# Earthworks

> We stand with frontline communities opposing fossil fuels and dirty mining while advocating for a clean energy transition\.

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## Pages
- [Homepage](https://earthworks.org/): Earthworks stands with frontline communities opposing fossil fuels and dirty mining while advocating for a clean energy transition\.
- [Annual Report and Financials](https://earthworks.org/about/annual-report-and-financials/): Learn more about the impact of Earthworks’ campaigns and how we carefully steward our financial resources\.
- [Why Give to Earthworks?](https://earthworks.org/about/why-give-to-earthworks/): Your dollars support our expert team helping people on the frontlines fight back—and win\.
- [How We Work](https://earthworks.org/about/how-we-work/): We support frontline communities, reform policies, and hold fossil fuel and mining companies accountable while changing the way they operate\. 
- [Get Involved](https://earthworks.org/get-involved/): Find out how you can support communities and protect the environment from harmful oil, gas, and mining pollution\.

## Posts
- [New Mexico Just Set One of the Strongest Oil and Gas Cleanup Standards in the Country](https://earthworks.org/blog/new-mexico-just-set-one-of-the-strongest-oil-and-gas-cleanup-standards-in-the-country/)
- [A Mining Company Loses Its Bet](https://earthworks.org/blog/a-mining-company-loses-its-bet/): What started as a handful of brave Indigenous women risking their lives to physically block the entrance to a mine project in March 2012 contributed to a critical step in defense of land and water\. 
- [“We Have to Do Whatever We Can”](https://earthworks.org/blog/we-have-to-do-whatever-we-can/): Indigenous land and water defenders strategized to defend the Guatemalan people\. Here's how\.
- [Indigenous Council Files Complaint Over Indonesian Mine’s Responsible Producer Certification](https://earthworks.org/blog/indigenous-council-files-complaint-over-indonesian-mines-responsible-producer-certification/): Copper Mark awarded PT Freeport Indonesia a renewed certification claiming that their Grasberg facility “fully meets” all but one of its 33 criteria for responsible mineral producers\. The Indigenous Aika Tribe in Central Papua filed a grievance challenging the credibility of the company’s claims\.
- [US Customs Blocks Copper Imports Over Allegations of Slave Labor](https://earthworks.org/blog/us-customs-blocks-copper-imports-over-allegations-of-slave-labor/): Mine workers in Bor, Serbia may be exposed not only to unsafe working conditions but also coercion and control that violates basic human rights\.

## Action Alerts
- [Tell Senators — Reform Mining Laws\. Don’t Weaken Them](https://earthworks.org/actions/call-on-oregon-to-protect-the-mcdermitt-caldera/): A bill in Congress would weaken antiquated US mining law\. The law is already outdated and inadequate\. Congress must not tie the hands of federal agencies or transfer massive amounts of public land to private mining companies\.
- [Ohio Confirms Freepoint Is a Plastic Incinerator — Shut It Down Now](https://earthworks.org/actions/ohio-confirms-freepoint-is-a-plastic-incinerator-shut-it-down-now/): OEPA must shut down Freepoint until this waste incinerator goes through the process to obtain the right permit and proves it can operate safely and legally\!
- [No More Blowouts\! Tell Your Elected Officials to Fight for a Better Future Now](https://earthworks.org/actions/tell-the-army-corps-why-you-oppose-the-air-products-facility/): We need all states to deliver the clean air and safe communities we were promised\.
- [Thank New Mexico Leaders for Protecting Our Environment](https://earthworks.org/actions/take-action-for-environmental-justice-in-lithium-valley/): New Mexico just secured tens of millions of dollars each year to create jobs and cut pollution — paid for by the polluters responsible\.
- [Tell Congress to Stop Big Oil and Gas War Profiteering](https://earthworks.org/actions/reject-the-proposed-ambler-road-protect-the-heart-of-alaska/): Tell Congress to support the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act, S\. 4111 in the Senate\.

## Media Releases
- [Louisiana Community Resistance Forces Blue Hydrogen Plant Cancellation](https://earthworks.org/releases/louisiana-community-resistance-forces-blue-hydrogen-plant-cancellation/): Corporate claims that some mining projects don’t create mine waste don’t match up with technology\.
- [Greenwashing Mining’s Biggest Environmental Challenge](https://earthworks.org/releases/greenwashing-minings-biggest-environmental-challenge/): Corporate claims that some mining projects don’t create mine waste don’t match up with technology\.
- [Xinka People Say “No” to the Escobal Mine](https://earthworks.org/releases/xinka-people-say-no-to-the-escobal-mine/): The Xinka Parliament has released the long\-awaited decision on the Escobal Silver Mine\.
- [Civil Society Calls on Panama to Permanently Close Canadian\-Owned Mine as President Mulino Considers Next Steps](https://earthworks.org/releases/civil-society-calls-on-panama-to-permanently-close-canadian-owned-mine-as-president-mulino-considers-next-steps/): 60 civil society organizations call on Panama to permanently close the Cobre Panamá mine\.
- [Bill Advances to Ban Oil \& Gas Waste Dumping on PA Roadways](https://earthworks.org/releases/bill-advances-to-ban-oil-gas-waste-dumping-on-pa-roadways/)

