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| I want to give you an honest assessment of the challenges we face and share why I am asking you to take advantage of our $3:$1 Giving Tuesday match — our biggest of the year. |
| #1: This administration is aggressively dismantling our environmental laws and selling off our public lands. |
- It is attacking the Roadless Rule, which protects 45 million acres of national forest.
- It is attacking the Arctic, with plans to open 1.56 million acres to oil and gas drilling.
- It is attacking our coastal waters, with plans to open the coasts of California, Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico to even more offshore drilling.
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| When the Trump administration breaks the law, we sue. That’s not a threat — it’s a promise. A promise to protect the wild places we love, clean air and water, and our future on Planet Earth. |
| #2: The Supreme Court is enabling the worst of Trump’s agenda. |
| The Court’s conservative bloc has regularly abandoned precedent and common sense to rubberstamp Trump’s policies. And our opponents have begun pressing their advantage on appeals, knowing they have a radical Supreme Court behind them. |
| It is a perilous moment for the rule of law. But perhaps counterintuitively, that makes our work in the courts even more urgent. |
| #3: We will never stop fighting back — and we are winning. |
- We’re winning internationally: Our team contributed to groundbreaking litigation in South Africa that stopped a massive new gas plant.
- We’re winning federal cases: We protected hundreds of millions of acres of pristine tropical ocean from commercial fishing.
- We’re winning at the state and local level: We are moving clean energy forward and stopping fossil fuel expansions in utility commissions across the country.
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| Every win matters, and we can’t do this without you. |
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Giving today means you will quadruple your impact. It’s our biggest match of the year, and it ends at midnight. We represent our clients free of charge, so anything you give will go four times as far to support our lawsuits and protect our planet.
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| Why now? |
| What we raise right now will help determine how many attorneys we can hire, how many lawsuits we can file, and how many protections we can defend in the critical months ahead. And our Giving Tuesday match will quadruple your impact, making your donation go further than ever. |
| Why Earthjustice? |
| Because we know how to fight and we know how to win. We filed more than 200 legal cases against the first Trump administration and won 84% of the decisions. We represent clients across all 50 states and in every major area of environmental law — no other public interest organization staffs more environmental attorneys — and in every single case, we represent our clients for free. |
| Why you? |
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Friend, in challenging times like these, we must grow our movement in order to grow our power. Your support will help us protect our communities, defend the wild spaces we love, and fight for our future on Planet Earth. Join us today with your first donation, and it will be matched $3:$1 to quadruple your impact.
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| If you aren’t able to make a donation today, we understand, and we hope you continue to fight for our planet and our communities in other ways. |
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Sincerely,
Libby Marsh
Senior Vice President of Development
Earthjustice |
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