| Dear Friend, |
| Earthjustice is days away from our fiscal year fundraising deadline, so I’m emailing you again to tell you about one of Earthjustice’s 600+ legal cases and ask for your support. |
| A Trump-era decision currently allows oil drillers to kill about 13,000 rare sea turtles every year in the Gulf of Mexico. We are suing to stop this deadly allowance and protect the Gulf. |
| Without the protections our lawsuit aims to secure, these species will face a marine nightmare: |
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| Endangered sea turtles are subject to torturous underwater air gun blasts, suffocating oil spills, and marine pollution, which kill as many as 13,000 rare sea turtles per year and harm tens of thousands more. |
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| The less than 100 remaining Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whales face vessel strikes at lethal speed that could drive the species to extinction — the first ever human-caused whale extinction. |
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| Another catastrophic oil spill would devastate populations of sea turtles, whales, sharks, and other marine life. |
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| In this case, as in every case, we represent our clients free of charge — because justice should not have a price tag. |
| Your support is indispensable to Earthjustice and to our clients. Donate today and your gift will be matched $2:$1 to help us hit our $303,000 online fundraising goal by June 30! |
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| At issue in this case is the programmatic biological opinion (BiOp) for all offshore oil and gas activities in the entire Gulf of Mexico — a policy that dictates protections for every threatened and endangered species in the Gulf. |
| We have been pursuing this case since 2020, when the Trump administration released a disastrous BiOp for the Gulf that allows the oil and gas industry to kill an extraordinary number of endangered animals. And the death toll could be higher still in the event of another disaster like the 2010 BP Horizon spill — a catastrophe the BiOp claims will not happen. |
| Earthjustice is suing to protect critically endangered sea turtles, save the last of the Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whales, and keep billions of barrels of oil safely underground in the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Earthjustice was built for massive fights like these — built by the support of donors like you. We were founded in the midst of the Earth Day movement, when 20 million people poured into the streets to demand environmental protection be enshrined in our laws. |
| Now, 200 attorneys at Earthjustice use the power of our bedrock environmental laws to protect the Earth — from the rolling waves of the Gulf to the cold plains of the Arctic, and everything in between. We have 1,000 victories and counting, all thanks to you. |
| Please, join our fight. |
| The fossil fuel industry may have billions in profits to pour into its legal schemes, but we have a movement on our side — and the best environmental attorneys in the country, too. Make a donation before our fiscal year deadline on June 30 and it will be matched $2:$1. |
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With gratitude,
Chris Eaton
Earthjustice Senior Attorney
Oceans Program
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| P.S. If you have already mailed your gift, thank you! We appreciate your patience as we update our records. |
