GEP - non-legal

Question 1

Greenpeace

Answer 1

• advocate for change in government, businesses and institutions to take climate action
• main goals: undermining fossil fuel sector, hold polluters accountable, provide more efficient protections for biodiversity
• created a documentary ‘Dirty Power’ in exposing the political figures, major industry members, and media organisations which continue to undermine and thwart tangible climate action, viewed and shared over 200,000 times

Question 2

Earth Justice

Answer 2

• ‘because the earth needs a good lawyer’ –> fighting to achieve justice for the environment
• Federal Judge Rules Massive Montana Coal Mine Expansion Illegal 2022
• strip mining of an additional 6,500 acres containing about 70 million tons of coal, which would be burned almost exclusively at the Colstrip power plant and release over 100 million tons of greenhouse gases