BREAKING: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has just taken action to revoke multiple Trump-era orders, including orders designed to fast-track offshore oil and gas leases.

She has also issued an order to strengthen enforcement of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires review of environmental impacts ahead of pipelines, highways and drilling projects on public lands, and the opportunity for affected communities to give input on the projects and potential alternatives.

This is huge. It's also proof that when the environmental movement turns out, we can make real change.

Friend — we can't stop here. Earlier this week we reported that Haaland had returned from a visit to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.

There is an urgent need to protect these sites and others like the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. In the years since Trump gutted protections, fossils and remnants of Native American settlements have been vandalized. Graffiti has been scribbled over ancient rock art. They've been opened up to the threat of mining.

Success is going to depend on grassroots pressure. To keep our campaigns going, we've set a $20,000 fundraising goal before the end of the month, and we're asking:

Can you pitch in? This fight is developing quickly — if we can't scale up ASAP, we're going to miss our window to make a difference. Donate today, even $5 helps »

Bears Ears represents critical sacred, cultural, and natural heritage for tribal communities within the region. Five tribes — the Navajo, the Hopi, the Ute Mountain Ute, the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Pueblo of Zuni — have led the fight to protect these sacred spaces from Big Polluters.

The fight isn't going to end with these monuments. Shortly after inauguration, President Biden issued an executive order calling for the conservation of 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030. The plan has a real shot at making access to nature more equitable, so that all people in this country have access to green spaces, regardless of race or zip code.

With Deb Haaland running the Interior Department, we have a conservation champion driving this plan forward.

Right now, only 12% of US lands are permanently protected, and about 23% of coastal waters. We're talking about doubling the amount of protected lands — working with local communities to expand and create new national and state parks and other protected landscapes, and significantly expanding the ocean areas off-limits to drilling and other threats.

This could be the most significant conservation effort in US history, but not if we hit roadblocks now with Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts.

We're asking for your help, friend. If everyone reading this email pitched in — even $5 — we'd blow through our fundraising goal in minutes. So we're asking:

Pitch in. Help hit our $20,000 goal. Even $5 is enough to make a difference »

Thank you, thank you, thank you — for everything that you do for the environment, friend.

Adam, Brooke, Casey, ChiQuita, Jim, Mike, Brent, and Vinnie
LCV Rapid Response Team