In the United States, we’re working to promote an equitable and managed phaseout of fossil fuels, ending fossil fuel finance, and supporting frontline fights to stop oil and gas expansion.
The United States continues to be the largest expander of oil and gas globally, as exposed in our 2023 groundbreaking Planet Wreckers report. In the United States, OCI works to expose the country’s role in oil and gas expansion, coordinating with movement partners to make a clear call to end fossil fuels and create pressure for greater climate leadership.
We work to pressure the federal government for policies that will slow the growth of the oil and gas industry, fight false solutions, shift public finance away from fossil fuels, and support a just transition and managed phase-out of fossil fuels. We also provide research, mobilization, and communications support to movements and allies on the ground, and at the state level in key states, who are working to stop fossil fuel infrastructure, extraction, and false solutions.
Advance an equitable phase-out of fossil fuels by strengthening a base of progressive politicians aligned against Big Oil, holding the United States accountable to its finance commitments, and challenging polluter power through research and communications.
Deepen relationships with frontline organizers in North America and support frontline campaigns to defeat keystone projects through research, communications, funding, lobbying, and action support.
The United States accounts for more than one-third of planned global oil and gas expansion through 2050, the most of any country in the world.
Gas exports are expected to nearly double through 2035, driven by the expansion of U.S. fracking and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals.
The United States has approved the most fossil fuel finance since the end of 2022, in clear violation of the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP).
A new report analyzes how the Inflation Reduction Act fails to reduce fossil fuel production or alleviate impact on environmental justice communities, and that current policies will instead lead to a deadly increase in oil and gas production and exports.
With oil prices rising to near-record levels due to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, companies producing oil and gas in the United States are in line to make tens of billions in additional profits. Under conservative estimates, we find the U.S. upstream oil and gas industry will collect a windfall of $37 to $126 billion in 2022 alone.
In this six-part series, we explore the ongoing oil, gas, and petrochemical boom in the Permian Basin and Gulf Coast. It is a story of runaway toxic infrastructure, environmental injustice, and climate overshoot.
It's back. Again. Manchin has introduced another “dirty deal” aimed at fast tacking fossil fuel expansion. The Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 is a direct attack on our climate and the communities on the frontlines of fossil fuel extraction.
We need energy policies that halt fossil fuel expansion and equitably transition communities to renewable energy–not more handouts to the fossil fuel industry.
