There's plenty to fight for this year

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Dear Friend,

While we wait to see what unfolds with this new Congress, we also know we’re ready for this moment and we can continue pushing for progress this year. We ended 2022 by pushing the USPS to electrify its trucks, defeating Senator Manchin’s dirty permitting reform for the fourth time, and protecting Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from being ruined by the development of a heavily polluting metals mine on adjacent land. Supporters like you have taken action on a breadth of critical issues such as advocating for clean air and water protections, removing toxics from our daily lives, powering everything with clean energy, working to end our dependency on fossil fuels, advocating for environmental justice, working to end the biodiversity crisis – and delivered results. Whether it was through participating in an agency rulemaking during public comment periods or reaching out to your representatives, together we made progress.

In the coming year, our work continues. When we win or when promises are made to protect the environment, invest in our ailing infrastructure, and stop fossil fuel extraction, advocates remain vital to holding our decisionmakers accountable. We still depend on advocates like you to make sure the promises by our leaders are kept and no compromises are made. We hope we can count on you to keep pushing for progress. Even though power will shift in Congress, the power of the people is what gets things done.

We’ll need your help to make this year more impactful than the last. You can do that today by clicking here to take all the actions below.

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Tell the EPA to ban leaded aviation gasoline

While the use of leaded gasoline in most cars was banned 25 years ago, leaded aviation gasoline is still used in nearly 170,000 piston-engine aircraft across 20,000 airports. The EPA estimates that emissions from these airplanes account for about 70% of lead released into the atmosphere. Send a letter to the EPA today to advocate for regulating this common source of lead pollution!

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Protect the Western Arctic from oil drilling

The Willow Project is a disastrous Western Arctic drilling plan that could generate as much carbon as 66 coal plants emit in a year, jeopardize the health and traditional practices of nearby Alaska Native communities, devastate local wildlife like polar bears, migratory birds, and caribour. Thanks to an Earthjustice lawsuit, the project is on hold for now. However, the Bureau of Land Management released a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and finished a new comment period – which means the agency is still moving towards allowing drilling. Join us in calling on Secretary of the Interior Haaland to stop the project.

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Stop fossil fuel facilities before they're even built

The fossil fuel industry has aggressive plans to lock in new oil and gas infrastructure in the form of crude oil and gas export terminals. In the Gulf of Mexico, Earthjustice is challenging proposed construction of four crude oil and gas terminals, which would cause significant greenhouse gas emissions and pose significant health and environmental risks for Gulf Coast communities. Tell the Biden administration: Protect our communities and our climate – reject the offshore deepwater port proposals in the Gulf of Mexico

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Tell the Biden administration to tackle the biodiversity crisis

The world is facing a biodiversity crisis. In the coming decades, a million of Earth’s species face the possibility of extinction due to climate change, pollution, and habitat loss. The crisis threatens not only the plants and animals we know and love, but all of us. World leaders committed to protect 30% of the world’s lands and oceans by 2030. The Biden administration must focus on actions the U.S. can take in the next two years to protect biodiversity.

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Protect the endangered Gulf of Mexico whale from extinction

The Gulf of Mexico whale can be as big as a railroad boxcar and as heavy as a typical fire truck and is the only large whale species that lives year-round in the waters of the United States. And because of fossil fuel exploration development and other human activities, it is also the most endangered large whale species in the world. Only about 50 of these rare whales remain. Join us in urging the Biden administration to protect the endangered Gulf of Mexico whale from extinction.

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Your activism is creating change — and we're just getting started. Keep it up by clicking here to take all the actions above on one page.

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Sincerely,
Swetha Pottam
Digital Advocacy Associate

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