Climate & Energy Justice
Friends of the Earth’s Climate & Energy Justice Team is building toward energy systems that center ecological integrity, environmental justice, and human rights.Our strategies and tactics are rooted in addressing the historic and ongoing systems of capitalist, racial, class, and colonial inequities that harm people and the planet.
We seek to end the extraction, development, and utilization of fossil fuels and other forms of dirty energy driving the climate crisis. We similarly work to stop the proliferating number of false solutions diverting political will and resources away from the urgent need to equitably phase out fossil fuels in line with science, justice, and the United States’ fair share of the global mitigation and financial burden.
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Oceans Tell EPA to address the plastic crisis nowTAKE ACTION
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Climate & Energy Justice Save our public lands from oil and gas drilling!TAKE ACTION
President-elect Donald Trump may be on the verge of approving exports of liquified methane from 14 planned export facilities, which have been striking deals to sell their output to gas buyers worldwide.
Friends of the Earth maintains that DOE has violated federal law, including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), through its $1.1 billion award to Diablo Canyon as part of the agency’s U.S. Civil Nuclear Credit (CNC) Program.
This rule is an important step towards the Biden Administration’s commitments to address power sector emissions.
These three bills will better protect communities facing the hazards of fossil fuel extraction and ramp up the pressure for oil companies.
Sodium hydroxide is a dangerous, caustic chemical that causes chemical burns on contact with skin, and would be dumped into waters frequented by at least eight endangered species.
The court’s decision is a huge victory for groups’ ongoing efforts to protect the Gulf’s vulnerable species, especially the Rice’s whale.
The Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972 requires that all activities that attempt to produce “artificial changes in the composition, behavior, or dynamics of the atmosphere” must file public transparency reports.
What is marine geoengineering? Attempts to manipulate the Earth’s oceans to counteract the effects of climate change.
What is solar geoengineering? Technologies that would reflect a portion of the sun’s rays back into space.
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DownloadLetter to NOAA on Weather Modification Reporting Act of 1972
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Learn MoreJoint letter on Google disinformation policy
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Learn MoreExiting Petrochemicals: A Policy Guide for Financial Institutions