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| Dear Friend, |
| This is no exaggeration: If the next presidential administration implements Project 2025, there will be devastating and irreversible consequences for our planet. |
| Project 2025 was written by the Heritage Foundation, a far-right think tank that helped mastermind the conservative takeover of the Supreme Court — a strategy that has already gutted the Clean Water and Clean Air acts. |
| Earthjustice is prepared to fight Project 2025 with hundreds of lawsuits if necessary to defend our bedrock environmental laws, stop climate change, and save endangered species. |
| Our 200 attorneys represent this country’s most effective legal force protecting the environment. We represent every client free of charge, so we rely on supporters like you to fund our work. Please donate today to help us stop the Project 2025 agenda, and your gift will be matched $1:$1. |
| MATCH ANNOUNCEMENT: RAPID RESPONSE LEGAL FUND |
| Friend, a group of Earthjustice supporters has come together to create the Rapid Response Legal Fund, which will match your donation $1:$1. This election is a critical juncture for our planet and the future of life itself, so we need to be prepared to fight, no matter the outcome. |
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| The last time Earthjustice had to fight a presidential administration bent on environmental deregulation, we won 85% of our lawsuits against them. |
| We are prepared to fight and win, but we are constrained by the resources we have available. With your support, we can fight and win more lawsuits to defend our planet. |
| Project 2025 takes aim at nearly every environmental regulation and protection. |
| Here’s just some of what it proposes: |
- Gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA): Project 2025 would rewrite the most successful legal tool we have for protecting wildlife in ways that would irreversibly harm imperiled species. It specifically calls for removing protections from gray wolves and Yellowstone grizzlies.
- No need for national monuments: Another proposal would repeal the Antiquities Act, which would strip all future presidents of the ability to protect priceless public lands and waters as national monuments.
- Weaken the Clean Air Act: Project 2025 would nix the part of the law that requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set health-based air quality standards.
- Less say for communities in environmental decisions: The plan would undermine key portions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which ensures you have a voice in major projects built near you.
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| Here’s why we’re prepared: |
- Defending endangered species: Earthjustice has gone to court dozens of times to defend the Endangered Species Act and guarantee protections for critical species. Our work has spared the grizzlies from planned trophy hunts, improved protections for sea turtles, and pushed the Biden administration to reverse some damaging changes to the ESA.
- Defending national monuments: Earthjustice successfully sued to protect Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah when their status was threatened. We also helped defend the monuments from a later legal challenge by the state of Utah that attacked the Antiquities Act itself.
- Defending NEPA: This summer, when 21 state attorneys-general sued to block important updates to NEPA, we interceded to fight back. The updates will ensure that critical infrastructure needed for the clean energy transition is built quickly and equitably and is resilient to climate change.
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| We are the nation’s largest nonprofit environmental law organization, and we know how to win. |
| In every case, we represent our clients free of charge, because justice should not have a price tag. Your generosity makes that possible. |
| Please donate today to help us fight Project 2025, and your impact will be doubled by our Rapid Response Legal Fund. |
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| Thank you for your ongoing partnership. |
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Sincerely,
The Team at Earthjustice |
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