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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.
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: Bruce Baizel, 970-259-3353, 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
Groups Move to Intervene in Defense of Denton Fracking Ban
Denton, TX, Dec. 4 -- The Denton Drilling Awareness Group (DAG) and Earthworks today filed intervention papers in two lawsuits seeking to overturn the Denton, Texas ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) that went into effect on Tuesday, December 2. DAG’s Frack Free Denton campaign, with Earthworks’ help, successfully secured passage of a ballot initiative making Denton the first Texas city to ban fracking. The groups are represented by the Texas local government law firm Brown & Hofmeister, and attorneys from national environmental organizations, Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council, are seeking court permission to participate as co-counsel.
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