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| Dear Friend, |
| Every four years, the Environmental Protection Agency identifies where the agency and its state partners can prioritize staff and resources to address the most serious and widespread environmental problems, and for the first time, these enforcement priorities include initiatives to mitigate the climate crisis, address exposure to PFAS contamination, and protect communities from cancer-causing coal ash. To advance the Biden administration’s commitment to protect disadvantaged communities, the EPA will also integrate environmental justice considerations into its initiatives. |
| In addition, the Biden administration has released a comment period on one of the most effective tools that communities possess to prevent polluting projects happening in their own neighborhoods (National Environmental Policy Act). After the Trump administration radically weakened NEPA regulations, the Biden administration immediately took steps to reverse these dangerous rollbacks and restore the regulations. |
| This is the kind of progress that gives me hope. Restoring NEPA, the nation’s oldest environmental law, in addition to the EPA uplifting the issues of the climate crisis and pollution from PFAS and coal ash, shows me that these decisions are a result of your advocacy. Your involvement in the rulemaking process holds the Biden administration accountable. It’s with the help of your advocacy, getting plugged into our action alerts, and engaging on these issues that we could have gotten this far. |
| If this recent news of EPA’s enforcement priorities and a call to strengthen NEPA is telling us anything, it is that your voice is valued and can create change. We need you to stay in these fights. Please click here to take all of the actions below on one page. |
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