Contact Your Member of Congress

*** Note: Please prioritize calls to members of Congress from your home district and state ***

Please call your Senators and Congressional representatives today and tell them to oppose any congressional or executive action that would in any way weaken or undermine meaningful public input or environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

• Tell them who you are and where you’re from (including your zip code)
• Urge them to protect the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA).
• Insist that the next infrastructure package must not include any provisions that would attack, weaken or waive legal protections for local communities.
• NEPA is the foundation of reasonable, balanced and transparent decisions about how taxpayer dollars are spent that impact our health, our communities, and our environment.
• Restate your request: oppose any legislation that would undermine NEPA

Example Phone Call:

“My name is [YOUR NAME] and I am a resident of [CITY AND STATE].

I am calling today because I am concerned about attacks on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) protections, which requires the federal government to thoroughly review the environmental impacts of projects before approving them. NEPA also helps the federal government make better-informed decisions and is a powerful tool that prevents taxpayer money from being wasted.

The environmental review process ensures that the government actions remain transparent and take into account genuine concerns voiced by the public. The only people that benefit from limiting environmental review and weakening NEPA are special interests and companies that want to ram forward destructive projects with as little scrutiny as possible.

Therefore, I am asking you to vote against any bills that would weaken or in any way undermine the federal government’s environmental review process, such as the “Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017” (H.R. 2936). Furthermore, in wake of Hurricanes Irma, Harvey, and Maria, I urge you to support building new infrastructure only after adequate environmental reviews have been conducted. Rebuilding means making sure that new offices and homes can survive the next big hurricane or flood.

Thank you for taking my call.”