Actions for the week of July 14, 2025
Greetings, Activists!
Summer is well under way and it’s safe to say we’re feeling the heat. From microplastics to forest cover, we’ve got three actions you can take to fight rising temperatures and environmental degradation, and help keep earth cool.
Action 1
🪧☠️🫷 NO Williams Pipeline: Ask the NYS DEC for More Time
The Oklahoma fossil fuel company Williams has reapplied to the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation for permits to build its Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline. William intends to excavate a 23-mile long trench in the seabed off Staten Island, Brooklyn, and the Rockaways in which it would lay a huge and very expensive pipeline. This trenching would churn up long-buried industrial toxins up into the waters off our shores.
While the previous attempt failed, because President Trump has declared an “energy emergency,” Williams has been emboldened to reapply.
For a project like this, the DEC must solicit public comments. However, it just issued the call for comments on July 3 and has allowed only 30 days, far too brief for any meaningful participation.
Send the DEC a short email requesting an extended comment period and, even better, a public hearing!
Action 2
🥤🚫🐢 Discover how microplastics impact your health—and what you can do about it
Join 350Brooklyn on Thursday, July 17 at 7:00 pm for a powerful virtual forum: Tiny Plastics, Big Problems—How to Protect Yourself from Microplastics.
We’ll hear from two experts—Dr. Megan Wolff, Executive Director of the Physician and Scientist Network Addressing Plastics and Health (PSNAP), and Katrin Scholz-Barth, environmental engineer and educator—on where microplastics come from, how they affect our health, and how we can reduce our exposure.
This eye-opening event is part of our Plastic-Free July campaign and open to the public. Register here and bring your questions for a live Q&A!
Action 3
🪓🙅🌲 Protect forests from a massive expansion of logging!
Following up on promises to ramp up logging —including clear-cutting—across federal forests, the administration has announced plans to obliterate the Roadless Rule, a landmark land-conservation policy that has protected many of the most pristine backcountry areas and intact ecosystems within our National Forest System against costly and harmful road building and logging since 2001.
Tell the administration that you oppose increased logging in our most pristine federal forests and weakening of environmental protections.
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