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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.

Climate & Energy Justice

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.

Resources

Coalition Letter on AI Regulation Preemption

We respectfully urge you to oppose any policy that would erode or preempt federal or state regulation of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, including data centers.

Clean Fuels Production Tax Credit Explainer

The 45Z Clean Fuels Production Credit was created by the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 to incentivize the production of biofuels in the transportation sector.

A Gathering Storm: How Marine Geoengineering Threatens All Ocean Basins

These extreme technologies risk undermining the vital role the ocean plays in regulating the climate system. International law is clear: precaution is not optional.

Exxon’s New Potential Disaster: Coastal Plains

Overall, the Coastal Plains facility would be a site of distress and destruction: it burdens taxpayers with excessive subsidies.

Public Comment Letter on Carboniferous Geoengineering Firm

If conducted at climate-relevant scales1] biomass sinking would require dumping more than 1.1 gigatons of biomass onto ocean floors.

Unchecked and Unaccountable: The Sustainability Crisis at Formosa Plastics Group

This report examines how Formosa Plastics Group performs in relation to environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards.

For 40 years, Friends of the Earth has been a leading voice in the U.S. opposing nuclear reactors. We must move beyond this dangerous and dirty technology to the clean renewable energy and efficiency technologies of the 21st century. 

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