Eco Actions

This Earth Month, let’s show what’s possible when we act with care, community, and purpose. People and planet are resilient together, and your actions help make that resilience real. Earth Month Ecochallenge is a 30-day program focused on environmental and social engagement. During this month, you're invited to select actions that resonate with your values, committing to them for 30 days to foster and reinforce positive habits. Each action you complete earns points and generates real-world impact. Your efforts, combined with those of your team, contribute to a significant collective difference. More info and signup HERE.

We call on Congress to resist the Trump’s attempted unilateral withdrawal from the United Nations climate change treaty. The Constitution assigns to the President the singular duty to “take care that the laws are faithfully executed.” It provides, as well, that constitutional provisions, federal statutes, and Senate-approved treaties comprise the Supreme Law of the Land. Accordingly, the President should not unilaterally withdraw the nation from the Senate-approved United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). His recent (Feb. 27) attempt to do just that must be challenged. Because withdrawal is not effective until 12 months have passed, we still have time to reverse direction. Virtually every nation on the planet is a Party to the UNFCCC and, to date, no nation, once a party, has ever withdrawn from it. Act HERE.

Many California solar owners could face higher property taxes in 2027 if state lawmakers don't act quickly. A higher property tax could be triggered if you: add a battery to your existing system, add more solar panels on your roof, or install a new rooftop solar system. Please tell your state legislators to vote YES on AB 2389, which would Stop the Solar Property Tax. For 40 years, the state Legislature has ensured that your property taxes won’t go up if you put solar on your roof or a battery in your garage. However, that protection will expire by the end of the year. Speak Out HERE.

Legislation is moving forward in Congress that would seriously undermine the Endangered Species Act. The "ESA Amendments Act" (HR 1897), sponsored by Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR), would rewrite key portions of the bedrock environmental law, decreasing protections for threatened and endangered wildlife. Why is this happening? The Endangered Species Act is one of the most widely supported environmental laws in America. But despite that, Trump and his allies in Congress want to undermine it or get rid of it completely. They want to hand over our public lands to billionaire CEOs, private developers, and data centers at the expense of sensitive wildlife habitat. Speak up HERE.

In 1994 the Northwest Forest Plan was created to protect much of the region's last remaining old-growth, as well as to set aside millions of acres to help previously clearcut forests recover. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management abandoned the plan in 2016 and began to log mature and old-growth forests aggressively under the first Trump administration. Now, still not satisfied, the second Trump administration has proposed a new plan to more than quadruple the amount of logging to 2.5 million acres of public land in western Oregon. Tell the BLM to scrap this logging plan HERE.

Toxic chemicals show up almost everywhere: from our food and clothing, to inside our homes and bodies. Exposure to certain common chemicals is tied to rising rates of cancer, infertility, and harm to children. We already don’t have enough protection from toxic chemicals. If chemical lobbyists get their way, it will be even easier for corporations to get new forever chemicals or phthalates on the market and into our bodies and harder to get legacy toxic chemicals like asbestos off the market. Despite promises from politicians to “Make America Healthy Again,” right now there is a bill moving through Congress rthat is designed by the chemical industry to gut our main chemical safety law: the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Write HERE to your members of Congress today.

California State Parks: Release Prop 4 Funding Now!

In November 2024, California voters overwhelmingly passed a historic climate bond — Proposition 4 (Prop 4). Prop 4 directed the state to spend $10 billion on projects across California, from protecting water supplies and conserving land to clean energy, park access, and natural disaster response like wildfire recovery. Unfortunately, regulatory hurdles are slowing down the process of getting these funds out the door to get many urgent projects started. That's why a large coalition of conservation organizations are urging prompt passage of AB 35, new legislation to clear regulatory hurdles and get Prop. 4 funding where it is needed the most. Contact Senate President Pro Tem Monique Limón HERE to ask for her help in passing AB 35 ASAP.

Muppet, an endangered red wolf, was struck and killed by a vehicle as he tried to cross the highway and reunite with his pack. There are more than 1 million vehicle collisions with large animals like Muppet in the U.S. each year, but it doesn't have to be this way. Instead of forcing wildlife to risk their lives by crossing busy roads and highways, wildlife crossings help animals safely get to where they need to go. When placed in areas of known wildlife movement, crossings with fencing to guide the animal to cross in the right spot have reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by up to 97%. Tell your U.S. House representative to keep building wildlife crossings. Read ON.

Some really great news! The Fighting Fibers Act (HR 4694/S 2435) has been introduced in Washington mandating all new washing machines have built-in microfiber filters by 2030. With this implementation, microfiber emissions can be reduced up to 90% providing a way to wash our clothes without adding to microplastic pollution. Microfibers from synthetic clothing are microplastics. Microfibers are found in every part of our bodies - lungs, hearts, intestines, brains, and bloodstreams. Further, microfibers are coated with highly toxic chemicals designed not to wash off. Microfibers from our washing machines (up to 18 million can be released in a single wash) flow into wastewater treatment plants where millions escape into the ocean every day. Take ACTION.

