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Tell Congress: The Farm Bill Must Center Communities, Not Corporations
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The food and farm bill offers an opportunity to transform the food system by combatting climate change, addressing past discrimination against underserved farmers and people of color, and protecting farmworkers from unjust labor practices. Unfortunately, the current House bill would cut nutrition programs and cater to the interests of large polluting corporations.
The Senate has the power to preserve climate-smart agriculture and nutrition access for the most vulnerable community members.
According to a new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, corporations and special interests have spent more than half a billion dollars lobbying Congress over the past five years to pass policies like the House's broken bill. We can't afford to have Big Ag corporations tighten their grip on our food and farm system.
Make sure that your senators are building toward a better future for farmers, food workers, and families. Urge your senators to champion science-based legislation that protects the climate, workers, and nutrition.
Don't Let Congress Roll Back Decades-Long Progress on Vehicle Emissions
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The transportation sector accounts for 28 percent of global warming emissions—more than any other sector in the United States. In March, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took important steps to address these concerns by finalizing the clean truck and clean car standards and setting a clear timeline for manufacturers to provide cleaner vehicle choices.
Unfortunately, the oil industry and other profit-driven special interest groups are lobbying Congress to roll back this hard-fought climate progress via the Congressional Review Act, which enables Congress to overturn recent agency decisions—in this case the EPA's recent vehicle emissions safeguards.
Write today and urge your members of Congress to vote no on overturning the EPA's clean car and truck standards. Let Congress know their constituents support science-based policies to protect the climate.
Save the American Bumblebee
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The American bumblebee is an iconic native pollinator whose range once stretched from coast to coast. But the past 20 years have been a disaster for the species.
Due to threats including habitat loss, pesticide use and disease, sightings of the bee have declined by 89%, and it's disappeared completely from eight states. The decline of this once-common native bee is alarming and heartbreaking — and a harbinger of massive biodiversity loss across the country.
To prevent the extinction of this fuzzy teddy bear of a bee, in 2021 the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect it under the Endangered Species Act. When the agency failed to make the right decision, we took it to court in 2024.
You can help. Tell the Service that now is the time to protect American bumblebees — before it's too late.
Protect tigers by switching to forest-friendly products
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The Forest Stewardship Council label means the product is from a responsibly managed forest—one where trees are harvested legally, highly hazardous pesticides are not used, the rights of Indigenous people are protected, and more. And it can be found almost everywhere, as every part of a tree is used to make products—like rubber for shoes and bark for corks. Simple everyday decisions can make a major impact on saving forests—and tigers.
Pledge to buy forest-friendly products when available and commit to preserving nature's beauty for future generations.
Help Stop Future Pandemics
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Humanity's relationship with nature is broken. The fact that we are in a global pandemic is proof of that. And if we continue to destroy the natural world, we will see more outbreaks like COVID-19, and the next pandemic could be even more deadly and costly.
There are direct links between what we do to nature and the emergence of infectious diseases. We need to change how we are consuming wild animals, how we are producing food, and how we are using land.
Take action today. Send a message to Congress asking them to take the necessary steps to help prevent future pandemics.
Sign On to Stop Wildlife Crime
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Despite increased efforts to tackle the surge in poaching, nearly 110,000 elephants have been killed in the last 10 years—highlighting the need for urgent international action to address the crisis.
African and Asian countries are reeling under a poaching crisis. Ruthless criminal networks are plundering the wild to supply skyrocketing demand for rhino horn, illegal ivory and tiger parts. As a WWF supporter, you know that wildlife crime is the most immediate threat to wild elephants, tigers and rhinos. And you share our concern about its connection to regional conflicts, national security and even terrorism.
WWF is urging governments—particularly those of demand countries such as China, Vietnam, Thailand and the U.S.—to strengthen law enforcement, invest in more boots on the ground and commit to long-term demand reduction efforts. But we also need your support to stop demand for illegal wildlife parts and products. Pledge to stop wildlife crime and commit to preserving nature's beauty for future generations.
