Dear NRDC Activist,

Serious learning disabilities and loss of intelligence. Poor impulse control. Developmental delays. Hearing impairment.

These are just a handful of the symptoms suffered by children who have been poisoned by lead-tainted drinking water.

Trump's EPA knew this but still refused to safeguard America's children from this devastating — and completely avoidable — harm. Rather than setting safeguards to ensure that we keep lead out of drinking water, they delayed key requirements and even refused to require the removal of most of the millions of lead service lines that are still in use in communities around the country.

NRDC is fighting to restore life-saving protections for safe drinking water, and we're pushing the Biden administration to take immediate action to reverse Trump's destructive policies. But we need you with us. Please make a monthly donation by TOMORROW, February 1, and every dollar of your first three gifts will be MATCHED up to $330,000 >>

Contaminated drinking water is not a hypothetical problem — it plagues communities across the country.

Two years ago, lead in Newark, New Jersey's drinking water registered at some of the highest levels recently recorded by a large water system in the United States.

NRDC and local partners have spent the last three years fighting in and out of court to ensure Newark officials provide safe drinking water to residents whose tap water has been contaminated with lead. Newark has made major strides over the past year, but the work is not done. Just this week, we reached a settlement with Newark that requires the city to continue to rapidly remove and replace all lead service lines at no cost to residents and continue measures to ensure residents will be protected from lead in their water.

This is great for Newark, but tens of millions of people across the country live in communities served by water systems that are contaminated by pollution or violate the EPA's already weak Lead and Copper Rule. And Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities, and low-income communities, are disproportionally plagued by unsafe drinking water. We cannot let this injustice stand.

With the election of President Joe Biden, we finally have an opportunity to reverse the damage inflicted by Trump's racist, pro-polluter administration and push for stronger federal protections to ensure everyone has access to safe, affordable drinking water.

And with your help, we're also asking that President Biden makes it a priority to reverse Trump's rollback of the National Environmental Policy Act, which would restore the rights of local communities to protect themselves under federal law from polluting projects.

You can help power NRDC's urgent work to protect clean water, clean air, and our planet by making a monthly gift. For this limited time, your first three gifts will be MATCHED for double the impact on Biden's first 100 days in office.

Your support is so crucial that the daughter of NRDC Founding President John Adams, Kate Adams, and her husband Duke Wiser and their family, have committed to match your first three monthly gifts dollar for dollar until February 1 (up to a total of $330,000).

Please hurry. We only have one more day to take advantage of this matching gift opportunity and fight for every community to have a voice to protect their children, their heath, and their environment.

Thank you for sticking with us. I know we can count on you to keep fighting by our side.

Sincerely,

Erik D. Olson
Senior Strategic Director, Health & Food, NRDC