Rebecca Curry

Legislative Director for State & Regional Advocacy

Policy and Legislation Team

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Rebecca Curry

Legislative Director for State & Regional Advocacy Policy and Legislation Team

Siham Zniber
Associate Director, Policy & Legislation
szniber@earthjustice.org

Rebecca Curry is the Legislative Director for State & Regional Advocacy at Earthjustice, where she works across the organization’s offices, programs, and teams to coordinate state and regional advocacy strategies. She connects policy efforts and campaigns across states, building collaboration around Earthjustice’s policy priorities. An attorney, she brings experience in climate and clean energy policy, environmental justice, and air and water quality.

Rebecca returned to Earthjustice in 2026 after working at Rewiring America, where she first led legislative and regulatory efforts across the West and later oversaw policy strategies nationwide. Her work focused on electrification, the gas transition, and energy affordability. Previously, as the Colorado Policy Counsel at Earthjustice, she worked with community partners to advance landmark state legislation advancing environmental justice and addressing air and water pollution.

Before focusing on environmental advocacy, Rebecca worked at the ACLU of Colorado and ACLU of Mississippi, where she worked on economic justice and criminal legal system reform, including bail reform and efforts to end debtors’ prisons. She also worked as a legal intern with the Jefferson Parish Public Defender’s Office in Louisiana and with International Bridges to Justice in Cambodia.

Rebecca received her J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and her B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Originally from the South, she now lives in the West.

Expert Posts & Articles

The Suncor refinery in North Denver.
November 7, 2022

Colorado's Suncor Refinery is Fighting a Plan to Monitor its Toxic Pollution

Suncor filed a suit against the state to block fenceline monitoring requirements for its refinery, but community and environmental groups quickly moved to intervene and ensure they remain in place

Siham Zniber
Associate Director, Policy & Legislation
szniber@earthjustice.org

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Quoted in the News

April 18, 2024

Colorado Community Media

Denver and Commerce City officials rally behind bill aiming to combat air pollution

“This bill seeks to hold the state accountable for several protections promised in the Environmental Justice Act.”
November 9, 2021

Colorado Sun

Colorado agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But first they exempted the biggest polluters.

“Suncor is really the biggest emission source within this industrial sector.”
October 26, 2021

Colorado Sun

Colorado tightens air pollution rules after staff shake-up, whistleblower complaint

“It is definitely a positive step to see them moving to address sources that they were ignoring. While minor sources viewed individually may seem small, together they are a really significant contributor to the Front Range’s ozone problem.”
May 17, 2021

CBS

Some Wary About Suncor Community Meetings On Air Monitoring Program: ‘It’s Too Late’

“More monitoring is good monitoring, and I hope that Suncor is proceeding with this community monitoring program in good faith and that this will be a positive step.”
March 25, 2021

Colorado Sun

Colorado’s toxic emitters revise their leakage numbers below tough thresholds in law

“[It’s incredible that the Colorado companies can] just decide, ‘Oh I don’t want to be covered by that legislation.’ The law allows them to go in and change their grade or to grade themselves.”

Latest Press Statements

Smokestack of Valmont Power Station in Boulder, Colo., emits a plume of smoke into a hazy, darkened sky.
February 22, 2024

With Broad Public Support, Legislators to Introduce Package of Bills to Address Colorado’s Ozone Crisis

Legislation will focus on permitting reform, air quality enforcement, additional measures to cut harmful pollution in Colorado
June 7, 2023

As Governor Signs Ozone Bill Into Law, Groups Push For Stronger Action

Community voices must be heard in cumulative impacts rulemaking and interim session
June 2, 2022

Bill to establish health based standards for toxic pollution in CO signed into law

HB22-1244 will require action to reduce emissions of toxic industrial pollutants