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.
Four conservation groups filed suit today in U.S. District Court to challenge a government plan that fails to properly protect rare species, including Rice’s whales and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, from being harmed or killed by fossil fuel drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.
Interior violated NEPA and failed to adequately consider the harms that drilling would have on climate change and on the critically endangered Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whale.
It is simply outrageous that the Republican party is using its trifecta to create yet another fossil fuel subsidy.
After years of organizing, advocacy, and legal action, the D.C District Court handed down another huge win for frontline Gulf communities, our climate, and endangered species like the Rice’s whales
Nearly every Governor, regardless of party affiliation, along the East and West Coast is concerned about expanded offshore oil and gas drilling.
These three bills will better protect communities facing the hazards of fossil fuel extraction and ramp up the pressure for oil companies.
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.