Action Alerts

November Actions

What's At Stake

We got some bad news – the Willow project is moving forward. A federal district court in Alaska sided with ConocoPhillips and the Biden administration in our lawsuit against the massive oil drilling endeavor. The Willow project is the largest proposed oil and gas undertaking on U.S. public lands, as it stands to accelerate the climate crisis by emitting about 260 million metric tons of greenhouse gases over the next 30 years. But Earthjustice will not back down, as we appealed this decision.  

Earthjustice supporters like you have generated over 284,000 letters and comments directed at the Biden administration over the years voicing your opposition to the Willow project. Earthjustice has fought off bad ideas from the fossil fuel industry and we will persist until we complete the transition to clean energy. Advocates like you are critical to this process – while we may have faced a setback in the Willow project, speaking up for your values will always be needed because your comments go on public record.  

Our work is not over, and we need you to stay in these fights. 

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Tell the Bureau of Land Management we need the strongest possible protections for the Arctic  

This comment period gives us the opportunity to tell BLM to stop future Willow projects. The Arctic is a critical last refuge for wildlife. Fossil fuel development puts this irreplaceable ecosystem at risk while threatening our planet. We’ve advocated for decades in courts and Congress to protect these lands, and we’re not done yet. There is one comment period on the Arctic that needs your input. 

We need strong standards to reduce pollution from dirty power plants.

For too long, fossil-burning power plants have had a free pass to pollute. Coal and gas-fired power plants are responsible for more than 30% of U.S. carbon pollution, and they also emit other pollutants that harm our air, water, and health. Urge the administration to enact the strongest possible standards to reduce pollution from dirty power plants.  

We need stronger protections from dangerous chemicals 

We have a right to be protected from toxic chemicals found in the products we use, the air we breathe, and the water we they drink on a daily basis. Far too often, these toxic chemicals go unregulated. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed rules to change the process it uses to evaluate the risks of toxic chemical exposures and the agency is asking for your input. 

We must restore threatened and endangered species and their habitats to vibrant health 

The globe is experiencing a biodiversity crisis that threatens to unravel the very fabric of life as we know it. Species ranging from wildflowers to wolves, butterflies to blue whales, and corals to condors face mounting challenges to their survival. It does not have to be this way. The Endangered Species Act gives us the tools to help these species survive, and to recover them to healthy numbers. We need to urge the Biden administration to strengthen Endangered Species Act regulations to achieve the law’s ultimate purpose: to restore threatened and endangered species and their habitats to vibrant health. 

A pair of snowy owls in the Western Arctic, in the area close to Lake Teshekpuk. One owl crouches down, holding a small rodent in its mouth. The second is in midflight, with its wings spread.
A pair of snowy owls in the Western Arctic, in the area close to Lake Teshekpuk. (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.