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— Note from the desk of Mitch Bernard, NRDC President/Chief Counsel —

Hi NRDC Activist,

If it feels like we've been fighting nonstop to protect our planet for the
past 2+ years since Trump came into office, well, it's because we have:
since the first week after his inauguration, NRDC has filed 87 lawsuits
against this administration.

Let's do the math: on average, we're suing the president every 10 days.
And we're getting results: we've won 47 of the cases resolved so far and
suffered only three setbacks — an amazing track record that speaks for
itself.

And as you might have heard earlier this week, NRDC will now likely sue
the Trump administration again, this time over their disastrous new
Endangered Species Act rollbacks, which could wipe out protections that
saved bald eagles, grizzly bears and so many other iconic species from
extinction.

But today, I'm writing with good news (yes, good news) about several
recent courtroom victories over the Trump administration that helped save
public lands, coastlines, and endangered wildlife.

Here's a look at some of those groundbreaking legal wins:

* Defending our natural heritage in the Southwest: A federal appeals
court ruled in our favor, finding that the Interior Department's
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) illegally approved the drilling and
fracking of oil and gas wells in the Greater Chaco region of New
Mexico, a spectacular landscape sacred to indigenous tribes. The court
reversed the approval of 25 drilling permits, and the landmark case
has national implications for BLM decisions to allow drilling. [ [link removed] ]Read
more here >>
* Forcing energy giants to pay up: Another court blocked the Interior
Department from trying to repeal regulations closing loopholes that
enriched fossil fuel companies at the expense of taxpayers. The repeal
would have let oil, gas, and coal companies avoid paying millions of
dollars in royalties for mining and drilling on our public lands.
[ [link removed] ]Read more here >>
* Upholding President Obama's permanent ban on offshore drilling: A
judge ruled that Trump illegally sought to reinstate oil and gas
leasing in the pristine, sensitive Arctic Ocean and wildlife-rich
Atlantic deepwater canyons. [ [link removed] ]Read more here >>
* Opening the door to protecting threatened giraffes: An NRDC lawsuit
finally forced the Trump administration to concede that giraffes may
warrant protection under America's Endangered Species Act. Giraffe
populations have plunged by 40 percent in the last 30 years. And
America is a big importer of giraffe hunting trophies and bone
carvings. [ [link removed] ]Read more here >>
* Protecting whales on the brink: In the face of NRDC legal pressure,
the Trump administration finally listed the Gulf of Mexico whale as
endangered after dragging its feet for years. An estimated 22 percent
of the species were decimated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and
there are only 33 of the whales left on the planet. [ [link removed] ]Read more here
>>

It's an impressive list, and
it will
only continue to grow because when we're up against Trump, the law is on
our side.

In fact, NRDC is still waging dozens of other critically important
courtroom battles: lawsuits to save the Clean Power Plan, protect national
monuments like Bears Ears and Grand-Staircase Escalante, restrict the use
of bee-killing pesticides, stop the climate-busting Keystone XL tar sands
oil pipeline, and so many more.

But all the legal expertise in the world can't enable us to wage and win
cases on so many fronts if we don't have the strong support of people like
you.

It's likely you've signed a petition, contacted your elected officials,
donated, or done all of the above. No matter what your support has looked
like, having you behind us has been vital to our success every step of the
way.

I want to thank you — personally — for standing shoulder to shoulder with
us. Whether we're up against a fossil fuel polluter or a reckless
president, you have my word that we will continue marshaling the rule of
law in order to hold them accountable.

I look forward to continuing this fight alongside you for the sake of our
environmental future.

Have a wonderful rest of your summer, and a great Labor Day weekend.

Sincerely,

[1]Mitch
Mitch Bernard
President/Chief Counsel, NRDC
P.S. NRDC has just started its fiscal year, and we need all the help we
can get as the administration shows no signs of slowing down its atrocious
attacks on our climate, public health, wildlife, and wild places. If you
want to help fund our ongoing battles, in and out of court, I strongly
encourage you to [ [link removed] ]make a special gift here, or even better — join NRDC
as a Monthly Partner today, and we’ll match your first three gifts, up to
$100,000.



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the environment in the most effective way possible.

The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is to
safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural
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