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Hi John,
Trump and his big business backers don't like the rules protecting public lands. Now they're tossing those rules out the window and making sure the public no longer has a say.
This dangerous, reckless move threatens public lands and imperiled species coast to coast. It's also deeply illegal, so the Center for Biological Diversity just sued.
Please help keep up our fight to protect the planet with a donation to the Future for the Wild Fund. Thanks to generous champions of the wild, all gifts through Wednesday will be matched.
The U.S. Department of the Interior manages hundreds of millions of acres of land and more than 3 billion acres of oceans and waters.
Since the 1970s, the department has encouraged the public to comment on logging, mining, drilling, road construction and other projects. That's because the public wants to see the wild preserved.
But this process stands in the way of Trump's agenda to drill, build and pave over public lands — so he told the Interior Department to eliminate longstanding procedures, even for projects already under review.
One example is in Alaska's Cook Inlet, where a population of unique beluga whales is clinging to survival. The administration is moving forward with an offshore oil and gas lease sale without any public comment. An oil spill there would devastate wildlife and coastal communities.
The Interior Department's latest move will make it much harder for people, including those who love the wild, to have any say in how air, water and public lands should be protected.
This administration sees public lands as assets to sell off to the highest bidder. But these lands and waters are not Trump's to sell, so we'll see him in court.
We've taken legal action nearly every five days since Trump took office in January. We won't stand by as he tries to dismantle the natural world and allow corporations to ransack it as they please.
Because threats to wildlife and public lands are ongoing, we need you for the long haul. Please start a monthly donation to sustain our defense.
For the wild,
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