Help us call on the administration to act on its professed values

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Dear Friend,

In the last month, a heat wave in the Pacific Northwest killed hundreds, California’s Death Valley recorded the highest temperature ever measured, and wildfire smoke from the West Coast filled lungs on the East Coast. In northern Minnesota, an oil company is making direct payments to local police to intimidate and harass peaceful protesters of Line 3, paving way for a pipeline to run through the heart of the Anishinaabe people’s territory without their consent.

Despite these emergencies, the Biden administration is actively defending the previous administration’s destructive actions. The Trump-era permits for the Line 3 pipeline, a drilling project in the Arctic that requires refreezing permafrost melted by climate change, and the Dakota Access Pipeline are all being defended by the Biden administration. Meanwhile, the pesticide industry is lobbying the EPA to decline to ban chlorpyrifos, despite the danger this neurotoxin poses to farmworkers and our food.

This is the context in which the administration touts its commitments to fight the climate crisis, prioritize the rights of Indigenous communities, and center environmental justice across policymaking. We can’t ignore the administration’s hypocrisy and tacit encouragement of further environmental injustice and climate destruction. We must hold them accountable. There will be no justice if the administration continues affronting tribal sovereignty, baking the planet, and poisoning farmworkers for the sake of polluter profits.

The administration’s deference for the status quo is not just a concern for DC insiders — it’s harming people across the country, and it’s time they hear from us about it. I hope you will join us in taking the actions below to tell the administration to equitably implement its environmental justice commitments rather than continue aligning with the Trump administration on multiple critical issues.

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Stop the Line 3 pipeline

The Anishinaabe people of northern Minnesota have waged a seven-year effort to stop the Line 3 pipeline from being built in the heart of territory where they retain the rights to hunt, fish, and harvest wild rice and other plants. The proposed pipeline would carry 760,000 barrels of tar sands of oil per day, destroying sacred places and locking in decades of rising climate pollution at a time when we cannot afford any more. Tell the Biden administration to support the people, not the polluters, and stop the Line 3 pipeline.

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Biden: Follow through on your environmental justice commitments

For too long, our government and the fossil fuel and chemical industries have perpetuated systemic racism by disproportionately exposing communities of color, Indigenous communities, and economically disadvantaged communities to the highest levels of toxic air and water pollution. Meanwhile, the same communities often don’t have access to affordable energy, transportation, and housing. Now is the time for bold and concrete solutions to rebuild our country in a sustainable and equitable way.

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Protect Indigenous sacred sites now

Far too often, projects that affect Native lands, waters, and resources begin construction without proper consent, forcing tribal communities and Native peoples to the frontlines to fight on everyone’s behalf for what should already be protected by law. Tell President Biden to recognize the traditional, legal, and moral rights of Native nations and Indigenous peoples to protect sacred places.

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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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Sincerely,
Kyle Berquist
Digital Advocacy Specialist

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