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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:

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.

Media Resources

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.

Earthworks press release archive

Earthworks press mention archive


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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May 16 | 12:01 pm
When it comes to #natgas industry, making haste = making waste. Polluting flaring after #fracking on the rise: http://t.co/WFEchlGC
May 16 | 11:14 am
Oxfam America files lawsuit against Securities and Exchange Commission http://t.co/fmdOLSSr #SEC #conflictminerals

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