ClientEarth USA

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We hold corporations accountable for a livable planet by taking them to court and ratcheting up the pressure of public opinion. Join us. 🌍 www.clientearth.us

We’re taking Thermo Fisher to court. 🧵 The multinational corporation failed to provide an employee with a retirement fund option aligned with his religious beliefs. So we’re suing to protect the rights of American workers and open a new front in the fight against climate change.

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Climate change is forcing #WorldCup2026 games to hit pause... and for fans to see more ads. Multiple World Cup venues across North America are expected to regularly exceed safe temperature limits during the tournament, with experts predicting a quarter of all games being impacted. 🧵

While communities face deadly heat, smoke-filled skies, and worsening extreme weather linked to fossil fuel pollution, FIFA is allowing Saudi Aramco, the largest fossil fuel polluter in the world, to use the World Cup to polish its image on the global stage. Demand accountability: brnw.ch/21x3mLY

Tell FIFA: Stop helping fossil fuel polluters clean up their name through sponsorships.

Demand FIFA stop accepting sponsorship money from reckless polluters.

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Ways to our hearts: 💚 “Recycling is not a solution to the plastics crisis.” 💚 “Individual actions can’t solve climate change when 80% of CO2 emissions have come from only 57 companies.” 💚 “Extreme weather isn’t random. It’s fueled by corporate pollution.”

Is your retirement fund managing the biggest financial risk of our era? If you have any retirement savings, you may be exposed to climate risk, or the adverse financial impacts stemming from a changing climate. Learn more about how climate risks can ripple through your 401(k): brnw.ch/21x2BtX

Are you willing to sacrifice blue whale calves or the critically endangered vaquita porpoise for more fossil fuels? Santander Bank is backing a destructive fossil fuel project in the Gulf of California. It would turn this biodiversity hotspot into a shipping corridor for LNG tankers.

Santander Bank is backing a fossil fuel project that would turn the Gulf of California, a calving ground for blue whales, into a shipping corridor for liquefied natural gas tankers. We cannot sacrifice these whales for the sake of more climate-harming gas. Take action today! brnw.ch/21x1hzm

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For the first time, a lawsuit directly challenges whether Cushman & Wakefield fulfilled its fiduciary duty when managing climate-related financial risk in a retirement plan. The outcome could have significant implications for the $12 trillion retirement fund sector. Learn more here:

Real estate group Cushman & Wakefield sued over climate risk to worker retirement savings

Case could influence wider legal questions about how long-term risks apply to fiduciary duties

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BREAKING: One of the world’s largest real estate corporations, Cushman & Wakefield, is risking its workers’ retirement funds by investing in climate-risky funds. We’re highlighting a groundbreaking lawsuit to hold the company accountable in court. #GreenSky

Background photo of a gavel, with dramatic lighting. Red text box with “BREAKING: Real estate corporation Cushman & Wakefield is risking its workers' retirement funds by investing in climate-risky funds. We're highlighting a groundbreaking class action lawsuit to hold the company accountable in court.” “A worker filed a precedent-setting lawsuit against one of the world's largest real estate corporations, alleging Cushman & Wakefield's retirement plan managers breached their duties by failing to protect workers' savings from climate-related financial risks.” Arrow icon pointing right in top right corner. Stand.earth logo in bottom right corner.Background photo of an investment graph. Red text box with “Retirement funds are deferred wages & long-term security that workers rely on. Retirement plans aren't abstract financial products; they're deferred wages, long-term security, and a reflection of how employers care for their people in uncertain times. When these critical savings are invested in underperforming fossil fuel companies and climate exposed real estate, employees shoulder risks they never knowingly agreed to.” Arrow icon pointing right in top right corner.Background photo of stock investment graph. Gray text box with “The Kvek vs. Cushman & Wakefield class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court Western District of Washington, is the first-ever legal challenge on 401(k) managers for ignoring climate financial risk, alleging that such oversight violates their fiduciary duties. We are supportive of this lawsuit and have been working for several decades to educate and activate both public and private sector workers about risks to their pensions and retirement funds.” Arrow icon pointing right in top right corner.Background photo of a flaring oil refinery. Red text box with “It's not just Cushman & Wakefield. Instead of safeguarding its workers' futures, companies across the United States are funneling retirement savings into risky funds packed with underperforming fossil fuel companies or high-risk businesses like real estate, that can be severely damaged by the impacts of climate change-fueled extreme weather. No matter who you are or how you vote, your retirement should be secure, and this new landmark lawsuit is arguing just that. Retirement savings should be managed to protect working people, not to bankroll polluters or enrich billionaires.” Arrow icon pointing right in top right corner.

A climate time bomb is ticking in America’s retirement accounts. We’re going to court to stop it. Most of us work hard, put money aside with each paycheck, and trust it will be there when we retire. But that trust is being betrayed.

Environmental and health groups filed a lawsuit on Wednesday morning, arguing that the EPA’s move to eliminate limits on greenhouse gases from vehicles, and potentially other sources, was illegal. The matter is likely to end up before the Supreme Court.

E.P.A. Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule

Environmental and health groups sued the E.P.A. over its elimination of the endangerment finding. The matter is likely to end up before the Supreme Court.

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BREAKING: Trump’s EPA repeals the 2009 endangerment finding. The endangerment finding wasn’t politics — it was science translated into law. Repealing it doesn’t change the facts. It weakens the federal government’s ability to curb climate pollution and protect communities.

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