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| Dear Friend, |
| The last month has been difficult, there’s no denying that. Not only did the Supreme Court continue its attack on our fundamental rights and public health safeguards, it looks like hope for transformative climate investments from Congress has faded. Despair and frustration are fundamentally human responses to these attacks and failures, but we have to keep up the fight. We must continue pulling every lever available to us, because every bit of carbon we keep out of the atmosphere, every bit of pollution we keep out of our bodies, and and every bit of habitat we preserve gives us a better chance of persevering — and ultimately succeeding — in our fight for healthy people and a healthy planet. We need to be in it for the long game. |
| With help from Earthjustice supporters like you, we’re laying the groundwork to win those fights. Here’s what we’ve been up to recently: |
- We sued the Postal Service for its disastrous plan to buy gas-guzzling trucks, and, with help from your actions, embarrassed the agency enough that it opened a new comment period to hopefully clean up its mess.
- We sued the EPA to compel it to clean up coal ash dumps that continue to poison our water supply.
- We fought Trump’s rollback of the Clean Water Act and encouraged the EPA to take comments on how to restore and strengthen protections.
- We won our lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rollback of the Endangered Species Act, leaving a clear path for the US Fish and Wildlife Service to strengthen the implementation of the law.
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| Earthjustice’s legal work is essential, but the truth is that it takes public engagement from people like you to secure the protections we need. Too many times, we’ve gone to court and won, only for government agencies to delay, water down, or ignore the work they’re legally required to do. The antidote to this is you — when an agency sees that everyday people are following its work, it knows that there will be consequences if it fails to act. |
| The events of the last month increased the importance of the comment periods we’re asking you to participate in. Because President Biden has authority to act without Congress, they represent our best hope for action to confront the crises we face. We need everyone to use their voice to urge President Biden to do everything within his power to create change. |
| With lawsuits and letters, we’re creating and engaging in comment periods — and it’s critical we keep at it until we get the job done. Keep up the two-pronged fight by clicking here and taking all the actions below on one page. |
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