NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization. We use law, science, and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today, our team of more than 700 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy advocates, communications experts, and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Bozeman, Montana; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington, D.C.  NRDC is seekingthree Fall 2024 Litigation Interns to work with the LitigationTeam associated with our Chicago, San Francisco/Santa Monica, and Washington, D.C. offices.  Position Summary  The Litigation Team is a group of approximately 40 lawyers, litigation assistants and other operations staff who pursue litigation across a broad range of environmental and public health issues, in collaboration with and on behalf of communities most impacted by environmental injustices (including Black, indigenous, and people of color, and low-income and rural communities). Over the past five years, we have litigated cases against the federal government to prevent climate pollution, challenge agency approvals of toxic chemicals and pesticides, resist the suspension of clean water safeguards, oppose offshore drilling and seismic exploration for oil and gas, defend national monuments, and protect energy efficiency standards, among other matters. We also bring enforcement cases against corporate and governmental entities whose violations harm human health and the environment—including to protect the people of Newark, New Jersey and Flint, Michigan, from lead in drinking water; to remediate toxic pollution in the Penobscot River in Maine; to abate mold in New York City public housing for residents with asthma; and to halt air pollution from a coal-fired power plant in Illinois.  Legal interns play an active role on the frontlines to protect our planet and the communities that depend on it. Our interns do concrete work in support of our litigation, including substantive writing and research, and collaborate with NRDC Litigation attorneys.  The internship typically lasts about 10 weeks, beginning at the start of the intern’s fall semester and ending before exams. Start and end dates and other scheduling details are negotiable, but we look for a minimum time commitment of two days (14 hours) a week over the course of an academic term.This posting will be open until April 15, 2024. Interns will have the option to work in person, remotely, or a hybrid of both.  This is a paid position, unless the student is seeking academic credit and their school requires the internship to be unpaid.  You can find more information about our Semester-Based Litigation Internship Program here. 

NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization. We use law, science, and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today, our team of more than 700 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy advocates, communications experts, and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Bozeman, Montana; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington, D.C.   NRDC is seeking three Summer Interns from UC Merced to work remotely or in NRDC's San Francisco office. Support for the internships is provided by the UC Merced Division of Equity, Justice, and Inclusive Excellence. We are currently looking for passionate individuals to bring their unique skills and perspective to help us develop equitable clean transportation, environmental justice, and clean energy policies that cut greenhouse gas emissions and harmful air pollution. As part of this internship, you will: - gain exposure to designing equitable clean transportation, environmental justice, and clean energy policies; - help create memos, reports, graphics, and blogs based on research and data analysis that are used to advance our state and federal advocacy; and - work on projects that advocate for solutions whose benefits are accessible to all.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is the nation's most effective environmental action group, combining the power of more than two million members and online activists with the expertise of nearly 500 scientists, lawyers, policy advocates, and other professionals across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild.  NRDC was founded in 1970 and our staff helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act, and many of the implementing regulations; our water enforcement cases played a major role in shaping current water policy throughout the country. NRDC has offices in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Bozeman, Montana and Beijing.   As a partner of NRDC, E2 is the business voice for the environment. E2 is a national, nonpartisan group of business owners, investors and others who advocate for policies that are good for the environment and good for the economy. E2’s 10,000+ members and supporters, organized in nine chapters stretching from New England to San Diego, have founded or funded more than 2,500 companies; created more than 600,000 jobs and control more than $100B in private equity and venture capital. E2 is a part of NRDC’s Center for Policy Advocacy Program.  Position Summary NRDC is seeking a summer intern (1 position) who is pursuing a career in non-profit communications and is a strong writer to work remotely with the E2 team. Strong preference for candidates who live in or near Chicago and Washington D.C. where NRDC has offices so that they can work in the office 1-2 days/week. The intern will work with E2 staff from across the country to develop, execute and support initiatives to advance current clean economy initiatives and policies. This is a full-time, paid internship that will run for 10 weeks from June through August 2024.   The intern will also receive a one-year membership in E2’s Emerging Leaders program, which comes with the full benefits of E2 membership, including educational programming, networking, advocacy and other opportunities.   As part of E2’s focus on promoting and increasing diversity in the clean energy industry, we encourage all to apply, especially those candidates from diverse backgrounds that are often underrepresented in the clean energy sector.   Candidates must submit a recent writing sample along with your resume and cover letter.