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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.

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

Huge corporations may be able to absorb some of these losses, but the fallout could be catastrophic for everyday people.

That’s why we’re suing real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield for funneling workers’ retirement savings into a misleading fund packed with climate-related risks. brnw.ch/21x0wwp

New Ceres’ report shows the staggering financial repercussions of nature loss

💵 $430 billion: What biodiversity loss will cost eight economic sectors if current trends continue. www.ceres.org/resources/ne...

Asset-level assessment of climate physical risk matters for adaptation finance - Nature Communications The authors develop a methodology to quantify climate physical risks, both chronic and acute, on productive assets. Investor losses are underestimated up to 70% when neglecting asset level information...

💵 70%: The degree to which investor losses could be underestimated when models ignore key climate risks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💵 $1.12 trillion: The projected annual cost of climate-driven physical risks by 2050, most of it coming from heat and water stress. www.spglobal.com/sustainable1...

A climate timebomb could decimate retirement portfolios. Here are some numbers about climate risk >> 🧵

This lawsuit is the first of its kind and could have an impact that goes far beyond one bad actor. If successful, it could set a nationwide precedent, requiring employers to live up to their legal duty to take account of climate risk in retirement portfolios. brnw.ch/21x0sKr

We filed a landmark lawsuit against real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield. Instead of fulfilling its duties to safeguard the future of its workers, the company is offering a high-risk retirement fund full of businesses that are vulnerable to climate disruption.

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.

Dozens of cities across the country have already sued the oil and gas industry for hiding from the public what they've long known: burning their products would drive catastrophic climate change. Now, the industry is trying to stop these lawsuits altogether by bringing one to the Supreme Court.

What's going on with big oil and #SCOTUS? This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that's essentially about whether cities and states can sue oil companies for climate change or not.

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.

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.

The fight for climate protection now shifts even more urgently to the courts, states, and civil society. The science hasn’t changed — now our legal defenses for people and planet must be stronger than ever.

ClientEarth will never stop fighting to hold polluters accountable in the court of law.

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.

Taxpayers Could Be on the Hook for Millions in Cleanup Costs From Old Oil and Gas Wells Oil production was once a major industry in Illinois, but it has steadily declined since the 1950s. Most active wells in Illinois are “stripper” wells that produce less than 1.5 barrels per day.

"The majority of Illinois’s 30,000+ wells are likely producing little to no oil, yet are still not properly plugged, emitting toxic and climate pollutants and threatening air and drinking water relied on by nearby communities,” Read full article here: news.wttw.com/2026/02/10/t...

As the founder and executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Dr. Beverly Wright has led efforts to study and address issues including “Cancer Alley,” an area along the Mississippi River plagued by toxic pollution, particularly from plastics plants.

Charles Young was the first Black colonel in the US Army and the first Black national park superintendent. Young and his troops built the first roads to open up Sequoia groves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks to visitors.

Savonala “Savi” Horne is the executive director of the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers’ Land Loss Prevention Project which provides legal expertise, community education, and advocacy support to rural farmers and promotes sustainable agriculture.

The "father of environmental justice,” Dr. Robert Bullard’s research found that Houston's landfills were disproportionately located in and causing environmental harms to communities of color. This was foundational to the nation’s first lawsuit to challenge environmental racism with civil rights law.

Black leaders in America have always been part of environmental movements, protecting nature, fighting for underserved communities harmed by big polluters, and seeking justice for people and planet.

In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, here are just a few trailblazing Black environmental leaders. ➡️

Our report lays out the problem with Illinois' weak, easily exploited rules and provides recommendations for Illinois and other states facing similar situations to close these loopholes and ensure oil companies shoulder the costs instead of taxpayers. brnw.ch/21wZfcA

At one time, Illinois was a top oil producer. Today, that legacy is a $160M problem. Abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks. For three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for minimizing the threat.

IL doesn’t track individual well production. So, functionally dead wells that produce little or no oil may be labeled “active,” allowing oil companies to shirk cleanup obligations. Eventually, the state will be stuck with the bill and taxpayers could cover $1 bn in closure costs. brnw.ch/21wZfdw

Oil companies are taking advantage of glaring loopholes in Illinois. A new report from ClientEarth and the Environmental Advocacy Center of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at @northwesternlaw.bsky.social has exposed a massive data gap in the state’s orphan well records.

At one time, Illinois was a top oil producer. Today, that legacy is a $160M problem. Abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks. For three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for minimizing the threat.

Illinois' abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks, but for three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for plugging efforts, leaving wells that kill crops, contaminate groundwater and spew methane gas.

Damage to the ocean nearly doubles economic cost of climate change, new study finds Scientists have factored damage to the ocean to the social cost of carbon for the first time -- finding it nearly doubles the economic impact from climate change.

For the first time, researchers have put ocean damage into the price tag used to measure carbon’s harm, and it almost doubles the estimated cost of emissions. That suggests we've been missing a big piece of the picture and can now strengthen the case for tougher rules for polluters. brnw.ch/21wZ7VW

The EPA is changing how it considers the costs and benefits of air pollution rules The EPA won't consider the economic costs of harms to human health, at least for now. Legal and health experts are concerned that the change could make it easier for the agency to roll back rules.

When it comes to regulating air pollution, the Trump administration’s EPA will now consider the financial costs to industry, but not the benefits to your health. A rule change is ending the longstanding practice of calculating health impacts in cost-benefit analysis of regulations. brnw.ch/21wZ63E

One year ago, the Palisades and Eaton fires were raging across LA. Climate change, driven by corporate greenhouse gas emissions, is behind the longer fire season and unusually dry, windy conditions that allowed these fires to grow so rapidly.

Read more about extreme weather > brnw.ch/21wYUbI

ClientEarth USA’s executive director Danielle Lackey was one of the thousands of people who lost their home to a wildfire in 2025. Together, we can hold the companies fueling and profiting off the climate crisis accountable for the damage they have caused. Watch Danielle's story > brnw.ch/21wYrYx

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