Last month, President Trump signed into law Congress’s deeply unpopular budget bill — authorizing the government to auction off vast swaths of public lands and waters for reckless drilling, mining, and logging to pay for tax cuts for big polluters and billionaires.

But NRDC supporters didn’t let them do it in silence — tens of thousands of you called and sent messages of opposition to your members of Congress, telling them loud and clear that you won’t stop fighting to protect the places we hold dear.

Now is not the time to give up — polluting companies and their cronies on Capitol Hill are betting we’ll stay silent so they can continue to destroy our shared lands and waters.

Add your name to stand up for our public lands and waters.

PFAS are widely-used, highly toxic chemicals found in everyday items from cookware to cleaning products — and new maps produced by NRDC show that unsafe levels of PFAS pollute our tap water.

Seventy-nine percent of U.S. congressional districts have PFAS-contaminated tap water that exceeds EPA standards for safe drinking water. This is a serious problem — PFAS are linked to cancer, hormone disruption, developmental harm, and so much more. And they can be damaging even at extremely low doses.

At the same time, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA will weaken its standards on toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water — putting more communities at even greater risk of suffering the devastating health impacts of PFAS.

Tell the EPA to keep toxic “forever chemicals” out of our drinking water.

NRDC and partner groups filed a lawsuit last month to force the EPA to address the threat of the unnecessary and dangerous chemical hydrogen fluoride (HF), which is used in dozens of American oil refineries despite its potential to form toxic acid clouds. At least 40 refineries across the country use HF despite the availability of safer, commercial-scale alternatives. Read More >

• Flint Finishes Lead Pipe Replacement in Historic Milestone: NRDC’s decade-long legal fight to replace lead water pipes in Flint, Michigan, is finished — nearly 11,000 lead pipes have been replaced and more than 28,000 properties restored. Read More >
• Public Advocacy Groups Take Trump Administration to Court for Illegal Coal Plant Extension: NRDC and eight other public advocacy groups took the administration to court for illegally requiring Michigan’s J.H. Campbell coal plant to stay open past its planned May 31 closure. Read More >
• California Home Hardening Investments Protect Property and Boost Economy: A new report commissioned by NRDC finds that home hardening — vital wildfire preparedness like replacing house vents with fine mesh to block embers — will both save lives and boost the economy as a whole. Read More >
• Legal Groups Caution Japan’s Largest Bank Over Controversial LNG Project that Threatens World Heritage Site: NRDC and ClientEarth USA warn Japan’s largest bank MUFG that its support of a dirty liquefied natural gas project in Mexico’s biodiverse Gulf of California could expose the bank to serious legal, financial, and reputational risks. Read more >

I’ll give you a hint: It’s not just those who faced disastrous floods in central Texas earlier this summer. It’s not just the tens of thousands of people in L.A. who lost their homes in the January wildfires. It’s not just residents in New Orleans and surrounding areas who are still recovering from Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago. And it’s not just homeowners. Read more to find out >

• Stop the Trump Admin’s Latest Attack on Our Climate and Health: Submit a public comment demanding that the EPA uphold their mandate to protect us from climate-busting pollution. Take action by the Sept. 15 deadline >
• Protect Arctic Public Lands from the Administration’s Attacks: The Trump administration proposed stripping protections for 13 million acres of the nation’s largest intact landscape, opening it up to dirty drilling. Send a message of opposition by the Aug. 4 deadline >
• Defend Lifesaving Limits on Power Plant Pollution: Tell the EPA you oppose their plans to repeal critical standards for power plants and toxic air pollution that NRDC supporters like you worked hard to secure last year. Take action by the Aug. 7 deadline >
• Protect the Public from Flesh-Dissolving Chemicals: While NRDC is fighting in court to regulate the use of toxic hydrogen fluoride in oil refineries, we need you to tell the EPA to get this deadly chemical out of our communities. Send a message >
• Tell J.P. Morgan to Keep Dirty Energy Out of an Irreplaceable Marine Sanctuary: A dangerous new liquefied natural gas project would turn Mexico’s irreplaceable Gulf of California into a gas station. Take action >

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