 180 other countries agreed to shift away, over time, from the dirty fossil fuels that are driving climate change and move to cleaner, smarter ways to power our future.
''
:''China has pledged to cap its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 (sooner, if possible), and it’s beginning to make progress. For the first time since 1982 — essentially, the first time since China began to build a modern economy fueled by foreign investment — China has had back-to-back annual reductions in coal consumption. Its coal use fell 2.9 percent in 2014 and another 3.7 percent in 2015, even as its economy continued to grow — at a substantial 6.9 percent last year.''

:''Here’s why China’s role is so important: China is doing something no other country in history has done. It is moving hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty and into the global middle class. And it is doing it over the span of a single generation.
''
:''That growth has fueled a seemingly insatiable demand for energy. Most of that demand is met by fossil fuels. China burns as much coal, for example, as the rest of the world combined.''

:''China eclipsed the United States several years ago as the world’s largest emitter of the carbon pollution that’s driving global climate change. The country kicked out about 9.7 billion tons of carbon emissions last year. While that was down about 1.5 percent from the year before, China still accounts for 27 percent of the global carbon footprint. Add to the that U.S. share — another 15.5 percent — and the two countries together produce about 43 percent of all global carbon pollution.
''
:''That’s why fixing this problem starts with our countries, the United States and China. And it’s one more reason I’m so proud of the work NRDC has done in China since first starting our clean energy efforts there 20 years ago.''<ref>[https://www.nrdc.org/experts/rhea-suh/what-i-saw-china-will-help-change-world NRDC, What I Saw in China Will Help Change the World August 03, 2016 Rhea Suh]</ref>

==Trump Watch==
[[File:Trump Watch.JPG|thumb|Trump Watch]]
The [[Natural Resources Defense Council]] has a "Trump Watch" initiative, where they are "Keeping a vigilant eye on the administration’s environmental actions."<ref>[https://www.nrdc.org/trump-watch Trump Watch, accessed April 8 2017]</ref>

==Stop Trump Legal Fund==
[[File:Stop Trump Legal Fund.jpg|thumb|Stop Trump Legal Fund]]
The [[Natural Resources Defense Council]] has a "Stop Trump legal fund" advertised on their website, where they have as an action item to "Contribute to the Stop Trump Legal Fund to help our more than 500 lawyers, scientists, and policy experts fight back in court against the president’s assault on our air, land, and water."<ref>[https://www.nrdc.org/stories/7-things-you-can-do-help-nrdc-fight-trumps-agenda https://www.nrdc.org/stories/7-things-you-can-do-help-nrdc-fight-trumps-agenda, accessed April 8 2017]</ref>

::"President Trump's assault against the environment is so extreme that we're creating our first-ever emergency legal fund to stop him.

::"NRDC has already filed suit against the Trump Administration on dozens of fronts: to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline... to defend our Arctic and Atlantic coastlines from drilling... to save bees, birds and butterflies from a flood of dangerous neonic pesticides approved by the EPA.

::"And this is just the beginning. The barrage grows by the week. And we must respond with maximum legal force. Make your tax-deductible donation to the Stop Trump Legal Fund today!

==Board Members==

Members of the Board:<ref>[https://www.nrdc.org/board-trustees, accessed April 8 2017]</ref>

