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
A new analysis from Friends of the Earth shows that Big Oil and Big Ag are lobbying to co-opt key provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Plastics and the 16,000 chemicals used to make them contaminate food, water, air, blood, and even breastmilk.
Conservation groups filed a formal legal request to intervene in an industry lawsuit and defend the Biden Administration's oil and gas leasing rule, which contains much-needed reforms regarding bonding and royalty rates for drilling.
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.
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.
Is nuclear power bad for the environment? Is it dangerous, expensive, and a threat to public health? Also yes.
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Learn MoreJoint letter on Google disinformation policy
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Learn MoreExiting Petrochemicals: A Policy Guide for Financial Institutions
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DownloadLetter on the Manchin-Barrasso Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024