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.
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.
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.
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.
These three bills will better protect communities facing the hazards of fossil fuel extraction and ramp up the pressure for oil companies.
The court’s decision is a huge victory for groups’ ongoing efforts to protect the Gulf’s vulnerable species, especially the Rice’s whale.
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.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is many things at once. The good and the bad all need to be considered together.
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
Look no further than Senator Joe Manchin’s Energy Infrastructure Act of 2021. This bill has Exxon’s fingerprints all over it.