FROM EARTHJUSTICE, TAKE ACTION: UPHOLD THE METHANE WASTE RULE AND PROTECT OUR HEALTH AND CLEAN AIR. 15APR18

It is clear that the Methane Waste problem can be fixed using available, low-cost technologies. Fight for the current limits that protect Americans’ health, safety, and taxpayers.

ANOTHER example of the threat the drumpf/trump-pence administration poses to the health and welfare of the American people and to the environment of the U.S. as well as the world. ryan zinke willingly seeks to neutralize BLM regulations and environmental laws to increase the profit margins of the very companies who make the BLM, it's regulations and environmental laws necessary. EarthJustice has been successful in defending the Methane Waste Prevention Rule, to tell Sec of the Interior ryan zinke to leave this rule in place as is click the link......

Weakening crucial clean air protections defends the worst actors of the oil & gas industry.

TAKE ACTION! Reject a proposal to weaken crucial clean air protections TAKE ACTION

Last month we won a major victory for the climate, clean air and taxpayers. A federal court rejected the Trump Administration’s attempt to suspend a commonsense rule requiring oil and gas operators who drill on public lands to capture their methane waste and air toxics instead of pumping them into surrounding communities. But on the same day the court issued the ruling, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke launched his third attack on this safeguard, this time proposing to scrap the rule’s protections for good. Earthjustice is still fighting to protect the rule, and we need your help again. Last month’s court decision was in part because the Bureau of Land Management did not provide for a meaningful opportunity for you—the public—to comment on suspending the rule. Tell Secretary Zinke that we need strong protections from methane waste right now. This rollback takes direct aim at the health and safety of tens of thousands of Americans living near oil and gas operations. In their communities, natural gas is leaked and vented into the air, causing smog and asthma attacks and releasing toxic air pollutants like formaldehyde and benzene. Gas flares rumble like jet engines and make the nighttime look like bright summer days. Repealing this commonsense protection is another shameless giveaway of taxpayer resources and an assault on the air and health of communities just to appease the Trump administration’s corporate fossil fuel donors. The BLM’s current Methane Waste Prevention Rule puts millions of dollars into the public coffers. When oil and gas companies leak, vent or flare publicly-owned gas on public lands, the rule requires companies to pay back the public for their wasteful practices. Without the rule in place, BLM’s own analysis shows that oil and gas companies will waste 180,000 tons of methane each year—deliberately venting, leaking, or flaring $824 million worth of publicly-owned natural gas into the air over the next decade. Methane waste is a simple problem to solve. The Waste Prevention Rule requires drillers to use proven, low-cost solutions to capture publicly-owned natural gas that otherwise would be flared, vented, or leaked into the air. Americans have fought for years to protect these vital clean air protections and we won’t back down now. Tell Secretary Zinke to keep the methane waste rule and protect our health and clean air. Sincerely,

Robin Cooley Staff Attorney TAKE ACTION

FROM EARTHJUSTICE: TAKE ACTION: Don't let polluters roll back environmental protections 29OKT17

EARTHJUSTICE continues to receive 4 stars (highest ranking) on the Charity Navigator website. Their mission statement explains what they do best. Earthjustice is a public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. We bring about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations, coalitions and communities. Established as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in 1971, Earthjustice has a legal staff of more than 50 in eight offices around the country. Earthjustice uses federal and state environmental laws to protect the environment by taking government agencies to court for failing to enforce our nation's environmental laws, and corporations for breaking them. Earthjustice does this work on behalf of hundreds of community and environmental groups, providing legal services free of charge.
Here are a few of the actions they are involved in now, click on the links and make your voice heard on these important environmental issues and if you are able make a donation (I have been a monthly donor for a few years), no amount is too small, because the Earth does need good lawyers, especially now.

“We must preserve what’s left for our survival and that of our children and grandchildren.”

Polluters are pushing hard to roll back environmental protections and take away our public lands for personal profit, but Earthjustice supporters continue to fight back, standing up for their rights and urging decision-makers to do what is best for the environment and the health of their constituents: “Please stop the pollution of our land! We want to leave a clean world for our children and grandchildren!” “The 'P' in EPA stands for protection. Protect us, EPA, that’s all you have to do.” “Please end the disruption of natural habitats and the pollution of our public lands for profit.” Here are a few opportunities to make your voice heard: Stop waste and pollution on our public landsWhen oil and gas sites are spewing toxic pollution and climate-harming methane, the solution is not to give them license to pollute more. Tell the Bureau of Land Management to enforce a commonsense safeguard that requires oil and gas companies to find and fix leaks, and to reduce venting and flaring from their operations, on public and tribal lands. TAKE ACTION Give our kids the clean ride they deserveVolkswagen was caught cheating federal emissions tests, and are now paying a $14.7 billion settlement. We’re demanding your governor use tens of millions of dollars your state will receive from the VW settlement to upgrade their aging fleet of toxic diesel school buses to zero-emissions electric buses. TAKE ACTION Ask the EPA to not repeal the Clean Power PlanScott Pruitt has begun the process of repealing the Clean Power Plan, which places first-ever limits on the huge quantities of carbon pollution emitted by our country’s electric power plants. TAKE ACTION Sincerely,

Zarah Patriana Digital Advocacy Manager