Action Alerts

Tell Congress to fight for you, not polluters and billionaires

What's At Stake

Congressional Republicans plan to ram through the worst environmental bill ever considered in Congress to advance President Trump’s agenda.

The list of harmful provisions is expansive. The bill sells out our public lands and oceans to the lowest bidder, eliminates critical funding programs and tax credits for clean energy, exploits our natural resources, cuts environmental justice funding, and tries to make many of these actions immune from court challenges. All to pay for handouts to polluting industries and tax breaks for billionaires.

Don’t let Congress vote to devastate our environment, hurt our communities, and increase energy prices. Tell your elected officials to protect our health, our public lands and oceans, and our affordable clean energy future.

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Polluter allies in Congress are pushing a big, bad budget bill with priorities such as:

  • Opening the Arctic and other cherished public lands and oceans to oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging
  • Creating loopholes that allow polluters to ‘pay-to-pollute’ and circumvent bedrock environmental laws like the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act to evade accountability from communities and courts
  • Defunding Inflation Reduction Act grants that are lowering energy costs and cleaning up pollution in communities facing disparate impacts of environmental injustices and climate change
  • Effectively repealing the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy tax credits that are driving hundreds of billions of dollars in investment and hundreds of thousands of jobs into communities across the country.

This means fewer resources to tackle our most pressing environmental crises while polluting industries reap the benefits. It means extracting resources from public lands and waters to fund tax breaks for the wealthy while the rest of us are left with the harms caused by their profit. It means taking away people’s healthcare and cutting funding for federal agencies that are tasked with helping communities that face disasters. It means increasing costs and putting financial stress on our families to line the pockets of billionaires. It also means that the courts would not be able to stop the dire harms from the Trump agenda.

We need you to tell your Members of Congress to vote NO on this disastrous bill.

Ask your elected officials to side with the American people by actively and publicly opposing any legislation that gives away our public lands, carves out handouts for polluting industries, cuts funding for programs that invest in our health and environment, and eviscerates the rule of law.

Now is the time to make your voice heard. Every Member of Congress needs to hear from their constituents that we are watching them to see who fights for polluters and billionaires and who fights for the public good.

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The U.S. Capitol is reflected in a fountain in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg Creative via Getty)

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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.