The Trump administration just repealed the “endangerment finding” — the EPA’s long-standing scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare — despite the devastating impacts of climate change we can see with our own eyes. This repeal has no basis in law, science, or reality. The Administration is officially denying both settled science and the government’s legal obligation to address climate change. The decision comes while Americans are facing increasing and intensifying wildfires, hurricanes, and other climate-change fueled disasters. The Administration also repealed carbon pollution standards for vehicles. Transportation emissions are the top contributor to climate change in the U.S. Reach your Representative HERE.

NOAA is about to decide whether or not to move towards deep sea mining that could demolish this area. Sitting on the seafloor are thousands of potato-sized nodules made of metals that act as anchors for sensitive sea life. Now mining companies want to vacuum up those nodules, which could kill everything that lives on them. And it's not just life on the seafloor that's in danger. The clicks of dolphins and songs of whales could be drowned out by underwater mining equipment. The area where The Metals Company wants to take the first steps towards deep sea mining is home to whales and dolphins. Extremely sensitive to noise, endangered sperm whales wouldn't be able to communicate with each other with the deafening sounds of underwater mining happening 24 hours a day. Take ACTION.

PFAS chemicals — otherwise known as “forever” chemicals, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are disturbingly persistent. They can build up in our bodies, contaminate water sources, and break down into a smaller chemical called trifluoracetic acid — which is considered one of the world's most pervasive water pollutants and threatens aquatic and semiaquatic life, including endangered Houston toads. Despite these risks the Trump administration has approved multiple PFAS-containing pesticides. These forever pesticides will treat massive swaths of food crops, resulting in polluted water and public health risks that last for generations. Now led by former chemical industry lobbyists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is trying to rapidly approve more PFAS pesticides — all while concealing their unacceptable harms. Tell the EPA loud and clear: Stop approving forever pesticides. Act HERE.

In recent years, an unusually high number of mortality events and an elevated number of whale strandings have occurred. Whales are extremely sensitive to human activity in our ocean, especially the increase in global shipping and vessel traffic along United States coasts, which impacts whale calving grounds, feeding areas and migration routes. Encounters between whales and ships can lead — and have led — to fatal injuries. The Whale CHARTS Act would reduce ship strikes by amending the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) near-real-time monitoring and mitigation program for large cetaceans. In turn, our understanding of the location and extent of baleen and sperm whale migration routes as well as feeding, mating and calving grounds would be greatly improved. Urge Congress to support this Act HERE.

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been a vital lifeline of defense shielding these helpless creatures from outside forces threatening their survival. Without it, thousands of vulnerable animals, plants, and fish would lose critical safeguards. But (now ),,, the GOP has introduced the ESA Amendments Act of 2025 (HR 1897), a direct attack on the ESA that could make it harder to list new species and attempts to fast-track the removal of existing protections. The bill also seeks to undermine the science-based decision-making process that is at the core of the ESA – eliminating the checks and balances that are designed to ensure political agendas do not interfere with the best interests of threatened and endangered wildlife or habitats. Take Action HERE.

During the last 60-day public comment period, more than 270,000 people spoke out against offshore drilling, sending a powerful message before comments closed on January 23rd. But, instead of reviewing and acting on those comments, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has opened a new 30-day comment period, allowing oil and gas companies to nominate potential drilling sites along the Central and Southern California coast. These nominated areas include waters off Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay, and beyond. The public can still push to exclude these areas from future leasing—but time is limited. We urge you to submit a public comment opposing offshore drilling, focusing on the following key issues: Use conflicts (fishing, boating, recreation, and research); Sensitive areas and protected habitats; Coastal economies and community impacts; Environmental and biological factors; Cultural and archaeological sites. Submit COMMENT

House Republicans are preparing to dismantle our nation's critical chemical safety law. Their proposal would gut key provisions in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a move that would undermine an overwhelmingly popular law protecting Americans from the most dangerous chemicals. These rollbacks would expose our most vulnerable, including children, pregnant women and industrial workers to potentially dangerous chemicals. Take ACTION.

It's alarming enough that scientists are observing an increase in the number of "superbugs" -- bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics, and cost 35,000 Americans their lives every year. What's worse, our current use of antibiotics in agriculture is making the problem worse. Pesticides containing antibiotics important to human medicine are sprayed widely on fields. It's time to put a stop to this dangerous practice and protect medically important antibiotics for use in human medicine. Tell the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the use of antibiotic pesticides in agriculture today. Act HERE.

A remote, pristine wilderness of sprawling lakes and hiking trails, where fox pups play on the shore and bald eagles perch in trees that have been standing tall for hundreds of years -- can you picture a copper mine in a place like this? That's exactly what could happen if this proposal in Congress goes through, opening one of our nation's most visited wildernesses to toxic mining.1 And it could come to a vote in the U.S. House any day now. We need your voice: Send a message to your U.S. representative urging them not to strip back protections for the Boundary Waters. Take ACTION.

