The Trump administration and the Republican majority in Congress do not have a mandate for poisoned air and water, more cancer and asthma, or spiraling climate chaos. People expect their elected leaders to deliver on the basics of health and safety.
Earthjustice will be there to hold President Trump and members of Congress accountable. We are the nation’s leading environmental law organization. For more than 50 years, we’ve used our legal and policy expertise to build better, lasting environmental protections and defend those protections in court.
Republicans hold a fragile and narrow governing majority. In the House of Representatives, they are beginning a new Congress with an even smaller edge than they had before the election. Because President Biden appointed more than 230 federal judges, the Trump administration will have a harder time pushing drastic changes through the nation’s courts.
That isn’t to say fighting Trump’s agenda will be easy.
President Trump has made the goals for his second term clear. He will try to accelerate the drilling that will deepen our country’s dependence on fossil fuels — and the world’s descent into a more dangerous climate reality. He’ll try to gut the regulations that protect clean air and water and keep toxic chemicals out of our bodies. And he’ll try to appoint more ideological judges that will further politicize our courts and erode government protections that we all depend on.
Decades of work made the gains of the last four years possible. That hard-earned progress is deeply rooted and popular. No matter what comes, we won’t cede our ground.
