In this issue: How the National Environmental Policy Act is the people’s environmental law, what a shorebird can teach us about the biodiversity crisis, the fossil fuel industry’s false climate solution, and more.

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FROM THE FRONTLINES

A ‘side-deal’ aimed at silencing community input

The National Environmental Policy Act provides an essential bridge to building projects in a sustainable, just, and equitable way because it ensures people have a voice in major projects built in their communities. But there are backroom negotiations in Congress underway involving oil and gas companies that don’t want community input. If allowed to go forward, the “dirty permitting side-deal” would let industry fast-track fossil fuel projects while sidelining communities, creating more pollution, and worsening the climate crisis. Read more: [link removed]

How does carbon capture extend the life of fossil fuels and harm communities?

For one, carbon capture technologies are energy intensive and often powered by dirty energy, adding to an industrial facility’s overall carbon footprint. Subsidizing these technologies also diverts resources away from real climate solutions like clean energy and electrification, and it blocks progress towards environmental justice. Read more: [link removed]

What a shorebird can teach us about the biodiversity crisis

Each year, red knot shorebirds make a crucial stop along the Atlantic coast in the middle of their 9,000-mile journey from South America to the Arctic Circle. But overharvesting of horseshoe crabs in the Atlantic by the fishing industry is disrupting their food supply. Read more: [link removed]

How our public waters get leased for oil

Disastrous offshore oil spills, like the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill in the Gulf, each began with an offshore federal lease sale. The Biden administration has a critical opportunity to determine the immediate future of offshore leasing with its five-year leasing plan. Here’s what you need to know about the plan, how you can engage, and why it’s crucial to demand that the Biden administration chooses the option for allowing no new offshore oil and gas development in the plan. Read more: [link removed]

How Earthjustice — and you — are fighting for a fossil-free future

The culprit behind the climate crisis is also inextricably linked to every other major environmental hazard, from plastic waste to environmental racism — it’s the fossil fuel industry. We need informed advocates to play a critical role in the fight. But individual action alone can’t solve the climate crisis. The scale of this challenge requires collective action, something that groups like Earthjustice are fighting hard to coordinate. Read more: [link removed]

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The climate crisis harms everyone, but its burdens are not shared equally. Communities of color, low-income communities, tribal, and indigenous communities are on the frontlines of fossil fuel pollution and climate impacts. Join Earthjustice as we gather in conversation with environmental advocates and grassroots leaders working towards climate justice for two virtual events at this year’s Climate Week NYC 2022.

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