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Invest in clean energy and not fossil fuels

What's At Stake

As we move towards 100% clean energy, the fossil fuel industry is looking for a lifeline to protect its profits. It’s betting big on dirty hydrogen, carbon capture, and petrochemicals to keep up demand for its products – and keep polluting. We need to tell the Department of Energy not to give taxpayer dollars to corporate polluters for projects that will extend the life of fossil fuels.

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The Inflation Reduction Act is the biggest climate investment in history. It includes an additional $350 billion for Department of Energy loans to energy infrastructure projects. How this money is allocated will impact how quickly the U.S. transitions to clean energy – or how long we continue burning fossil fuels.

The fossil fuel industry and its political allies are pushing for this money to go to dirty hydrogen, carbon capture projects, and petrochemical facilities. Many of these facilities are planned in low-income communities and communities of color already overburdened by pollution and a long history of environmental injustice. If these projects go forward, they will lock in more oil and gas development, more climate pollution, and more toxic air pollution that poisons frontline communities. Instead, DOE loans must be directed to clean energy and other projects that reduce pollution and advance climate and environmental justice.

Tell the Department of Energy to follow through on the Biden administration’s climate and environmental justice commitments and see to it that our tax money does not support the fossil fuel industry.

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Your Actions Matter

Your messages make a difference, even if we have leaders who don't want to listen. Here's why.

You level the playing field.

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They may be hearing from industry lobbyists left and right, but hearing the stories of their constituents — that’s your power.

Our legislators serve at the pleasure of the people who gave them their job — you.

Make sure your elected officials know whose community and whose values they represent. When you contact your elected official, you’re putting a face and a name on an issue.

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Your action is with us in court.

If a federal agency finalizes a harmful action, the record of public comments provides a basis for bringing them into court. Read more.

Throughout each of the public comment periods we alert you to, Earthjustice’s attorneys are researching and writing in-depth, technical comments to submit — detailing how the regulation could and should be stronger to protect the environment, our communities, and our planet.

We need you to join us — your specific experiences, knowledge, and voice are crucial to add to the Administrative Record through the comment periods.

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It’s the law.

Federal agencies must pause what they’re doing and ask for — and consider — your comment. Read more.

Many of us may have never heard of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), but laws like these require our government to ask the public to weigh in before agencies adopt or change regulations.

Regulations essentially describe how federal agencies will carry out laws — including decisions that could undermine science, or weaken safeguards on public health.

Public comments are collected at various points throughout the federal government’s rulemaking process, including when a regulation is proposed and finalized. (Learn about the rulemaking process.) These comments become part of the official, legal public record — the “Administrative Record.”

When the public responds with a huge outpouring of support for environmental protections, these individual messages collectively undercut politicians' attempts to claim otherwise.

What this means is each of us can take a role in shaping the rules our government creates — and ensuring those rules are fair and effective.