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Tell Newsom to sign these commonsense bills into law

What's At Stake

Since the Trump administration took office, we’ve seen widespread attacks on federal environmental regulations. While D.C. tries to hit the brakes, Earthjustice is charging ahead in California to fight for a cleaner future.  

Earthjustice’s team worked to build new pathways to clean our air and protect our climate, even as we defend existing standards from attacks by the Trump administration.  

Two bills Earthjustice sponsored this last legislative session are now on Governor Newsom’s desk – we need your help to get them across the finish line: 

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  • AB 1167 – California Ratepayer Protection Act: Californians have been living with skyrocketing energy bills, and this bill can help ease that burden. Monopoly utilities in California have been caught passing their anti-climate lobbying and advertising costs off to their customers, but this bill would install commonsense guardrails to prevent that. 
  • AB 1280 – Modernizing California’s Manufacturing Sector: California’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after transportation comes from the industrial sector. California has long been a national leader in manufacturing, and our factories employ over 1.2 million people. Now, our manufacturing facilities need to be upgraded with zero-emissions equipment  This bill, if signed, would give incentives to companies to replace fossil fuel-fired industrial equipment with clean technologies.  

One terrible bill we think Governor Newsom should veto: 

  • SB 34 – Hamstringing air quality protections: California needs every tool available to clean its air, but this terrible idea of a bill being pushed by large shipping and port companies seeks to tie up local air quality regulations.  

Earthjustice is standing up in Sacramento because we believe good policy will ensure California moves forward with the rest of the world. 

Urge Governor Newsom to sign these commonsense bills into law – and veto one terrible bill for air quality! 

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Workers use tools on an airplane wing in San Diego, California. (Frank Rogozienski / 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.