No Plastic in Nature
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In March 2022, UN Member States agreed to negotiate a legally binding global treaty to end plastic pollution. This was a historic decision, and a major leap towards a plastic free ocean for all. Now, this framework will be negotiated throughout a series of meetings over the course of the next two years and is expected to be in place by the end of 2024.
WWF urges world leaders to act strongly and decisively in developing the full content of the treaty by the end of 2024.
Pledge for Our Planet
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The diversity of life on our planet faces major challenges from threats like climate change, deforestation, overfishing, and illegal wildlife trade.
But each of us can make a difference. And together, we can protect our planet and keep global warming below 1.5°C (2.7°F).
Our impact on the planet primarily comes from what we eat, what we buy, how we power our homes, and how we travel from place to place. Of course, governmental policies and protections also play an important role.
Together, we can take action to create lasting solutions and protect the future of nature.
Ask Congress to support the FOREST Act
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One of the largest drivers of deforestation around the world is the expansion of commercial agriculture. Most of this land-clearing is illegal—fueling nature loss, climate change, corruption, and crime. The US must take steps to protect forests, the climate, and communities by stopping illegal deforestation. The bipartisan FOREST Act, introduced in both chambers of Congress, would require companies to trace where products come from and confirm that they are legally produced.
Tell Congress: Advance plastic pollution policies
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Every day, massive amounts of plastic flow into our natural environment, equating to over a dump truck of waste entering our oceans every minute. Plastic-related pollution has a significant impact on our environment, and it can negatively affect our communities and their health.
We need strong federal policy solutions, including the passage of bipartisan legislation, to drive needed changes in the ways we use, recycle, and dispose of plastic so that it stops ending up in nature. Ask your Representative to support these bills this year.
A Farm Bill to support people and the planet
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Globally, our food systems are a leading driver of greenhouse gas emissions and nature loss – and the Farm Bill is one of the biggest opportunities to reverse these losses and drive significant improvements for climate, nature, and people.
As Congress reauthorizes the Farm Bill this year, they must seize this opportunity to improve the sustainability of our food and agricultural systems, and we need your help. Call for a Farm Bill that protects and builds upon climate- and nature-smart agriculture investments in rural communities, addresses food loss and waste, halts conversion of critical ecosystems, and promotes regenerative agricultural practices to support the resilience of landscapes, rural farms, and ranches.
Ask your members of Congress to ensure that the Farm Bill supports healthy people, a healthy planet, and a healthy farm economy.
Help Stop Corporations from Hijacking the US Food and Farm System
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Big Agriculture has hijacked the US food and farm system. Extreme consolidation in the meat and poultry industry gives companies like Tyson Foods the power to pollute at will, which hurts farmers, workers, and consumers.
Congress has an opportunity to take back control from giant corporations in a new food and farm bill.
In a new five-year food and farm bill due by September 30, Congress should incorporate proposals such as the Farm System Reform Act—which would strengthen the US Department of Agriculture's ability to crack down on the monopolistic practices of meatpackers including Tyson Foods.
Write today and tell Congress we need a food and farm bill that puts people over corporate profits.
Urge the US Dept. of Justice to Investigate Big Oil
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At a recent Senate Budget Committee hearing on Big Oil's denial, disinformation, and doublespeak, evidence of the fossil fuel industry's harmful climate deception only continued to grow. The fossil fuel industry has known for decades that their products are dangerous to a stable climate and human wellbeing; yet they continue to lie, deceive, and delay meaningful action.
It's time for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to look into the significant evidence of deceptive behavior from Big Oil. Urge Attorney General Merrick Garland to launch an investigation into the fossil fuel industry's coordinated effort to mislead the public and policymakers, just like it did with Big Tobacco.
We need action at the highest levels of government to hold this powerful industry accountable for the harm it has caused to people and the planet.
Safeguard a major victory on coal
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More than 43% of all coal produced in the U.S., and more than 85% of all federal coal, comes from the Powder River Basin. The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) decision to wind down coal leasing will keep billions of tons of highly polluting coal in the ground. We need your help to defend the decision.
