If we want to stop runaway climate change, we have to stop burning fossil fuels for energy. We partner with local activists and indigenous leaders around the Pacific Rim to reduce fossil fuel emissions and advocate a just transition to a clean energy economy.

Update: Shell Oil Should Not Get Special Treatment from EPA

Press Release | July 19, 2012
Despite protests from Pacific Environment and a coalition of conservation organizations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) went ahead and granted Royal Dutch Shell special treatment. In response to Shell’s...

Fed Finances Coal Export

Press Release | May 23, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – The Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), a federal government trade promotion agency, voted to provide $90 million in financing to the top U.S. coal...

Senate Support for U.S. Export-Import Bank is Big Win for the 1%

Press Release | May 15, 2012
Today the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 2072, a bill to reauthorize the federal government’s Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), which provides billions of dollars in public financing for harmful fossil...

Bay Area Smart Energy 2020

Report | March 1, 2012
Bay Area Smart Energy 2020 – At a Glance “Audaciously ambitious,” Forbes Magazine Our report “Bay Area Smart Energy 2020” (BASE 2020) shows how the San Francisco Bay Area...

PE's Save America's Artic Seas Campaign Honored with Benny Award

Press Release | October 21, 2011
Pacific Environment's "Save America’s Arctic Seas" campaign was honored with a Business Ethics Network’s 2011 BENNY Award, which recognizes some of the most brilliant corporate campaigns for their contributions...

Shell Drops Offshore Oil Drilling In Beaufort Sea for 2011

Press Release | February 3, 2011
Peter Voser, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, today announced that the oil giant has abandoned plans for exploratory drilling in Alaska's Beaufort Sea in 2011. Despite the...