our work:

powerful actions. Bold impact.

our partners make us stronger

  • 350.org is an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-centered renewable energy for all.

  • ACCE Action is a multi-racial, democratic, non-profit community organization that builds power to fight and stand for economic, racial, and social justice. We take seriously our commitment to ground-up organizing to build a strong people’s movement that can create transformative community change.

  • The largest multi-racial organizing network in the country, CPD/A includes many of the nation’s strongest local and state-based community organizing groups, many of which are already leading powerful climate campaigning. CPD/A has a deep history of powerful base-building and campaigning at all levels — local, state, federal, and corporate. 

  • The Green Workers Alliance is organizing renewable energy workers to fight for better wages and working conditions while simultaneously being a worker voice for a just transition off of fossil fuels.

  • NYCC is one of the largest state-based organizing groups in the country, NYCC has been organizing in climate spaces for over a decade. NYCC also founded the #FightFor15 to raise wages to $15/hour. 

  • The Action Center on Race & the Economy seeks to create a more racially and economically just society that values people over profits, and supports the full inclusion and leadership of Black, brown, and poor people in our democracy and economy.

  • For over three decades, Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE) has been focused on fighting alongside frontline communities to restore environmental justice and push back on big polluters.

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Movement wins

These wins are all the result of collaborative efforts with our partners!

  • At the beginning of 2024 the Biden Administration paused approvals for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Export Terminals. This was a huge victory for frontline leaders in the Gulf of Mexico who have been fighting the development of LNG infrastructure for years. This infrastructure has serious health impacts on low income black and brown communities across the gulf and the continued development of fossil fuel infrastructure only worsens the climate crisis.

  • After an intensive campaign led by native organizers, Chub has refused to provide insurance for the Rio Grande Pipeline. This is a huge blow to Enbridge’s plans for massive fracked gas expansion. When we talk about taking down the pillars that support the fossil fuel industry this is exactly what we are talking about. Big Oil can’t build new pipelines without insurance.

  • In 2024 New York became the second state in the country to pass a groundbreaking piece of legislation that makes big oil pay to protect communities from the climate crisis. It’s called the Climate Superfund Act. In New York it will fine polluters like Exxon and Shell tens of billions of dollars and use the money to fund projects that protect our communities from storms, floods, and rising sea levels. We supported New York based organizations to flood Gov. Hochul's email and phone lines with messages urging her to sign off on the climate superfund legislation. When that didn’t work we helped bring dozens of people to her office and staged a sit-in that ultimately pushed her to sign off on the bill.

current campaigns

  • ME, MA, NJ, CA

    Across the country people are fighting to make polluters pay for the damage they’re causing to our climate and our communities with Climate Superfund laws. These laws have already been passed in NY and VT and are slated to move billions of dollars from massive polluters like Exxon, Shell, and Chevron into community funds. These funds can be invested in climate adaptation projects that protect us from the next climate disaster, energy efficiency programs that lower our electric bills, and green jobs that help revitalize our communities. We’re working with local organizations to build support for Make Polluters Pay / Climate Superfund laws.

  • MD, CA, WA, MN, NY, IL

    Trillions in workers’ money is funding the systemic takeover of our economy and government and destruction of basic services. We need to end workers’ money (pension funds, 401(K)s) investments in these billionaires and fascists. The Stop the Flow Campaign is pushing cities and states to divest their endowments from corporations supporting the rise of fascism in the US.

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past projects

  • In advance of the UN General Assembly we mobilized tens of thousands in the streets of New Youth City and thousands more across the US. This was a display of full resistance as the world's eyes glared at ICE Agents kidnapping people off the street, the national guard scuffling with peaceful protesters, and the onslaught of authoritarian policies enacted by President Trump. The Make Billionaires Pay mobilizations were an inflection point in an ever growing rebellion against fascist billionaires trying to take control of our government and extract as much profit from our communities as possible.

  • In the summer of 2024 we worked in coalition to launch the Summer of Heat: a sustained campaign of civil disobedience on Wall Street. We shut down the headquarters of financial institutions and rallied at the homes of corporate leaders to demand big banks stop financing new pipelines, refineries, and export facilities that harm our communities and put more money in the pockets of big oil billionaires. Over 700 people were arrested over the course of the summer. On several occasions Citi (one of the largest funders of Big Oil) employees had violent outbursts, attacking and threatening peaceful protesters. Citi was tarnished in the press for failing to keep their staff in line and for their continued investments in fossil fuels. 

  • During the UN Climate Ambition Summit we helped to organize a march with 75,000 people. This was the largest mobilization for the Climate Movement since COVID 19. This mobilization showed mass support for the Biden Administration to end fossil fuels and just a few months later Biden’s paused the approval of Liquified Natural Gas Export terminals. This march helped birth and reignite climate organizing groups across the northeast that are still active today.

  • In the fall of 2023 Climate Defenders and our partners organized a week of direct actions that targeted institutions propping up the fossil fuel industry. Some of the largest financiers of Big Oil, including Citi, Bank of America, KKR, and Blackrock were key targets. The week culminated in several hundred people being arrested outside the Federal Reserve Building of New York demanding the FED implement regulations that would stop Wall Street and Big Banks from investing in Big Oil.

  • For the “Protect Migrants, Protect the Planet” Earth Day Climate Migrant March in New York City in 2025. We mobilized more than 100,000 people into action!!!