Action Alerts

October Actions

What's At Stake

Severe storms in western Alaska have brought in hurricane-force winds, record flooding, and wiped out at least 15 villages. Like in other parts of the world, storms in Alaska are becoming more frequent, more intense, and more destructive due to the climate crisis. Earthjustice stands with western Alaska tribes and families. Here’s how you can help.

Even though government workers are still furloughed due to the federal shutdown, the Trump administration is continuing to prioritize corporate profits over the needs of the public. We are seeing this in recent actions to prop up the failing coal industry, proposals to drastically rewrite chemical safety rules, and proposals to open Alaska’s Western Arctic to aggressive oil and gas drilling.

As Earthjustice fights in court and on the Hill to preserve our landscape from pollution, protect biodiversity, and fight for a zero-emissions future, we need to keep up the pressure.

Take action now and tell the government to side with the American people over billionaires and polluting industries. Climate progress won’t happen without advocates like you pushing our government to prioritize the environment and our public health. We’ll need you in our corner as we forge ahead.

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Here’s how you can help western Alaska

Recent storms, including the remnant storm from Typhoon Halong, brought widespread damage to multiple western Alaska villages. Residents of the two hardest hit villages, Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, were evacuated. With winter on its way, and vast destruction, it’s not clear yet if or when people can return home. Here’s how you can help.

Save the Arctic from reckless drilling

The Arctic faces unprecedented threats from aggressive oil and gas drilling companies. These risky ventures endanger fragile ecosystems, Indigenous communities, and accelerate the climate crisis. There’s a comment period open that needs your input.

Protect our families from the dangers of toxic chemicals

Our families and communities have a right to be protected from toxic chemicals found in the products we use, the air we breathe, and the water we drink. But now, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed drastically rewriting our chemical safety rules in ways that would let it ignore the true dangers of toxic chemicals in our everyday products. Send a letter today voicing your opposition.

Protect our waterways from toxic coal plant wastewater

For decades, coal-fired power plants have treated our waters like open sewers. Last year, the EPA finalized improved wastewater treatment standards for these plants. Now, Trump’s EPA is trying to delay and ultimately gut these stricter rules to bail out the coal industry. Tell the EPA today to protect our water.

Stop this ultra-deepwater drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico

Fifteen years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon — the most destructive oil spill in U.S. history — the same company is asking the federal government to approve a new, massive offshore drilling project in the Gulf. We need to show strong public opposition to another drilling project that risks harm to Gulf communities.

One white owl sits on the ground with a small animal in its mouth while another hovers above the ground with its wings spread.
Snowy owls in the western Arctic. Earthjustice has fought for decades on multiple fronts to protect this irreplaceable region. (Kiliii Yuyan 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.