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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Oceans Tell EPA to address the plastic crisis nowTAKE ACTION
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Climate & Energy Justice Save our public lands from oil and gas drilling!TAKE ACTION
While we support BLM’s steps to curb financial giveaways to Big Oil, this rule fails to confront the massive tide of climate emissions stemming from its leasing program.
The Department of Energy should have known better than to shirk environmental review before handing out a billion taxpayer dollars to a dangerously outdated nuclear power plant.
This ruling underscores that federal agencies simply cannot ignore climate, wildlife, and water impacts when analyzing the myriad risks of oil and gas leasing, whether in Wyoming or across the country.
Thanks to our lawsuit, we have set an important precedent for protecting local species and communities from the widespread harms that drilling can bring about.
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.
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?
New technology like artificial intelligence (AI) is entering increasingly widespread use with essentially no safety checks at all.
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 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is many things at once. The good and the bad all need to be considered together.