Our Purpose

Communities, grassroots organizations, and allies formed the Permian Gulf Coast Coalition (PGCC) to protect our families, neighbors, and environment from the oil, gas, and petrochemical buildout in the oil fields of west Texas and southeast New Mexico to the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. Expansion of oil, gas, and petrochemical infrastructure in the Gulf Coast region threatens to construct an expansive, permanent network that would have catastrophic, long-lasting impacts on public health, land and water resources, Indigenous sacred sites, and our global climate.

Collectively, we strengthen and amplify our voices, generate and distribute more resources to the frontlines of our campaigns, and hold each other accountable to our principles and commitments in the fight for a just and equitable economy across the Permian Basin to the Gulf.

We believe that we will have a greater chance of success in protecting our communities and our climate if we work together with clarity, unity, and accountability. We work collaboratively and in coordination while being rooted in values of shared leadership, shared resources, and democratic participation, rooted in the Jemez Principles.

Our mission is to work together to secure a just transition that protects our communities from the oil, gas, and petrochemical buildout across the Permian Basin to Gulf Coast.

Our vision is to continue creating a world where the land, sky, oceans, and water are home to an abundance of life. Where the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the lands where we live, play, work, and enjoy are free of toxics. We believe that there are safe, just, and equitable paths away from fossil fuels and petrochemicals. 

We work to bring systemic change through a holistic approach to tackling fossil fuel extraction, transport, production, external costs, and waste across the fossil fuel chain. We focus on prevention rather than cure and provide effective solutions to slow with an end goal of stopping the fossil fuel industry by means of a just transition for our most vulnerable communities.