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What's At Stake

One year ago, the Trump administration launched an unprecedented attack on our bedrock environmental laws.  Trump’s federal agencies are trying to undo our environmental protections so polluting industries can poison our air, contaminate our water, log our forests, and increase fossil fuel production. Earthjustice is scaling up to meet the moment, and we need you on our side. 

As we look at the upcoming environmental fights, we are 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 the administration to court.   

Take action now and tell the government to protect our treasured public lands, reject harmful fossil fuel projects, and protect old-growth forests. Environmental progress won’t happen without advocates like you.   

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Defend the Arctic Refuge from reckless oil and gas drilling 

The Arctic faces unprecedented threats from aggressive oil and gas drilling proposals.   The administration is now asking for comments on which areas of the Arctic Refuge should lease to fossil fuel companies for drilling.  We need to officially register our overwhelming opposition and say: the Arctic should be protected, not drilled for oil and gas.  

Tell Congress: Our children have a right to live in a toxic-free environment 

Despite promises from politicians to “Make America Healthy Again,” right now there is a bill moving through Congress designed by the chemical lobby to gut our main chemical safety law: the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Write to your members of Congress today and tell them our children deserve to have food and water free of toxic chemicals.   

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

BP, the company responsible for Deepwater Horizon – the worst oil spill in U.S. history –  is asking the federal government to approve a dangerous new ultra-deepwater drilling operation in the Gulf called Kaskida. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has until March 13 to make its final decision. Send a letter to BOEM today. 

Tell the Trump administration to keep this landmark conservation rule in place 

This landmark conservation rule has protected our forests from development for 20 years and is now under attack. We need your voice now to defend our forests. 

A large group of caribou cross a rocky, dry creek bed with a hill rising behind them.
Members of the Porqupine Caribou herd are crossing the Hulahula River. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. (Florian Schulz / protectthearctic.org)

Delivery to Bureau of Land Management, Congress, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and United States Forest Service

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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.