Action Alerts

September Actions

What's At Stake

Over the last month, Earthjustice supporters submitted over 200,000 comments urging our elected officials to protect our environment. You’ve spoken up for the legal backbone of federal greenhouse gas emission standards and urged the Forest Service to keep  one of our most effective land-conservation policies intact, joining the larger environmental movement in voicing our opposition to these destructive policies.  

As Earthjustice fights in court and on the Hill to preserve our landscape from pollution, protect biodiversity, and fight for an electric future, we need to keep up the pressure.  

Take action now and tell the government to side with the American people over billionaires and polluting industries. Climate progress won’t happen without advocates like you pushing our government to prioritize the environment and our public health. We’ll need you in our corner as we forge ahead.  

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Defend the Boundary Waters from mining pollution 

Boundary Waters, one of our treasured landscapes in Northern Minnesota, is under attack. Chilean mining giant Antofagasta wants to build a copper-nickel mine. If built, the Twin Metals mine would mean permanent destruction of habitat for hundreds of species. As climate change shrinks our planet’s biodiversity, we can’t afford to lose the Boundary Waters.  

Tell Congress to safeguard the Marine Mammal Protection Act

Marine mammals across the world face extinction thanks to human-caused threats.  The Marine Mammal Protection Act is one of our strongest tools to safeguard these mammals from extinction. Urge your members of Congress to oppose any efforts to weaken the Marine Mammal Protection Act.  

Tell the Trump administration: Keep our highways safe from hazardous materials

Every day, oil and gas companies haul potentially hazardous materials from oilfields onto our highways without following adequate safety rules. This is putting truckers and communities at greater risk of catastrophe. Join Earthjustice and our client, Truckers Movement for Justice, to demand that the federal government enforce existing hazardous material rules when it comes to hauling oilfield waste.  

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

Fifteen years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon — the most destructive oil spill in U.S. history — the same company is asking the federal government to approve a new, massive offshore drilling project in the Gulf. The regional Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) office in the Gulf is now weighing whether to approve BP’s new proposal.  We need to show strong public opposition to this risky project.

The sun sets over Alder Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota.
The sun sets over Alder Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota. (John Zilka / 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.