Action Alerts

September Action Newsletter

What's At Stake

The Trump administration is continuing its reckless, unprecedented assault on crucial climate protections for the sake of their corporate donors. Earthjustice is fighting back, but we can’t do it without you. 

Just this last month, we’ve seen the government attempting to rescind a critical forest protection measure, announcing plans to reduce the government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants, leasing the ocean floor outside of the Mariana Islands, and attempting to fast-track massive oil drilling projects in the Western Arctic.  

These proposals have public comment periods open, and that’s where we need you to speak up. Public comments matter – no matter who is in power. They serve as a powerful reminder to our government agencies that they work for us.  

Earthjustice advocates have stayed engaged every step of the way when the Trump administration tries to roll back crucial environmental protections.  

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Protect our forests from massive expansion of logging

One of the most important land and forest protection measures of our lifetime is under attack. The Roadless Rule keeps roads out of unfragmented, pristine national forest lands from clearcutting. The Forest Service took action to rescind this rule. There’s a public comment period open now until October 6, and we need your help.  

Stop another plan to mine the ocean floor 

As if drilling for oil on our public lands wasn’t enough, the Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to open the ocean floor outside of the Mariana Islands, which will be destructive for the ocean floor. Tell the Marine Minerals Administration to stop deep-sea mining before there’s no turning back. 

Defend the Western Arctic  

The Arctic is home to fragile ecosystems that our warming world is already putting in jeopardy, yet, the Bureau of Land Management has proposed a new permitting process that could rubber-stamp massive oil projects in the Western Arctic. Tell the Trump administration you oppose its plans to bring more drilling to the Western Arctic. 

Demand the Trump administration act on climate pollution from power plants 

Power plants are responsible for more than a quarter of U.S. climate pollution. But once again, the Trump administration is putting our lives at risk for the benefit of polluters by announcing plans to limit the government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from power plants. There’s a comment period open until Nov. 2, and we need you to tell the EPA that you oppose this plan.  

Attend a public hearing to protect climate safeguards 

On Oct. 1, the Environmental Protection Agency will hold a virtual public hearing on their proposal for stripping the government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Participating is easier than you think. Sign up today, register before the 9/29 deadline, and get the toolkit to help craft your public comment.  

Dark gray clouds of steam emerge from the top of a smokestack at night, lit by red lights on the smokestack with a dark blue sky in the background.
Emissions rise from a coal-fired generation station in Indiana. (Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg Creative via Getty Images)

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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.