The administration’s decision is a direct result of Earthjustice litigation that resulted in a federal judge forcing the BLM to redo its environmental analysis for coal mining plans in Powder River Basin.
Mere weeks after this victory, the fossil industry’s allies in Congress are already lining up to overturn the decision.
Tell the Department of the Interior you support its plan to wind down coal leasing in the Powder River Basin.
The market has moved away from coal as an electricity source as states and energy-consuming companies seek out cleaner and more affordable energy sources. That’s why the coal industry is desperately using its remaining political influence to keep itself afloat — its continued existence is not warranted on economic or environmental grounds.
Though the industry has a legacy of influence in Washington, we have you. Join us in writing a letter to the Department of the Interior in support of the leasing wind down.
Keep up the fight against gas exports
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In response to mounting public pressure, the White House announced a temporary pause on approvals of all pending gas export facilities, including the Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) project proposed for the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. The Department of Energy (DOE) is reconsidering how it determines whether these LNG export projects are in the public interest.
Advocates have been raising the alarm to the federal government about how gas exports harm communities and the climate, and this move from the Biden administration shows that they are listening. This is a critical step forward to make sure DOE fully accounts for the impact of CP2 and other gas export facilities on our climate, environmental justice, and the economy.
CP2 alone could pollute up to 20 times the annual carbon emissions of the Willow drilling project in Alaska — equivalent to emissions from nearly 40 million gas-powered cars or about 47 coal-fired power plants. At this critical moment on climate, it’s clear that projects like CP2 are not in the public interest and should be denied.
Despite that, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently rubberstamped the project. Now it’s up to DOE to reject CP2’s export license and strengthen its process for reviewing these projects.
CP2’s pollution, traffic, sprawl, and visual impact would add to the harms the nine overburdened local Gulf Coast communities located near the facility already experience from nearby existing LNG terminals. These communities already bear the burden of other heavy industry and are on the frontlines of the bigger hurricanes and storms fueled by the worsening climate crisis. Approving CP2’s exports will add to environmental injustice, fuel additional climate change, and increase prices for domestic consumers.
Tell DOE it’s past time to stop greenlighting fossil fuel industry expansion and prioritize communities and pollution-free, renewable energy.
The clean energy transition should not be built on dirty mining
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We face an existential climate crisis and must move quickly to build the solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and electric vehicles that will power our clean energy transition away from fossil fuels. But this clean energy transition should not be built on dirty mining that hurts communities and the environment. It’s past time to reform our dirty mining laws for a more just and equitable clean energy future and reject false solutions that further weaken mining regulations.
Mining on public lands in the U.S. continues to be governed by the 1872 Mining Law, which fails to provide even basic protections for our shared public lands and the communities that call those lands home. More than a century of reckless mining has poisoned our air, waters, and lands — and has disproportionately impacted Indigenous communities. We must address the shortcomings of the archaic 1872 Mining Law, and we need your help with taking this to the next level.
Instead of reforming our mining laws, Congress is attempting to pass a disastrous bill that only reinforces an already broken system and makes it worse. The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act would further weaken mining laws, all under the guise of ‘climate action.’ It would allow mining companies to overtake our public lands and block them from being used for things like recreation, conservation, and clean energy—even without a valid mineral claim. We must oppose this handout to the mining industry.
We can, and must, avoid repeating the mistakes of the fossil fuel era by updating the archaic 1872 mining law and meeting the demand for critical minerals in the most sustainable way possible: by recycling, reusing, and extending the life of materials and products we already have. Research demonstrates the significant potential for recycling to offset demand for newly mined metals for electric vehicle batteries. Effectively recycling end-of-life batteries could reduce global Electric Vehicle (EV) mineral demand 55% for newly mined copper, 25% for lithium, and 35% for cobalt and nickel by 2040. While we understand some mining must occur, it must proceed in the most sustainable way possible with strong environmental and public health protections. The status quo — which has destroyed 40% of headwaters in the western U.S. — is not the answer.
We need you to urge more of our representatives to reject false solutions and oppose the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act, so our clean energy transition proceeds in a just and equitable way. Send a letter to your representatives today!
