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One Bountiful Billionaire Bonanza

The fossil fuel industry is in line for massive giveaways as Congress and the Trump administration put together a budget and tax deal packed with giveaways for giant corporations and the wealthy. Read More

Letter on the Manchin-Barrasso Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024

The Energy and Permitting Reform Act is a climate nightmare more akin to Project 2025 than a supposedly bipartisan compromise. Read More

Biden Climate Ambition letter

We call on Biden to take meaningful action ahead of the UnitedNations Secretary General’s September Climate Ambition Summit. Read More

Transition Minerals and Indigenous Impacts in the US

More than 600,000 Native Americans (about 15% of the Indigenous people in the West) live within approximately 6 miles of an abandoned mine. Read More

Interior Letter on Post-IRA Leasing

President Biden cannot be a climate leader until we begin managing our public lands and waters in a manner consistent with climate science. Read More

Social Cost of Carbon From Federal Oil and Gas Development

Fossil fuel development costs society trillions of dollars in air and water pollution, climate change, public health, and environmental degradation. Read More

Big Oil’s Shell Game: A Highly Subsidized House of Cards

While the Biden administration’s current failure to meaningfully act on leasing could have devastating climate impacts, it is not too late to change course. Interior still can conduct a full analysis of the leasing program. Read More

Letter to EXIM on Malaysia petrochemical project

Friends of the Earth United States (FOE) writes to express deep concern for EXIM’s consideration of Pengerang Energy Complex (PEC) Petrochemical Project in Penerang, Johor, Malaysia. Read More

Closing the Dirty Energy Gap

The amount fossil fuel-reliant communities require to decouple from the federal leasing program pales in comparison to the bailouts the failing fossil fuel industry receives. As we build back better, we should build back with new protections for communities tied to fossil fuel extraction that foster a safer, healthier, and more economically secure future. Read More

Department of Interior FOIA (August 16, 2018)

This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, to compel the United States Department of Interior (“DOI”) to release non-exempt records concerning DOI’s ethics standards and contracts with public relations or communications firms, as well as the activities of highly placed officials within DOI. Read More