===Trustees===

*CHAIR, [[Alan Horn]], Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios
*CHAIR EMERITUS, [[Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.]], Chief Counsel, [[Brennan Center for Justice]] at [[NYU Law School]]; Senior Counsel, [[Cravath, Swaine and Moore, LLP]]
*CHAIR EMERITUS, [[Daniel Tishman]], Principal & Vice Chairman, [[Tishman Realty Partners]]; Vice Chairman, [[AECOM]]
*TREASURER, [[Mary P. Moran]], Environmentalist; foundation director
*[[John H. Adams]], Founding Director, [[Natural Resources Defense Council]]; Chair, [[Open Space Institute]]
*Hon. [[Anne Slaughter Andrew]], Advisor, Sustainable Energy Investments
*[[Richard Ayres]], The [[Ayres Law Group]]
*[[Patricia Bauman]], President, [[Bauman Foundation]]; Chair, [[NRDC Action Fund]]; Co-Chair of the [[Brennan Center for Justice]]
*[[Anita Bekenstein]], Environmentalist; foundation director
*[[Claire Bernard]], President, Mariposa Foundation
*[[Anna Scott Carter]], Environmentalist; Co-Founder, 'Clean by Design' initiative
*[[Sarah Cogan]] Partner, [[Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP]], New York Office
*[[Laurie David]], Author, Producer, Advocate; Co-Founder, [[NRDC Los Angeles Leadership Council]]
*[[Leonardo DiCaprio]], Actor; environmentalist; Founder, [[Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation]]
*[[John Echohawk]], Executive Director, [[Native American Rights Fund]]
*[[Nicole Lederer]], Chair and Co-Founder, [[Environmental Entrepreneurs]] (E2)
*[[Shelly Malkin]], Artist; conservationist
*[[Josephine Merck]], Artist; Founder, [[Ocean View Foundation]]
*[[Kelly Chapman Meyer]], Co-Founder, [[American Heart Association Teaching Gardens]]
*[[Peter Morton]], Chairman/Founder, [[510 Development Corporation]]
*[[Wendy Neu]], Chairman and CEO, Hugo Neu Corporation; grassroots community organizer and activist
*[[Frederica Perera]], Dr.P.H., Ph.D., Professor, [[Columbia University]] Mailman School of Public Health; Director, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
*[[Robert Redford]] Actor; director; conservationist
*[[Laurance Rockefeller]], Conservationist
*[[Tom Roush, M.D.]], Private investor; environmental activist
*[[William H. Schlesinger]], President Emeritus, the [[Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies]]
*[[Max Stone]], Managing Director, The D. E. Shaw Group
*[[James Taylor]], Singer/Songwriter
*[[Gerald Torres]], Jane M.G. Foster Professor, Cornell University Law School
*[[David Vladeck]], Professor, Georgetown Law
*[[David F. Welch]], Ph.D., President, Infinera Corporation
*[[Kathleen A. Welch]], Principal, [[Corridor Partners]]
*[[Eric Wepsic]], Managing Director, The [[D. E. Shaw Group]]
*[[George Woodwell]], Ph.D., Founder, Director Emeritus, Woods Hole Research Center
*[[Ali Zaidi]], Senior Advisor, Morrison & Foerster; Precourt Energy Scholar, Stanford University; Non-resident Fellow, Columbia University

===Honorary Trustees===
*[[Dean Abrahamson]], M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
*[[Henry Breck]], Partner, Heronetta Management, L.P.
*[[Joan Davidson]], President, Furthermore Grants in Publishing; Former NY State Parks Commissioner; President Emerita, J.M. Kaplan Fund
*[[Sylvia Earle]], Ph.D., Chair, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, Inc.
*[[Robert J. Fisher]], Director, Gap Inc.
*[[Charles Koob]], Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP
*[[Philip Korsant]], Member, Long Light Capital, LLC
*[[Ruben Kraiem]], Partner, Covington and Burling, LLP
*[[Burks Lapham]], Environmentalist
*[[Maya Lin]], Artist/Designer
*[[Daniel Pauly]], Ph.D., Professor of Fisheries and Zoology
*[[Nathaniel Reed]], Businessman; conservationist
*[[Cruz Reynoso]], Professor of Law, [[UC Davis]]
*[[John R. Robinson]], Attorney
*[[Jonathan F. P. Rose]], President, [[Jonathan Rose Companies LLC]]
*[[Christine H. Russell]], Ph.D., Environmentalist; foundation director
*[[James Gustave Speth]], Professor of Law, [[Vermont Law School]]; Distinguished Senior Fellow, [[Demos]]
*[[Frederick Terry, Jr.]], Senior Counsel, [[Sullivan & Cromwell]]
*[[Thomas Troyer]], Member, [[Caplin & Drysdale]]
*[[Kirby Walker]], Independent film/video producer
*[[Elizabeth Wiatt]], Environmentalist; Co-Founder, [[NRDC Los Angeles Leadership Council]]

==Proteus Fund==

[[Natural Resources Defense Council]] is a grant recipient of the [[Proteus Fund]].<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5265 ''Discover the Networks'', Proteus Fund]</ref>

==External links==

*[http://www.proteusfund.org/ Proteus Fund website]

==References==

[[Category:Proteus Fund]]
[[Category:Radical Environmentalist]]
[[Category:Organizations]]
[[Category:Natural Resources Defense Council]]