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What's At Stake

Nearly one year ago, the Trump administration launched an unprecedented assault on our bedrock environmental laws. Our attorneys stepped up to meet the moment, and so did you. Your advocacy is going to help us hold the line and build our clean energy future.  

As we reflect on the past year and look to the fight ahead, we are even more resolute to tackle the challenges ahead. We can’t do that without continuing to keep up the pressure and demand the future we want to see. 

Public comments matter, no matter who is in power. If the Trump administration finalizes harmful projects and rules, your comments become part of the official record. This provides Earthjustice with a basis for bringing them to court.  

The year ahead won’t be easy, but that’s why we need you with us.  

Take action now and tell the government to keep our water clean, protect our coasts, and force power plants to clean up their waste. Climate progress won’t happen without advocates like you.  

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Stop plans to mine the ocean floor  

As if drilling for oil on our public lands and clear-cutting our old-growth forests for timber weren’t enough for their corporate donors, the Trump administration is now eyeing uncharted territory for more extraction: the deep sea. We have until January 12 to speak out in opposition to this destructive proposal.

Defend the Clean Water Act  

Trump’s EPA is set to give corporate polluters what they want and put thousands of formerly protected wetlands and waterways at risk of toxic pollution and industrial development. Tell the administration that you oppose their plan to destroy critical clean water protections. 

Protect our coasts from new oil and gas drilling  

The Trump administration is trying to force offshore oil drilling on states, cities, and communities that do not want drilling off their shores and in their public waters — and we have an opportunity to voice our opposition.     

No more delays – time to force power plants to clean up their toxic waste 

Coal plants produce millions of tons of toxic coal ash a year. Hard-won regulations specify how they must clean it up. Now the Trump administration wants to give them a pass to pollute instead. Send a message to the Environmental Protection Agency and urge them to force power plants to clean up their toxic waste. 

Geese and waterfowl swim in a pond with mountains in the background.
The Candelaria Wetlands at the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (The Washington Post)

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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.