Action Alerts

October Actions

What's At Stake

Victory! There is no safe level of lead exposure for children. Yet, there is lead in our drinking water and lead dust found in paint used in schools, daycares, and homes. After years of Earthjustice litigation and joint advocacy alongside communities affected by lead contamination, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated two vital rules for getting lead out of our communities.  

These new rules come in response to successful lawsuits by Earthjustice and others, as well as advocacy by communities harmed by lead contamination. Over the last three years, over 103,000 comments were submitted by Earthjustice advocates alone on these two results.  

Our legal work combined with action taking is a winning combination that gets results. Nonetheless, our fight to protect the environment is more important than ever, and we need your support. Supporters like you rise to the occasion during every comment period and opportunity – and it makes a difference. 

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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. Tell the EPA to regulate this source of PFAS today.      

Tell FERC to protect Puerto Rican communities from LNG  

In 2018, New Fortress Energy began designing a large liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal in San Juan Harbor to import methane gas that would run through a pipeline to the nearby power plant. They violated federal law because they did not get approval from the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC). Urge FERC to schedule Spanish-speaking, in-person public meetings in Puerto Rico’s dangerous methane gas project area.

Speak up to defend our climate

In the last several months, federal agencies have made big strides in finalizing important federal protections to protect public health and help our planet. These standards build on the historic climate investments in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). However, polluting industries that worked to weaken these rules are now enlisting allies in Congress to dismantle significant climate progress. Call on your Congressmember today to stop attacks by big polluters and their allies.  

Finalize the strongest possible standards to clean up carbon pollution from existing gas plants

For years Earthjustice has fought to clean up power plants and expedite the transition to clean energy. Coal and gas-fired power plants are responsible for more than 30% of U.S. carbon pollution. The Biden administration recently finalized historic standards that would set limits on the amount of carbon pollution existing coal and new gas-burning power plants are allowed to emit. Join us in urging the Biden administration to finish the job.  

Workers install new copper piping from a larger spool.
Workmen prepare to replace old water pipes with new copper pipes in Newark, New Jersey in 2021. The city replaced nearly all of its 23,000 lead service lines with new copper pipes. (Seth Wenig / AP)

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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.