Life-saving air quality protections are under threat by polluter allies in Congress
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Everyone deserves the right to breathe clean air.
For over 50 years, the Clean Air Act has improved the lives of millions of people across the country by regulating air pollution, allowing us to breathe easier and live healthier. However, polluting industries have fought progress every step of the way, making pollution a continued public health threat for many.
In recent months, the Biden administration has made big strides in public health and environmental protection through executive agency rulemakings including setting standards that protect us from deadly air pollutants. These finalized standards would reduce toxic emissions across industries from manufacturing, to agriculture and transportation, resulting in saved lives and clearer skies.
Throughout the rulemaking process, polluting industries worked to weaken these rules, and now with the standards finalized, polluters have gone to court to challenge our life-saving air quality protections. Not only that, but polluters have also enlisted allies in Congress to use an extreme tool to weaken our clean air and we need your help to stop them.
Congress’s weapon of choice is the Congressional Review Act, a back-door tactic that allows them to erase recently finalized protections with little debate and zero public input. Now, they’re using it to go after one of the most sweeping clean air protections we have: the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter (aka PM2.5 or soot). This recently strengthened standard will save thousands of lives and avert nearly 1 million asthma attacks annually, but polluters and their allies in Congress are trying to overturn that progress.
We cannot let Congress repeal these rules and allow polluters to continue to poison our families and neighborhoods. We must demand that our elected officials show strong support for impacted communities to stop attacks on health and climate protections. Send a letter to your Congressperson now.
Vermont’s Green Mountain Forest is under threat
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The Forest Service is about to decide whether to log thousands of acres of Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest. The massive timber sale is part of a management plan called the Telephone Gap Integrated Resource Project and would impact mostly mature forests. Tell the U.S. Forest Service that you oppose this project.
At 400,000 acres, the Green Mountain National Forest features dramatic mountains, enchanting forests, and rushing rivers. It supports recreational opportunities like the Long Trail, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, cross-country skiing, and wildlife viewing, which draw millions of visitors each year. In autumn, there’s nowhere more spectacular to see the display of fall foliage as the sugar maples, beech and birch are glowing with reds, oranges and yellows.
The landscape targeted for logging includes a vast “Inventoried Roadless Area” and forests with major concentrations of mature and late-successional trees between 80 and 160 years old. Large roadless areas are rare in Vermont and New England and are especially important for biodiversity and clean water. The Green Mountain National Forest is a significant carbon sink and protects downstream communities from flooding, which is among the greatest threats to New England as the climate changes. The mature forests in the Telephone Gap project area are rapidly accumulating. Forests in New England could store 2-4 times more carbon if allowed to grow old. Logging can also exacerbate natural disasters, like the historic floods experienced by Vermont last summer.
The Telephone Gap timber sale has been called one of the worst logging projects on federal lands by the Climate Forests Campaign, a national coalition of 120 environmental groups, including Earthjustice and our local partner in Vermont, Standing Trees. It would endanger the water quality of the White River and Otter Creek, put downstream communities in greater danger of flooding, risk introducing invasive species, and destroy habitat for threatened and endangered species.
The climate, biodiversity, and the health of our communities are all at stake – please take action today by sending a letter and help us send a strong message to the US Forest Service: protect Green Mountain National Forest!
Make sure tax dollars go to hydrogen projects that are truly clean
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The fossil fuel industry champions hydrogen as a clean energy solution, but the truth is that hydrogen is most often produced from methane gas. Hydrogen production contributes more climate pollution today than the entire nation of Germany. Subsidies for dirty hydrogen projects threaten to lock in more fossil fuel production and increase climate and health-harming pollution.
The Inflation Reduction Act unleashed an unprecedented amount of money for hydrogen tax credits. Oil and gas giants and other companies with schemes for making dirty hydrogen are vying for these subsidies. Decisions that the Biden administration makes in the next few months will determine whether that money exacerbates the climate crisis or not.
