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The Environmental Protection Agency must prioritize protecting families, communities, and our health

What's At Stake

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) crafts and enforces environmental protections that safeguard our air and water from pollution. Without a strong EPA, our communities’ health, children’s safety, and natural ecosystems would be at the mercy of corporate polluters that consistently put their own profits above our health and environment. 

As we face the impacts of climate change, extreme heat, large-scale pollution, and biodiversity loss, we need leaders who not only understand the severity of these crises but will take action to address them.

Use your voice and tell this administration that we deserve better than poisoned air and water, more cancer and asthma, or spiraling climate disasters. We expect our elected leaders to protect our health, communities, and planet. 

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Newly confirmed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has a thin record on environmental issues and is already overseeing a dramatically reduced workforce while redefining the agency’s core mission to focus more on the pursuit of so-called ‘energy independence’ that will only maximize corporate profit at the expense of health.  

The decisions made by the Environmental Protection Agency directly impact our everyday lives. We must hold Administrator Zeldin accountable and demand he uphold bedrock environmental protections that will safeguard our clean air and clean water and protect our communities from toxic chemicals. 

As Earthjustice advocates, you have joined us in defending policies that aim to build lasting environmental protections, and we cannot let this new administration erase the progress we have achieved together. 

 

A panel of EPA officials listen as members of the public give testimony at the hearing, as a changemaker seated in the chair nearest to the panel holds a sign that reads, "EPA: Make Power Plants Clean Up All Their Coal Ash."
A panel of EPA officials listen as members of the public give testimony at the hearing. (Jamie Kelter Davis for Earthjustice)

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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.