Friends of the Earth believes our energy use should not make us, or the planet, sick. We promote conservation and the use of clean energy, and we fight to end our unhealthy relationship with harmful energy sources that endanger humans, cause pollution and exacerbate the climate crisis.
Follow the links to learn more about our work to promote clean energy and efficiency as well as our effort to fight harmful energy sources including bad biofuels, big oil, dirty coal and other dirty fuels, and risky nuclear reactors.
Read the latest news and updates from our energy campaigns below:
Friends of the Earth has been working with a small coalition of fellow environmental organizations to change the direction that biofuels policy is going. Our biofuels policy platform provides specific policy recommendations that would incentivise only biofuels that have a proven environmental benefit.
At the end of 2008, a large swath of Tennessee was flooded with toxic coal ash when a containment pond ruptured. The massive spill -- bigger than the oil released from the Exxon Valdez -- covered hundreds of acres of land, knocking homes off of their foundations and flowing into streams and the Clinch and Tennessee rivers. The spill is killing wildlife and poses long-term threats to human health and the environment.
For the first time in decades, the nuclear power industry is considering building new nuclear reactors in the United States. They claim that nuclear power is a solution to global warming, but that’s just not true. Indeed, nuclear power costs too much, takes too long, and is too risky when better alternatives are available.
Congress is failing to serve the public when it comes to our energy crisis and global warming. A compromised energy bill just passed the House and now the Senate is considering similar legislation THIS WEEK.
House Democrats pushed weak legislation days ago that capitulated to Republican demands for more offshore drilling and many Republicans complained about all the good things in the bill that had nothing to do with drilling. Now the Senate is taking up the issue, and they need to hear from you to tell them not to fund more dirty oil and coal.
While President Obama's climate negotiators converge in official talks at the convention, Friends of the Earth staff members Nick Berning, Kate Horner, Karen Orenstein and Elizabeth Bast will be reporting in a variety of ways on what's happening both inside and outside those talks.
Check back here in December for videos, notes and ways you can become involved!
Big Oil benefits from tax loopholes, royalty rollbacks, R&D subsidies and accounting gimmicks
Friends of the Earth’s new analysis shows that even though the oil and gas industry is experiencing record profits, it is set to receive at least $33 billion in handouts from taxpayers over the next five years.
Nuclear Power is a false solution to climate change for many reasons. It takes too long, requires vast industry expansion, and it diverts resources from actual solutions.
