Kimberly Ong

Senior Attorney, NY Regional, Healthy People & Thriving Communities Program

Kimberly Ong co-leads the Northeast Fossil Free Team and advocates for safe drinking water in New York State. Prior to joining NRDC, she worked as an assistant attorney general at the New York State Office of the Attorney General and as an assistant corporation counsel in the Environmental Law Division of the New York City Law Department. Ong also worked as a research fellow at New York University School of Law’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and served as a law clerk for the Honorable John T. Nixon of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a law degree from New York University School of Law, where she was an executive editor for the Review of Law and Social Change. She is based in NRDC’s New York office.

NRDC in Action

This Lawyer Is Leading the Fight for New York’s Clean Energy Future

Senior attorney Kimberly Ong is taking on the dirty fossil fuel industry in a state that has the eyes of the nation: “Where New York goes, other states have the chutzpah to follow.”


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