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Defend our National Monuments

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What’s At Stake

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah. Gold Butte in Nevada. César E. Chávez in California. Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon. Northeast Canyons and Seamounts in the Atlantic Ocean. All these places and many more were designated as national monuments because they contain immense cultural, archaeological, and ecological value that deserve to be protected for current and future generations. These are some of our country’s most beloved, historic and culturally important places and we must urge our lawmakers to defend and protect our national monuments. Send a message to your Congressperson to defend these lands and waters from exploitation and destruction.

When areas are designated as national monuments, sacred tribal cultural sites are protected from looting, threatened species can roam free through wild lands, ocean ecosystems can be restored, and the lands and waters become off limits to the short-term, exploitative corporate gains of extractive industries.

Urge your members of Congress to safeguard our public lands and waters.

A moonlit arch rises over Grand Staircase-Escalante, a national monument under threat from the Trump administration.
Bob Wick / BLM

A moonlit arch rises over Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Your Actions Matter

Your messages make a difference, even if we have leaders who don't want to listen. Here's why.

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You level the playing field.

Elected officials pay attention when they see that we are paying attention.

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. 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.

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.

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 more 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.

“Earthjustice stands ready to defend the Antiquities Act and the national monuments protected under the law.”
– Heidi McintoshManaging Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office
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