Fighting Polluting Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuel companies are actively driving our planet to catastrophe. In order to stand a chance of surviving climate change, we need to keep 80 percent of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground. We are fighting in the courts, the legislature, and the executive brand to loosen Big Oil’s grip and phase out fossil fuels. We stand side by side with communities on the front lines of resisting fossil fuel projects — from extraction, to transportation, to combustion. And we continue to push for investments in safe, reliable renewable energy.

Our public lands campaign seeks to halt oil and gas exploitation of our public lands & waters to end our dependence on fossil fuels. The extraction and burning of fossil fuels from public lands & waters accounts for nearly a quarter of U.S. climate emissions — so we are fighting to protect our public lands through the courts. We also push to protect endangered species and our wild spaces from destructive oil and gas drilling.

Our campaign to end fossil fuel subsidies is taking on the endless subsidies and tax breaks that the U.S. government hands over to Big Oil. In a single year, the fossil fuel industry receives $15 billion in federal subsidies. We work to combat tax credits that are propping up this dying industry.


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Court orders government to protect rare Gulf whales, sea turtles, and imperiled marine species from damaging effects of offshore drilling

The court’s ruling affirms that the government cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the widespread, persistent harms that offshore oil and gas development inflicts on wildlife.

Environmental and Gulf Groups Challenge Interior Department’s Outdated Air Quality Regulations for Offshore Drilling

The industry’s harms are extensive, from killing endangered species like the Rice’s whale to degrading the air and water quality of Gulf communities. We hope today’s lawsuit can push federal regulators to finally fix these ineffective air pollution rules and help stop this industry’s destruction for good.

Indigenous Leaders, Environmental Organizations Support Biden Administration Announcement Soliciting Feedback on Expanding and Strengthening Protections for Special Areas in the Western Arctic

DOI's announcement is an important step, but the agency must establish additional safeguards to prevent the irreversible environmental harm that oil and gas projects like Willow pose to our climate and communities.

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Fighting for Gulf Species
Fighting for Gulf 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.

Pausing LNG Exports
Pausing LNG Exports

We joined over 300 organizations from over 40 countries across the globe in a letter calling on the Biden administration to abandon its support for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) at COP28.

Standing Up for Polar Bears
Standing Up for Polar Bears

The agency’s regulation gave oil and gas companies in Alaska a pass to harass polar bears along the Beaufort Sea coast and on the North Slope.

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The Climate & Agriculture provisions of the IRA
The Climate & Agriculture provisions of the IRA

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is many things at once. The good and the bad all need to be considered together.

Big Oil’s Public Lands and Water Leases Shell Game
Big Oil’s Public Lands and Water Leases Shell Game

President Biden is about to break his promise to end new lease sales in a big way, opening 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to drilling

A climate justice user’s guide to the Manchin energy infrastructure bill
A climate justice user’s guide to the Manchin energy infrastructure bill

Look no further than Senator Joe Manchin’s Energy Infrastructure Act of 2021. This bill has Exxon’s fingerprints all over it.

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  • Letter on the Manchin-Barrasso Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024
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  • Methane Madness
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  • Liquefied Natural Cash
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