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April Actions

What's At Stake

The Biden administration is making big strides to tackle the climate crisis, protect public health, and move towards a clean energy future through executive rulemakings. Public advocacy – including more than 347,000 comments from Earthjustice supporters – has played a key role in securing these protections.  

Some of the critical safeguards the Biden administration announced this month include:  

  • Finalizing historic standards that will limit the amount of carbon pollution that power plants can emit. 
  • Establishing the first-ever national PFAS drinking water standards to reduce people’s exposure to serious health risks and prevent thousands of premature deaths. 
  • Implementing an extension of cleanup requirements to hundreds of old coal ash dumps across the country that have been leaking toxic pollution into groundwater.  
  • Strengthening the crucial Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the successful air pollution rule that limits mercury and other toxic emissions from coal and oil power plants.  
  • Unveiling new protections for certain areas within Alaska’s Western Arctic – a public lands area that has been targeted by ConocoPhillips and other oil companies for oil and gas drilling.  

These regulations being finalized is the culmination of years of advocacy, from Earthjustice, its clients, and from advocates like you who spoke up time and time again as these issues were up for public comment or when momentum was needed to push the needle in a positive direction. Without you, this wouldn’t be possible.  

Despite these victories there are still legal challenges on the horizon and other environmental protections to pursue. We are in a crucial moment of progress, and we need your help to get some key initiatives across the finish line. Advocates like you speak up during every comment period and opportunity – and it makes a difference. 

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Urge the EPA to ban lead wheel weights now  

Regulators are ignoring a significant source of lead exposure that threatens public health and harms our environment.  Lead wheel weights —the unassuming metal bars added to your wheels by your local mechanic when rebalancing your tires—are a big source of lead in our communities. Tell the EPA to ban this source of lead pollution now.    

Reforming the federal leasing program is crucial to meaningfully address climate change 

Through a process called the federal leasing program, the government auctions off the rights to extract natural resources on publicly owned lands or waters to private companies. These fossil fuel leases lock us into decades of dirty energy and climate-heating pollution. Tell the Biden administration to protect our public lands from fossil fuels.   

Recover Snake and Columbia River salmon  

In late February, White House officials and representatives from the Six Sovereigns signed the historic Columbia River Basin agreement. The agreement includes promises to support salmon restoration, expand clean energy production, and modernize other key services provided by the lower Snake River dams. Now it’s time to pressure Congress to Act. 

Thank the Biden administration for protecting the Western Arctic  

Thanks in part to the advocacy of tens of thousands of Earthjustice supporters, the Biden administration unveiled new protection for certain areas within Alaska’s Western Arctic. Join us in thanking the Biden administration for bolstering protections for some of the most sensitive and ecologically important areas in the Western Arctic.  

Elliot Turner holds up an in tact lead wheel weight he and other members of The Hyperbolics found a block from the EPA building along Constitution Ave., in Washington D.C...The Hyperbolics are a First Lego League team based out of Sterling School in Greenville SC, who made a trip to DC ask government officials to ban lead wheel weights Friday October 7, 2016.
An intact lead wheel weight found a block from the U.S. EPA building along Constitution Ave., in Washington, D.C. (Matt Roth for Earthjustice)

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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.

Elected officials pay attention when they see that we are paying attention. Read more.

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.

Whether or not you voted for them, they work for you, for the duration of their term.

Make sure your elected officials know whose community and whose values they represent. (Find your local, state, and federal elected officials.)

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.

Lawsuits we file that challenge weak or harmful federal regulations rely on what was submitted during the comment period. The court can only look at documents that are in the Administrative Record — including the public comments — to decide if the agency did something improper.

Your actions aid our litigation. Taking action and submitting comments during a comment period is substantively important.

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.