We need to be in this for the long haul

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Dear Friend,

Last Thursday marked four months since President Biden took the oath of office. We’ve had big wins, including undoing Trump’s rollbacks on environmental protections and recommitting to the Paris Agreement. We’ve also faced disappointment, as the Biden administration has refused to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline at the expense of the sovereignty and health of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

The administration’s inconsistent record isn’t reason to despair — it’s a call to organize, to gather our strength and push the Biden administration to do the right thing. The same roadblocks remain: polluters have seen the power of our movement grow in the last four years and will wield their influence to prevent us from winning the stronger protections we need.

These fights, even with a friendlier administration, aren’t new to us — we’ve sued every administration in the last 50 years when it hasn’t done enough to protect people and the planet. The progress we demand is going to take years of concerted pressure and advocacy, and we cannot afford to let polluters use that time to drown our voices out. I hope you will join us in picking an issue (or several) and staying engaged with it moving forward. We need you in this fight.

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Ban chlorpyrifos

For half a century, U.S. staple foods such as corn, wheat, apples and citrus have been sprayed with chlorpyrifos, a dangerous pesticide that can damage the developing brains of children, causing reduced IQ and attention deficit disorders. Now, after more than a decade of advocacy and a series of Earthjustice lawsuits, a federal court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to stop evading the law and ban all food uses of the neurotoxic pesticide, or prove that it is safe (something the EPA cannot do given the science). Join us in telling the EPA to finish the job and ban chlorpyrifos now.

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Protect the Arctic Refuge

In its last month in office, the Trump administration sold and signed lease contracts for oil drilling in the Arctic Refuge, putting one of the Earth’s last fully intact ecosystems at the mercy of the oil industry. This attack wasn’t surprising — the Trump administration mandated a lease sale in its 2017 tax giveaway that sold out working people and the planet for the benefit of corporations and polluters — but it is unprecedented and poses a dire threat to the Arctic Refuge. Tell President Biden to work with his allies in Congress to protect the Refuge!

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Say no to petrochemical proliferation

As we move towards zero-emissions and 100% clean energy, the oil and gas industry is grasping at straws to protect its profits by betting big on petrochemicals: toxic chemicals made from oil and gas that are used to make plastics, industrial chemicals, and pesticides. We need to tell the Department of Energy not to spend taxpayer dollars that will boost Big Oil’s petrochemical boom.

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We’ll need your voice in the fights that lie ahead. The best way to stay engaged is to sign up for text messages from Earthjustice by texting JUSTICE to 43428. Thank you for your advocacy and commitment to protecting people and the planet.

Sincerely,
Kyle Berquist
Digital Advocacy Associate

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