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Safeguard a major victory on coal

What's At Stake

More than 43% of all coal produced in the U.S., and more than 85% of all federal coal, comes from the Powder River Basin. The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) decision to wind down coal leasing will keep billions of tons of highly polluting coal in the ground. We need your help to defend the decision.

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The administration’s decision is a direct result of Earthjustice litigation that resulted in a federal judge forcing the BLM to redo its environmental analysis for coal mining plans in Powder River Basin.

Mere weeks after this victory, the fossil industry’s allies in Congress are already lining up to overturn the decision.

Tell the Department of the Interior you support its plan to wind down coal leasing in the Powder River Basin.

The market has moved away from coal as an electricity source as states and energy-consuming companies seek out cleaner and more affordable energy sources. That’s why the coal industry is desperately using its remaining political influence to keep itself afloat — its continued existence is not warranted on economic or environmental grounds.

Though the industry has a legacy of influence in Washington, we have you. Join us in writing a letter to the Department of the Interior in support of the leasing wind down.

North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. (EcoFlight)
North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. (EcoFlight)

Delivery to Secretary of the Interior Haaland

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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.