Earthjustice: TAKE ACTION: Don't lose hope. Keep fighting

Today marks Earthjustice’s 46th anniversary. Throughout the years, Earthjustice has worked—through strong partnerships with hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of supporters like you—to enforce and strengthen our nation’s environmental laws and protections. Together, we’ve made tremendous progress toward fulfilling the promise of our communities as safe, healthy places to live and work, and toward safeguarding our irreplaceable natural world.

But in just the last few months we’ve seen an onslaught of attempts to roll back those years of progress. With the stroke of a pen, protections for our health and the environment have been put at risk—and this anti-environment administration shows no signs of slowing down.

Neither are we. And neither should you.

Speaking out has never been so important. Let’s continue to raise our voices and keep the momentum going in the right direction.

Get lead out of our drinking water  Lead is a potent neurotoxic chemical for which there is NO safe level of human exposure. The Environmental Protection Agency is updating its “fixtures rule,” which governs the amount of lead that manufacturers can use in pipes, faucets and various products that you’re likely to have in your home—and it’s taking public comments through April 17. TAKE ACTION Ban dangerous chemicals lurking on store shelvesIf you’ve ever used a can of paint stripper, you know it smells toxic. But did you know that even short-term exposure could be deadly? We need the EPA to ban dangerous chemicals from paint and coating-removal products. TAKE ACTION

This toxic pesticide is poisoning our food Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used on food crops, can cause irreparable damage children’s developing brains. EPA refuses to ban it. Urge your elected officials to hold EPA accountable and end all uses of chlorpyrifos.