This is why we were relieved that the Biden administration’s new guidance for which types of hydrogen facilities are eligible for tax credits recognizes the real impacts of producing hydrogen. The guidance is deliberate in encouraging truly clean hydrogen – but we need to make sure it stays that way.
Tell the US Treasury and Department of Energy that we need to finalize strong guidance to ensure that taxpayer dollars go to truly clean hydrogen production, not to facilities that would drive us deeper into the climate crisis.
With hundreds of billions of tax dollars on the line, the fossil fuel industry, the nuclear industry, and a host of other corporate interests are lobbying hard to weaken this guidance and make dirty hydrogen projects eligible for these subsidies. Tell the Biden administration to ensure that the tax credits are only available for truly clean hydrogen.
Defend our right to clean water
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The Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency Supreme Court ruling eviscerated the Clean Water Act and removed protections for over 118 million acres of wetlands and a staggering but yet-to-be-determined number of streams. It dealt a significant blow to water everywhere, and to an important environmental safeguard. Join us in the fight to defend our waters and preserve our ecosystems. Together, we can make a difference.
Despite the challenges posed by the Sackett decision, there is cause for hope as advocates across the country rally to defend our waters. In states like Colorado, Illinois, and New Mexico, grassroots coalitions are making strides in advancing wetland protections through legislative action and community engagement.
However, challenges persist as states like North Carolina and Indiana enact legislation that weakens water protections, and legal battles over water rights continue in places like Georgia. Moreover, industries are exploiting the Sackett ruling to pollute and destroy wetlands for profit, underscoring the urgency of our advocacy efforts.
Despite these obstacles, public support for water protection remains strong. Most of the country has a favorable opinion of the Clean Water Act, and ninety-four percent of people say that protecting the water in our nation’s lakes, streams, and rivers is important. This widespread support underscores the opportunity for progress and mobilization.
Congress, having the people’s backing, needs to address the legal ramifications of the Sackett decision, and must enact meaningful reforms to protect our waters. With unwavering commitment and grassroots advocacy, we can secure a healthier, more sustainable future for generations to come.
Urge Dept. of Natural Resources: Don’t clearcut this rare, mature WA forest!
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High above the Middle Fork Nooksack River lies a grove of one of the last remaining mature forests on the Van Zandt Dike. This rare forest contains 150 year old Douglas firs and western red cedars, some over 5 feet in diameter. In fact, some stands still contain remnant old growth trees over 300 years old! The lush forest floor is a hub for biodiversity: an understory of native plants including huckleberry, trillium, pine sap, and devil’s club. Parts of this forest border known nesting sites of marbled murrelets, an endangered species, and is home to numerous other species of wildlife like black bear and pileated woodpecker. This is the Little Lilly Forest, and it’s on the chopping block.
On August 1st, the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released the results of the Little Lilly’s State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) review process, determining there was no “significant” environmental impact in carrying out the clear cut of this sale. This means DNR is moving forward with its plan to auction off this forest on October 30th, just two months away. Without community action, this legacy forest of large hundred-year-old trees will be clearcut and converted into a tree plantation, which would be a major loss for the Middle Fork watershed and our community.
Forests like this are worth more standing than logged. Preserving mature forests provides us with many essential ecosystem services for free, like watershed regulation, steep slope stabilization, carbon storage, and wildlife habitat. There are a number of programs and funding sources that could be used to put this rare forest into conservation and provide funding to essential services like our schools, fire districts, and libraries. Contact DNR and ask that they cancel the sale—or at the very least pause the sale while state and county-level work groups study the full slate of management options available for forests like Little Lilly.
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On June 11, CCL volunteers met with 442 congressional offices for our biggest lobby day of the year! We worked to build support for the bipartisan PROVE IT Act. You can help double down on these efforts from home by calling your senators and representatives to let them know about this legislation, too.
Tell your members of Congress you support it because it:
Measures the carbon intensity of certain goods
Helps America negotiate effectively with trading partners
Builds on bipartisan momentum to act on global carbon pollution
The PROVE IT Act was passed by its Senate committee earlier this year, and on July 9, it was introduced by a bipartisan group of representatives in the House. Your calls, plus our in-person lobby meetings, will keep this bill moving forward!
