|
|
Dear Friend, |
The Biden administration is making big strides to tackle the climate crisis, protect public health, and move towards a clean energy future through executive rulemakings. Public advocacy — including more than 347,000 comments from Earthjustice supporters — has played a key role in securing these protections. |
Some of the critical safeguards the Biden administration announced this month include:
- Finalizing historic standards that will limit the amount of carbon pollution that power plants can emit.
- Establishing the first-ever national PFAS drinking water standards to reduce people’s exposure to serious health risks and prevent thousands of premature deaths.
- Implementing an extension of cleanup requirements to hundreds of old coal ash dumps across the country that have been leaking toxic pollution into groundwater.
- Strengthening the crucial Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the successful air pollution rule that limits mercury and other toxic emissions from coal and oil power plants.
- Unveiling new protections for certain areas within Alaska’s Western Arctic — a public lands area that has been targeted by ConocoPhillips and other oil companies for oil and gas drilling.
|
These regulations being finalized is the culmination of years of advocacy, from Earthjustice, its clients, and from advocates like you who spoke up time and time again as these issues were up for public comment or when momentum was needed to push the needle in a positive direction. Without you, this wouldn’t be possible. |
Despite these victories there are still legal challenges on the horizon and other environmental protections to pursue. We are in a crucial moment of progress, and we need your help to get some key initiatives across the finish line. Advocates like you speak up during every comment period and opportunity — and it makes a difference. Click here to take all the actions below on one page. |
|
|
|
Sincerely,
Swetha Pottam
Digital Advocacy Associate |
|
|
|
|
Earthjustice, 50 California Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94111 |
About Us | Receive Less Email | Unsubscribe |
This email was delivered to you by Earthjustice. |
Photo Credits: A coal ash pond full of dead trees lies adjacent to Duke Energy's Buck Steam Station in Dukeville, N.C., in 2016. (Chuck Burton / AP) |
© 2024 |
|
|