November Actions

What's At Stake

We know that this Trump presidency will be different. Donald Trump’s first term as president brought a wave of attacks on the environment, but his haphazard approach to policymaking helped us coordinate an effective resistance in court. No organization filed more lawsuits on behalf of clients to protect the environment during the Trump administration than we did – and we won 85% of our cases.  

The next generation cannot afford our inaction. In fact, cynical opponents of climate progress are counting on despair and disillusionment to crush our morale and hamper our efforts. The only way to prove them wrong is for us to act, and that’s exactly what you’ve done. Advocates like you have stayed engaged, participating in key fights to help secure clean air and water for all, electrify everything, and stop fossil fuel extraction. We can’t back down now, and Earthjustice won’t. 

Your advocacy, combined with our legal work, will continue to get results. Our fight to protect the environment is more important than ever, and we’ll need your support for the next four years and beyond.

Despair is not an option. Join us and fight back against the Trump administration. 

Trump’s second term will likely be a grave threat to our climate, environment, and health. Scientists agree that the next four years will be consequential for the climate – now’s the time to seize the moment. We’re going to need you to help fight deadly pollution, speed the transition to a clean energy economy, challenge attempts to drill in our precious public lands and waters, and enforce regulations to protect communities from dangerous chemicals and pesticides. Last time around, Earthjustice filed more than 200 cases in response to the Trump administration’s policies. We won 85% of the decisions — and with your support, we’ll do it again. 

Texas residents deserve to breathe clean air 

Residents in El Paso, TX, suffer from some of the worst air pollution in the country. The cars and cargo trucks that wait to cross the Bridge of the Americas (BOTA), which connects the United States and Mexico, spew thick black smoke into the air above the densely populated border community, home to thousands of people. Now there’s an opportunity to weigh in and be a part of the solution to this problem.  

This fossil fuel company has put communities in Puerto Rico in harm’s way 

New Fortress Energy, via Puerto Rico subsidiary NFEnergía, began designing a liquified methane gas (LMG) terminal for the San Juan Harbor. This is a violation of federal law because the terminal wasn’t approved by the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission (FERC). Join us in telling FERC to fully consider all the impacts of this terminal since its construction and its impact on San Juan Harbor and its surrounding neighborhoods.  

Urge the EPA to regulate a long-hidden source of PFAS 

Today, hundreds of millions of plastic containers undergo a fluorination process that creates harmful PFAS that can leach into our products and make their way into our bodies. PFAS (per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) are toxic “forever chemicals” linked to a wide array of adverse health effects at extremely low levels.  Tell the EPA to regulate this source of PFAS today. 

Donald Trump, sitting, hands a pen to a smiling man standing to his right as other people clap. All are wearing suits and in the Oval Office.
President Donald Trump gives the pen he used to sign an executive order to Dow Chemical President, Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris in February 2017. The executive order was a part of his push to slash federal government regulations. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Environmental Protection Agency

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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.