Take action now by calling your members of Congress asking them to cosponsor. (If your Senator or Representative has already signed on as a cosponsor, you will be prompted with a thank you message instead!)
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What is the PROVE IT Act?
It would require the Department of Energy (DOE) to study and compare the carbon emissions of products that are produced in the United States vs. other countries. Within two years, the DOE will publish a study comparing the carbon output of U.S. goods, like aluminum, cement, crude oil, fertilizer, iron, steel and plastic, to goods made elsewhere.
Getting this information organized into a database is critical to enable America to negotiate effectively with trading partners who have carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAMs) in place.
It has been introduced by Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) as S.1863 and passed by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in January 2024. It was introduced in the House by Rep. John Curtis (R-UT-03) and Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA-50) in July 2024. Let’s encourage more members of Congress to sign on as cosponsors to keep this bill moving forward!
Defend Our National Monuments
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Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah. Gold Butte in Nevada. César E. Chávez in California. Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon. Northeast Canyons and Seamounts in the Atlantic Ocean. All these places and many more were designated as national monuments because they contain immense cultural, archaeological, and ecological value that deserve to be protected for current and future generations. These are some of our country’s most beloved, historic and culturally important places and we must urge our lawmakers to defend and protect our national monuments. Send a message to your Congressperson to defend these lands and waters from exploitation and destruction.
When areas are designated as national monuments, sacred tribal cultural sites are protected from looting, threatened species can roam free through wild lands, ocean ecosystems can be restored, and the lands and waters become off limits to the short-term, exploitative corporate gains of extractive industries.
Urge your members of Congress to safeguard our public lands and waters.
Tell Congress: Support Farm Bill Conservation Programs
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The Farm Bill is the largest bipartisan investment in the voluntary and successful conservation, restoration and management of America’s private lands. It offers a critical lifeline to farmers, ranchers, and landowners who are interested in conserving their farmlands, grasslands, wetlands, and forests at a time when we’re losing millions of acres of natural lands to development each year.
Conservation programs in the Farm Bill provide nearly $6 billion annually and result in cleaner water, decreased carbon emissions, healthier and more productive soils, enhanced wildlife habitat, rural clean energy solutions and increased flood control. Which is why the Farm Bill represents one of our best opportunities to make meaningful progress on conservation and climate this year.
As the climate crisis grows, farmers and ranchers are also facing more frequent and severe weather events that can destroy crops, grazing herds, and land. The Farm Bill supports farmers in adopting climate-smart agriculture practices that build resilient communities and strong rural economies where we need them most.
That’s why The Nature Conservancy is calling on Congress to pass a Farm Bill that supports conservation programs that help tackle the country’s climate challenges and forge a sustainable, productive future for our farmers, ranchers and foresters.
The Farm Bill is only reauthorized once every five years and the current bill expired on October 1, 2023, so with major conservation and climate gains hanging in the balance, we need you to add your name to tell Congress you’re counting on it to support vital conservation funding in the Farm Bill.
Save the "Dabbler" forest: Spotted Owl habitat in Clark County!
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We need your help to protect Clark County's mature forests! The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is trying to log the “Dabbler” timber sale, comprising 156 acres of mature forest in Clark County near Mt St. Helens. This timber sale, scheduled for auction in October, contains steep and potentially unstable slopes, streams, and remnants of old forest that have never been clear-cut.
Moreover, the site overlaps with Northern Spotted Owl (NSO) habitat, which DNR claims to conserve under their Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). The Dabbler Sale demonstrates how areas supposedly set aside for long-term deferrals and wildlife conservation, like NSO habitats, are still vulnerable to logging.
This forest has naturally regenerated from a fire in the early 1900s and is some of the only primary forest remaining in Clark County. Join us in opposing the Dabbler Sale to protect our forests and wildlife and to ensure these areas remain conserved for future generations.
DNR is accepting public comments for this sale until August 13th at 4pm. Click the "Start Writing" button to send a pre written comment.
