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Earthworks is the only U.S. environmental nonprofit that focuses exclusively on the destructive impacts of resource extraction on communities and the environment, in the United States and around the world.
We work to achieve that goal in different ways, including:
- Our Oil & Gas Accountability Project serves drilling impacted communities around the country.
- Our No Dirty Gold campaign which pressures jewelry retailers (whose demand represents 80% of annual gold mine production) to responsibly source their gold
- Our Bristol Bay campaign to protect the world's largest remaining wild salmon fishery.
One of most valuable assets is our staff -- many of whom have worked with Earthworks on mining and drilling issues for more than a decade -- who provide the kind of expertise available nowhere else.
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Contacts:
Executive Director: Jennifer Krill, 202-887-1872 x103, blog
No Dirty Gold campaign director: Payal Sampat, 202-887-1872 x110, blog
Oil & Gas Accountability Project director: Gwen Lachelt, 970-259-3353 x1, blog
Our Bristol Bay campaign director: Bonnie Gestring, 406-549-7361, blog
Policy Director: Lauren Pagel, 202-887-1872 x107, blog
Photos:
Our photo library contains a geographically arranged collection of images of drilling and mining impacts on communities and the environment.
Videos:
Our growing library of videos includes campaign shorts, interviews with affected communities, and pollution exposes.
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Latest Release
Standing up against intimidation: Oil and gas company targets prominent activist
Statement by Gwen Lachelt, Director, Earthworks’ Oil and Gas Accountability Project
After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stepped in when the state of Texas failed to address a water well contamination incident involving Range Resources, the company responded by suing the very landowner whose water was polluted. And Range didn’t stop there. It cast a wide net in a twisted attempt to show that the landowner was defaming Range’s reputation. They even forced our employee, the popular blogger and well-known oil and gas activist, Sharon Wilson (aka “TX Sharon”), to appear in court last week.
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