May Actions
What's At Stake
Polluter allies in Congress have been working overtime to dismantle environmental protections. This week alone, the House voted to overturn a crucial Clean Air Act regulation and then the Senate re-wrote the rules to roll back clean air standards that was supposed to pave the way for new state standards for clean cars and trucks. On top of all that, a big, bad budget bill is working its way through the halls of Congress that, if passed, would sell our public lands and oceans to industry, exploit our natural resources, and cut environmental justice funding and clean energy tax credits to pay for handouts to polluting industries and tax breaks for billionaires. We’ll need your help to reach out to your elected officials to side with the American people over billionaires and polluting industries.
Advocates like you are speaking up when Congress tries to dismantle hard-won and deeply popular environmental protections, sell off our public lands and oceans, and slash environmental justice funding. The policies the Trump administration is attacking are policies that you’ve helped us build. Together, we can defend the progress we have achieved.
Earthjustice is fighting back. Our attorneys are filing timely lawsuits challenging abuse of power. We are defending landmark laws and policies that clean up pollution and pave the way for a rapid transition to clean, affordable energy – one that doesn’t saddle any community with toxic air and water.
Elected officials may be hearing from corporate lobbyists left and right, but they should serve the will of the people who gave them their job – you. It’s time we reminded them of that. We’ll need you in our corner as we forge ahead.
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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.