View the DNR's environmental assessment on Dabbler here
Recover Snake and Columbia River salmon
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In late February, White House officials and representatives from the Six Sovereigns – the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation, the Nez Perce Tribe and the states of Oregon and Washington – gathered in Washington, D.C., for a ceremonial signing of the historic Columbia River Basin Agreement.
This agreement signals a monumental step forward and is the result of decades of advocacy from the four Lower Columbia River Treaty Tribes, the states of Oregon and Washington, environmental, fishing and renewable energy groups represented by Earthjustice, and supporters like you. Now it’s time to pressure Congress to act.
The federal commitments tied to the agreement include promises to support salmon restoration, expand clean energy production, and modernize other key services—including energy, transportation, recreation, and irrigation—that are currently provided by the lower Snake River dams.
But this agreement is only the beginning. In the months and years ahead, the Biden administration will need to make good on their commitments to the Six Sovereigns and take concrete action to restore salmon and plan to replace the services provided by the lower Snake River dams. Thankfully, President Biden’s budget request for the next fiscal year builds on the investments and actions outlined in the agreement by proposing more than $200 million for programs that benefit salmon across the Columbia River Basin.
Now, it is up to Congress to approve that funding. Tell your Members of Congress to support the President’s Budget Request for Columbia River salmon and help secure urgently needed funding through the FY25 appropriations process.
Protect our public lands from fossil fuels
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Through a process called the federal leasing program, the government auctions off the rights to extract natural resources on publicly owned lands or waters to private companies.
The oil and gas industry has over 26 million acres of land under lease. Over half of those acres are sitting unused — stockpiled by the industry and held in reserve, preventing them from being protected or used for other purposes.
These fossil fuel leases lock us into decades of dirty energy and climate-heating pollution: 25% of the nation’s total climate emissions come from extracting, transporting, and burning fossil fuels on public land. Oil and gas drilling on public lands results in oil spills and threatens drinking water. Reforming the federal leasing program is crucial to meaningfully address climate change.
Earthjustice takes the government to court to account for the damage caused by oil, gas, and coal development and for years has been urging the Bureau of Land Management to reform the federal oil and gas lease program. The Biden administration has finally announced a new rule that increases minimum bonding rates, requiring oil and gas companies to take more responsibility for covering the costs of well clean-up, contamination, and remediation, and making it harder for operators with poor safety track records or a pattern of violations to obtain new leases.
This is a long overdue win for communities and the environment. We welcome these reforms to oil and gas leasing rules, which are the first in decades. We still need to do more. It’s time to take a hard look at how our fossil fuel decisions will impact the climate and future generations and pursue bolder climate action.
Tell the Biden administration to align fossil-fuel decisions on public lands and waters with our commitments to tackle climate change.
Defend Cook Inlet from oil drilling
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Late last year, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) conducted a lease sale for Cook Inlet — a vibrant but sensitive ecosystem in southcentral Alaska that’s home to beluga whales, salmon, and sea otters. Despite the fossil fuel industry’s allies bending over backwards to mandate the lease sale in the Inflation Reduction Act, only one company, Hilcorp, placed a single bid on a single lease tract. Hilcorp has a terrible safety record and cannot be allowed to drill in Cook Inlet.
The tepid response to the lease sale is a relief, but this fight is far from over. In an industry full of bad actors with poor safety records, Hilcorp stands out. State and federal records show that Hilcorp has a long history of spills and other accidents in Alaska. This includes a gas leak and multiple oil spills from its existing operations in Cook Inlet’s state waters. The company has also been repeatedly cited for violating safety regulations. According to the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission, “disregard for regulatory compliance is endemic to Hilcorp’s approach to its Alaska operations.”
Giving this lease to Hilcorp would only increase the likelihood of a devastating spill in Cook Inlet. Tell the BOEM it should reject Hilcorp’s bid.
The lease sale in question was required by the Inflation Reduction Act, but BOEM now has full discretion not to issue the lease to Hilcorp. It is clear that it would not be in the public interest to issue a lease, which is located in an important feeding area for the critically endangered beluga whale.
