Summer Industrial Pollution Solutions Intern

NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. NRDC combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts to confront the climate crisis, protect nature, ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.

As an international nonprofit environmental organization, NRDC is working to address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges, and advance innovative, science-based, and enforceable solutions.

Since our founding in 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver many of America’s foundational environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. Today, we continue to lead in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at the local, state, federal and international levels, as well as through the marketplace. Our team works across the United States and around the world, from offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Beijing, and New Delhi (a subsidiary of NRDC India Pvt.

Ltd.).

Supported by our members and online activists, NRDC is driving impactful solutions that confront the climate crisis, defend nature and safeguard public health across

Asia, Africa, and the Americas. At NRDC, we believe lasting change happens when people bring their talent, passion, and expertise together for a common purpose: to build a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient world. Learn more .

Our interns play an active role on the front lines of the environmental movement. Over the course of an internship, NRDC interns work with lawyers, scientists, or policy analysts in different program areas and amass experience that they could not have obtained anywhere else. Interns also have access to various events to enhance their NRDC experience.

NRDC interns may support or work on:

• Research, data collection, and analysis
• Writing and developing materials for state and federal campaigns
• Supporting with designing equitable policy solutions
• Copywriting and editing social media posts and supporting on marketing campaigns
• Brainstorming opportunities for process improvements, new vendors, partnerships, and engagement
• Project management of department and team-wide initiatives

You can find examples of work by our interns on our Careers Page.

POSITION SUMMARY

NRDC's Environmental Health Department is seeking an undergraduate intern to support ongoing projects and priorities for our Place-Based Division. This intern will report into the Midwest Environmental Heath Director. This opportunity is based out of our Chicago office and interns are expected to be onsite 3 days per week.

The Industrial Pollution Solutions Intern will have the opportunity to support campaigns focused on environmental health, cumulative impacts, and corporate accountability, with a particular emphasis on communities in Illinois that face disproportionate pollution burdens. The intern will contribute to research and advocacy efforts related to oil and gas accountability, industrial pollution, climate and public health protections, and emerging environmental justice policies.

Working in partnership with community organizations, the intern will help develop community health assessments, policy briefs, reports, and educational materials that strengthen advocacy campaigns and support community-led solutions. Key deliverables may include cumulative burden analyses, regulatory and policy research, environmental health assessments, community benefits research and recommendations for…