## Resources
- [Earthworks 2024 Annual Report](https://earthworks.org/resources/earthworks-2024-annual-report/): Explore Earthworks' 2024 Annual Report and see how donor support helped protect communities, advance climate solutions, and hold polluters accountable worldwide\.
- [The Future of Mine Waste: From the Myth of Zero Tailings to Real Solutions](https://earthworks.org/resources/the-future-of-mine-waste-from-the-myth-of-zero-tailings-to-real-solutions/): Corporate claims that new mining projects don’t create mine waste don’t match up with current technology\.
- [Comments on Colorado Air Quality Permit Fees](https://earthworks.org/resources/comments-on-colorado-air-quality-permit-fees/)
- [Comments on Allegheny County Board of Health EQT Leto Dehydrator Air Quality Permit](https://earthworks.org/resources/comments-on-allegheny-county-board-of-health-eqt-leto-dehydrator-air-quality-permit/)
- [Dumping by the Numbers](https://earthworks.org/resources/ocean-dumping-numbers/)

## Issues
- [Protecting Communities from Tailings Disasters](https://earthworks.org/issues/protecting-communities-from-tailings-disasters/): Industrial\-scale mine waste storage dams are collapsing more frequently and more severely, literally killing communities and ecosystems\.
- [Loopholes in the Clean Water Act](https://earthworks.org/issues/loopholes_in_the_clean_water_act/)
- [Oil and Gas Health Effects](https://earthworks.org/issues/oil-and-gas-health-effects/): For years, residents of oil and gas field communities have reported health problems that either started or got worse after oil and gas development activities began in the area where they live, work, and play\. 
- [Air Pollutants](https://earthworks.org/issues/air-pollutants/)
- [Minimizing Air Pollution](https://earthworks.org/issues/air-pollution/): Oil and gas operations produce a variety of air emissions such as hazardous air pollutants and greenhouse gases \(e\.g\., methane and carbon dioxide\)\.

## Campaigns
- [Making Clean Energy Clean, Just and Equitable](https://earthworks.org/campaigns/just-clean-energy/): We advocate for the emerging renewable energy economy to move toward mineral recycling and reuse, and demand reduction to avoid irresponsible and unjust mining practices\.
- [Energy Field Investigations](https://earthworks.org/campaigns/field-investigations/): Earthworks' partners with communities to protect their health and the climate by making visible normally invisible air pollution from oil and gas facilities\. With video evidence in hand, we help communities pressure regulators and companies to reduce pollution\.
- [Proyecto de Empoderamiento Comunitario](https://earthworks.org/campaigns/investigacionesdegas/): Earthworks colabora con las comunidades para proteger su salud y el clima haciendo visible la contaminación normalmente invisible de las plantas de petróleo y gas\. 
- [No Dirty Gold](https://earthworks.org/campaigns/no-dirty-gold/): No Dirty Gold is an international campaign working to ensure that gold mining operations respect human rights and the environment\.
- [A year of pollution: Shell Plastics turns one](https://earthworks.org/campaigns/shellaccountability/): On November 15th, the largest plastic production facility in the Northeast United States will mark one year of operations\. 

## Locations
- [Dominican Republic](https://earthworks.org/locations/dominican-republic/): Earthworks is in solidarity with communities near the Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic\.
- [Indonesia](https://earthworks.org/locations/indonesia/): As the world’s largest nickel producer, Indonesia sits at the crossroads of climate protection, clean energy and human rights\.
- [Serbia](https://earthworks.org/locations/serbia/)
- [Brazil](https://earthworks.org/locations/brazil/): Earthworks supports frontline community groups and social movement organizations calling for safer tailings disposal facilities and demanding justice for the crimes committed by mining companies that have led to loss of life and destruction of entire communities\.
- [Pennsylvania](https://earthworks.org/locations/pennsylvania/): Earthworks exposes the harms of the oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania across the supply chain and across time, from cradle to grave\. 

## People
- [Autumn Ortiz](https://earthworks.org/people/autumn-ortiz/)
- [Kassandra Lisenbee](https://earthworks.org/people/kassandra-lisenbee/)
- [Javier Solis](https://earthworks.org/people/javier-solis/)
- [Katya Larina](https://earthworks.org/people/katya-larina/)
- [Tyler Offerman](https://earthworks.org/people/tyler-offerman/)

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## Categories
- [Energy](https://earthworks.org/blog/category/fracking/)
- [Mining](https://earthworks.org/blog/category/mining/)
- [Policy](https://earthworks.org/blog/category/policy/)
- [Air Pollution](https://earthworks.org/blog/category/air-pollution/)
- [Climate Change](https://earthworks.org/blog/category/climate-change/)

## Tags
- [oceans](https://earthworks.org/blog/tag/oceans/)
- [fishing](https://earthworks.org/blog/tag/fishing/)
- [mining](https://earthworks.org/blog/tag/mining/)
- [first quantum](https://earthworks.org/blog/tag/first-quantum/)
- [panama](https://earthworks.org/blog/tag/panama/)

## People Categories
- [Staff](https://earthworks.org/blog/people-categories/staff/)
- [Board Member](https://earthworks.org/blog/people-categories/board-member/)

## Resource Types
- [Official Comments](https://earthworks.org/blog/publication-types/official-comments/)
- [Letter](https://earthworks.org/blog/publication-types/letter/)
- [Report](https://earthworks.org/blog/publication-types/report/)
- [Fact Sheet](https://earthworks.org/blog/publication-types/fact-sheet/)
- [Earthworks Journal](https://earthworks.org/blog/publication-types/earthworks-journal/)

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