Earthjustice and our partners are suing BOEM for its failure to assess the impacts of the lease sale adequately, including how any oil and gas produced as a result could worsen climate change. We’re going to hold the BOEM accountable for its actions in court, and we must do the same in the public arena. President Biden’s promises to act on climate are only as good as his commitment to phasing out fossil fuels, and we need your help to remind him to do the right thing. Our communities, ecosystems, and climate are relying on this administration to hasten the end of the age of fossil fuels — and that starts with not issuing a lease to Hilcorp in Cook Inlet.
Tell BOEM to reject Hilcorp’s bid and spare Cook Inlet from the effects of drilling.
Hold this dirty mine accountable
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The operator of the Bull Mountains Mine, an underground coal mine north of Billings, Montana, has engaged in habitual criminal activity, well-documented corruption, and repeated violations of health and safety standards. The New York Times just dropped a bombshell story on Signal Peak Energy, a company tied to a laundry list of criminal activities, including cocaine trafficking, firearms violations, worker safety and environmental violations, embezzlement, tax evasion, and money laundering. Tell Interior Secretary Deb Haaland of the Department of the Interior to halt Signal Peak Energy’s operations at Bull Mountains Mine!
The Bull Mountains Mine is the seventh largest underground coal mine in the United States by production, generating approximately 6 million tons of coal each year — but it aspires to ramp up its annual production and take the first-place. Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) approved an expansion of the mine in 2013 and the U.S. Office of Surface Mining approved mining of federal coal shortly after. This expansion would increase the coal mine’s footprint by 7,000 acres, allowing Signal Peak Energy to tap into 176 million additional tons of coal; an amount that — if burned — would make it the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States, according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Both decisions to approve the expansion were found to be unlawful by state regulators and federal courts, but mining operations continued without interruption.
This isn’t the only unlawful activity Signal Peak Energy is up to. The company was recently levied a criminal sentence, including a $1 million fine and three-years’ probation, after pleading guilty to violating health and safety standards. They illegally dumped toxic slurry waste and bribed one of their employees to refrain from reporting a workplace injury.
Given that Signal Peak Energy will continue to inflict material damages on our land, water, air, and climate in combination with the company’s affronts to ethical standards and local livelihoods — allowing this corrupt company to proceed with mining operations is unacceptable. Send a letter today to Secretary Haaland, urging her to halt Signal Peak Energy’s operations at Bull Mountains Mine!
Put pipelines in the past
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More than 2.6 million miles of oil and gas pipelines crisscross the United States, traversing plains, desert, forests, and mountains. They run through lakes, rivers, aquifers, and waterways, endangering the ecosystems and communities in their paths and fueling the climate crisis. The threats from pipelines may be big, but they are solvable.
With every approval of a new pipeline project, the federal government locks us into decades of rising climate pollution at a time when we cannot afford any more. The hazards associated with pipelines also deepen historical injustices, as fossil fuel infrastructure is often deliberately proposed in places where residents lack financial wealth and political influence.
And with every pipeline comes the risk of oil spills and gas leakages that can cause irreversible environmental damage. Serious pipeline failures have devastated communities and ecosystems, obliterated wildlife and plants, and contaminated the drinking water of millions of households and businesses — and they happen much more often than reported. Then, the toxic fallout of a pipeline spill can be physically and psychologically harmful to the clean-up workers and affected communities.
Earthjustice has spent decades challenging pipelines as a legal partner for communities whose right to clean air, safe drinking water, and unspoiled lands are being denied by the harmful excesses of the fossil fuel industry — and together, we are growing stronger.
Join the growing chorus of people speaking out against pipelines. Our elected leaders need to hear from all of us — starting with the Biden administration. The Biden administration took bold action on its first day in office by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline; however, the administration is yet to make the right decision to shut down the Line 5 pipeline, so we need to keep up the pressure. Call on this administration to take decisive action to stem the flow of fossil fuels and implement strong, comprehensive federal regulations for oil and gas pipelines.