The Environmental Protection Agency is working to nix federal clean-car standards that protect the air we breathe and help save money at the gas pump. A rollback proposal could come any day now — and will be a blatant giveaway to Big Oil and auto executives. While industry stakeholders rake in profits, Trump's proposal will let more cars burn more gas, resulting in more oil use, higher gas costs, and worse air pollution that harms our health and climate. We need to keep the EPA's current standards in place to deliver cleaner cars that improve our quality of life and help protect the climate that wildlife needs to thrive. Take ACTION.

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum is reportedly considering reversing protections for Chaco Canyon — a move that could reopen this sacred, irreplaceable landscape to oil, gas, and other extractive industries. Chaco Canyon is not expendable land. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a center of Indigenous culture and history, and one of the most significant archaeological landscapes in North America. For thousands of years, Pueblo, Hopi, Navajo, and other Tribal Nations have maintained deep cultural, spiritual, and ancestral connections to this place. Tell Secretary of Interior Burgum to preserve Chaco Canyon's sacred glory. Act HERE.

Fifteen years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon — the most destructive oil spill in U.S. history — the same company is asking the federal government to approve a new, massive offshore drilling project in the Gulf. The proposed project, called Kaskida, would be BP’s first completely new oilfield in the Gulf since Deepwater Horizon.

Building more solar energy projects across the country can help meet rising demand, cut emissions, and keep costs down for working families. But instead, The Trump Administration’s Department of Interior (DOI) has frozen major solar energy projects on public and private lands. Meanwhile, the Administration has moved to reverse restrictions on dangerous fossil fuel projects on federal lands. Solar is the cheapest form of new energy across the US. Plus, it’s the fastest to build. Urge Congress to press Department of Interior Secretary Burgum to cut the red tape stopping new solar projects. Take action HERE

We shouldn't be able to get toxic, bee-killing chemicals shipped to our doorstep at the push of a button. Neonic pesticides are contributing to bee-die offs that put our entire food system at risk. Not to mention: They've also been linked to neurological issues in humans. But despite all the risks, neonic pesticides are still sold on Amazon in most states. Amazon can protect pollinators, our health and the planet by getting these toxic pesticides off their virtual shelves. Tell Amazon: Stop selling bee-killing neonics HERE.

Earlier this year, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) pushed a proposed provision that would have put more than 250 million acres of public land on the chopping block and for sale, with a mandated sale of up to 2-3 million acres within five years. With your help, the provision was successfully thrown out. But now Senator Lee is back with an even more dangerous amendment...Lee Amendment #3972 would remove protections in the Interior appropriations bill that require the Department of the Interior to maintain our national parks. If it passes, it opens the door to selling off, transferring or giving away America’s most treasured public lands - including our national parks. Contact your Senator HERE.

The Forest Service plans to rescind the Roadless Rule, which protects more than 45 million acres of wild forest from logging and mining. These forests provide clean water, shelter hundreds of threatened and endangered species and are the sites of treasured memories for millions of Americans — losing them to logging and mining would be a travesty. Congress can permanently protect all roadless forests by passing the Roadless Area Conservation Act. Tell your U.S. House representative to protect millions of acres of wild forest HERE.

Former Rep. Steve Pearce of New Mexico spent his congressional career attacking public lands and endangered species. Now President Donald Trump has picked him to lead the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, where Pearce would be in charge of 245 million acres of public lands — all at extreme risk of privatization and annihilation. Pearce has long called for shrinking and selling off public lands to private and corporate interests. If he’s confirmed, he’ll greenlight extractive industry at the expense of clean water, wildlife, and public enjoyment across some of the most cherished landscapes in the U.S. West. He once said, these wolves — which will stalk for weeks and weeks and weeks at a time around local homes — it’s a matter of time until a wolf catches one of these children.” There have been ZERO documented cases of wolves attacking humans in New Mexico. Take ACTION.

We rely on EPA to enforce strict reporting requirements to ensure that we're protected from 'forever chemicals' like PFAS. But a new plan from the Trump EPA may put that critical transparency at risk. The agency's plan would gut reporting requirements giving nearly all companies the opportunity to skirt disclosing critical PFAS information, making it harder for states and regulators to protect us. Speak out before the Dec 29 deadline. Act HERE.

The Surfrider Foundation strongly objects to the federal administration’s proposed 5-Year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil & Gas Leasing Program for 2026 - 2031. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s dangerous proposal would open up California, the Gulf of Mexico, including the previously protected waters off of Florida, and Alaska, including the pristine High Arctic, where drilling has never been attempted before because of the hazards — putting coastal ecosystems, communities, and businesses in these areas at serious risk. Surfrider calls on elected officials and members of the public to register official opposition during the current public comment period, which began on November 24. Act HERE.