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Climate & Energy Justice

Friends of the Earth’s Climate & Energy Justice Team is building toward energy systems that center ecological integrity, environmental justice, and human rights.

Our strategies and tactics are rooted in addressing the historic and ongoing systems of capitalist, racial, class, and colonial inequities that harm people and the planet.

We seek to end the extraction, development, and utilization of fossil fuels and other forms of dirty energy driving the climate crisis. We similarly work to stop the proliferating number of false solutions diverting political will and resources away from the urgent need to equitably phase out fossil fuels in line with science, justice, and the United States’ fair share of the global mitigation and financial burden.


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Gulf, Alaska, and Environmental Groups File Motion to Intervene in Oil Industry Lawsuit Against Interior Department’s Five-Year Offshore Leasing Plan

Gulf, Alaska, and environmental groups filed a motion to intervene in an oil industry lawsuit challenging the DOI's Five-Year Program for offshore oil and gas leasing.

Bears Ears National Monument Receives Unprecedented Resource Management Plan

This is an encouraging sign by the federal government on their commitment to protecting public lands and prioritizing Indigenous knowledge in those protections.

Report: Artificial Intelligence A Threat to Climate Change, Energy Usage and Disinformation

AI companies spread hype that they might save the planet, but currently they are doing just the opposite.

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Protecting Communities From Air Pollution
Protecting Communities From Air Pollution

EPA announced its final endangerment finding on leaded aviation gas, a crucial step toward protecting the health of so many who have been unjustly exposed to toxic air pollution.

Tackling the Spread of Disinformation
Tackling the Spread of Disinformation

Every other industry — from food production to car manufacturers to airlines — has to report about the safety of its products. So why should tech companies be any different?

Protecting Endangered Species
Protecting Endangered Species

This win for the lesser-prairie chicken & the northern long-eared bat shows our commitment to protecting species and standing up to Big Oil.

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Artificial Intelligence: The Next Climate Wildfire?
Artificial Intelligence: The Next Climate Wildfire?

New technology like artificial intelligence (AI) is entering increasingly widespread use with essentially no safety checks at all.

Managing to Fight Disinformation
Managing to Fight Disinformation

Disinformation is a threat to the stability of democracy and undermines our ability to tackle nearly every problem we face — from addressing climate change to securing LGBTQ+ rights to ensuring public health.

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.

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  • Artificial Intelligence Threats to Climate Change
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  • Poll results on AI climate implications
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