Policy & Leadership
We advocate for strong water policy solutions, and climate crisis answers driven by frontline community leadership and science.
Community & Equity
We work to empower underrepresented communities to help ensure environmental justice for all, especially in marginalized regions.
Climate & Resilience
We build local and national strategies to protect from climate impacts and future climate crises.
Our Projects
We promote environmental justice leaders and their work.
Our production team brings personal stories about the devastation of the climate crisis to the public to make positive change. We specialize in video production, and have two non-profit newsmagazines.
We promote legislation at all levels of government to help solve the climate crisis and bring justice to frontline communities.
EOPA Code Blue, 501 C-4 non-profit, works with communities, partners and other stakeholders concerned deeply with the state of our land and waters, especially how toxic fossil fuel pollutants hurt the public often leading to life long aliments. We are highlighting the injustice of the fossil fuel industry that has lead to an undeniable climate emergency around the globe.
We promote tangible solutions to the climate crisis like offshore wind, irrigation systems and other clean energy solutions. We report on true stories that can help bring change and have newsmagazines, Protect Earth News and Maine Insights.
WATER SECURITY
At least 40 of the 50 States will face water shortages this decade. Yet Saudi Arabia and China are extracting American water unsustainably. The Center for Naval Analyses released a report explaining how water insecurity can empower violent extremist organizations and place stable governments at risk. They also found that 70-80 percent of conflicts in rural areas are over water. The UN reports that since 1948, there have been 37 incidents of acute conflict over water.
Five billion people may face water shortages by 2050, according to the UN World Water Development Report and a 2016 UN Environment Programme study found that half the world could face water stress by 2030.
WATER AND DISEASE
At any given time, before COVID-19, half of the world’s hospital beds were occupied by patients suffering from diseases associated with contaminated water.
By the end of the century, almost all of the world’s population could be exposed to mosquito-borne diseases once limited to the tropics. The mosquito is already the world’s deadliest animal.
Diseases are emerging from melting permafrost and glaciers, where zombie fires are accelerating the disaster. Anthrax released from thawing permafrost killed a 12-year-old boy in Siberia in 2016. At least 20 other people were diagnosed and approximately 100 suspected cases were hospitalized. More than 2,300 reindeer in the area died from the infection. Even more worrisome are the microbes being released that scientists are yet to discover.
In the predominantly African American community of St. Louis County radioactive and dioxin waste is being spread further by floods exacerbated by climate change. The year leading to the recent Midwestern floods was the wettest on record. Now the area is a cancer and autoimmune disease cluster.
The Navajo Nation who are suffering from a nearly-20-year megadrought, reached a grim milestone when they set the highest per-capita COVID-19 infection rate in the U.S. At a time when handwashing is a matter of life and death, a third of the Navajo Nation lacks indoor plumbing.
In Fresno California half the water is polluted as fossil fuel companies sold their toxic waste to farmers as a pesticide, which was found to be carotenogenic and unfilterable. Fresno is pursuing a $100 million settlement with Shell Oil as a nearby town won a $22 million settlement. Add to the mix: Idle oil wells. In California , New Mexico and other states, they act as a major source of methane gas emissions, ground water contamination and air pollution. The facts are clear — this serious problem is getting worse and can’t be ignored. From Fresno to Los Angeles toxic oil and gas wells are in neighborhoods polluting.
I grew up 30 feet from an oil well,” said Nalleli Cobo. “When I was about 11, I was diagnosed with asthma. By the time I turned 19, we had shut down the drilling in our South L.A. neighborhood, but not before I was diagnosed with stage 2 reproductive cancer . . .
Nalleli Cobo. Los Angeles, CA
Shortform Documentaries
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Arabia has been buying American water rights throughout the Southwest, despite a historic 18 year drought in the region. There are no limits on the amount of water foreign governments can extract and export.
CALIFORNIA
Produced for Last Chance Alliance, a coalition of NGOs calling for the phase out of oil and gas drilling in California. We continue to produce work around fossil fuel production and its deadly impact on communities
VETERANS
Veterans who are lawmakers are continuing their service by protecting our land and water from water insecurity and climate change. They also fought for and won back the Land and Water Conservation fund in 2018