News & Updates

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

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...

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

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

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 Grantee, The Century Foundation, Releases Follow-up Report on the Child Care Cliff

Last year, The Century Foundation published a report on the child care cliff as a result of the expiration of ARPA child care stabilization funds. Last week, Julie Kashen and Laura Valle-Gutierrez released a new follow-up report that looks at how families, early childhood educators, and policymakers are grappling with the fallout from the child care cliff. In this report, TCF dives deep at the...

Bakeyah Nelson Pens Opinion Piece in Response to Houston Chronicle

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 Director Lee Wasserman Authors Guest Essay in The New York Times

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...

RFF Joins Investing in America Child Care Partnership

A new coordinated funder collaborative aims to strengthen local child care systems and increase access to high-quality, affordable child care. 

The Rockefeller Family Fund, through the Economic Justice for Women (EJW) program, has signed on to a new philanthropic partnership that aims to leverage federal infrastructure funding to strengthen local child care ecosystems in...

RFF President and Director featured in The Wall Street Journal

RFF’s work to hold ExxonMobil accountable in court and state legislatures for decades of climate deception was recently featured in The Wall Street Journal. As reported, Exxon saw RFF’s and other advocates’ work as a major threat to its business and responded aggressively, including the use of materials hacked from climate advocates....

A Courageous Victory: Vermont Climate Superfund Bill Passes the House and Senate

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...