Hi John,

Far-right Republicans just launched yet another congressional assault on the Center for Biological Diversity.

This new U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources "investigation" — like the first — is a fraudulent abuse of power. Mimicking Trump, they're weaponizing government power to intimidate and silence their opponents.

But the Center is not and cannot be intimidated. With your help, we'll aggressively turn the tables and take the fight to them.

Please stand with us by making an emergency gift today. Thanks to generous champions of wildlife, your gift will be doubled.

Within hours of getting the official "investigation" notice, I went public with a blistering response calling on Congress to investigate the real scandal instead: A Chilean billionaire and his mining company spending millions of dollars and getting 18 meetings with high-ranking Trump officials to successfully reverse federal policy protecting the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area from a massive mine.

This is the same billionaire who simultaneously bought a mansion and rented it out to Ivanka Trump.

It's the same mining company whose executives gave money to the Republican congressmen who launched this fraudulent investigation.

It worked. Within hours the Duluth News-Tribune quoted our rebuttal right in its headline:

"One of the groups responded in a letter that said, 'Your 'investigation' is in actuality an abuse of power, inappropriately weaponizing government powers against law-abiding American citizens.'"

But this isn't just about us. The massive mine is threatening endangered gray wolves, Canada lynx, and northern long-eared bats, along with moose and dozens of other wild species. We're fighting for them as we fight for ourselves. And we mean to win.

In my response I told Congress to name the time and place and I'll publicly testify about the shady dealings, including corporate donations to the "investigators" themselves.

We aren't scared. And our fight to protect wildlife, public lands, and clean air and water won't stop.

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For the wild,

Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

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