Earthworks

Since 1988, Earthworks has been helping communities secure protections for their health, land, water, and air from extractive industries. We are the only national organization in the U.S. to focus exclusively on preventing the destructive impacts of the extraction of oil, gas, and minerals. Our mission is to protect communities and the environment from the adverse impacts of mineral and energy development while promoting sustainable solutions.

We stand for clean air, water, and land, healthy communities, and corporate accountability. Our work is driven by collaboration with frontline communities, using science in innovative ways, and building people power to ensure a more just and livable future. We fight to reduce the immediate harms of oil, gas, and mining upon communities, stop the expansion of oil and gas, reduce methane emissions from fossil fuel operations to slow climate change, hold corporate polluters accountable for cleanup and restoration, and ensure that the renewable energy transition does not shift burdens onto mining-impacted communities.

Earthworks was formed from the merger of the Mineral Policy Center and the Oil & Gas Accountability Project to combine technical knowledge of impacts from the oil, gas, and hardrock mining industries with policy and advocacy skills. We have a long history of bridging grassroots and people's movements with policy campaigns to change the rules by which the oil, gas, and mining industries are allowed to operate.