Current Actions http:https://www.congressweb.com/NRPE Sat, 30 May 2026 20:50:05 GMT Call on EPA and Congress to Protect our Health from Toxic Pollution and Methane http:https://www.congressweb.com/NRPE/142 <div> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0e25fc28-7fff-0329-f93f-89239d824e4a"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced landmark health protections from methane pollution and associated toxic chemicals unnecessarily released during oil and gas production. The protections would prevent wasteful methane emissions and associated toxics linked to brain and spinal cord defects in babies and cancer in adults. However, instead of faithfully putting these protections in place, the agency delayed implementation, giving industry an additional year to continue polluting without meeting the new safeguards. The EPA is now signaling that this summer it will seek to erase these safeguards entirely.&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0e25fc28-7fff-0329-f93f-89239d824e4a"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The EPA’s plan to erase methane pollution protections risks the health, safety, and future of our children, families, and communities.&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0e25fc28-7fff-0329-f93f-89239d824e4a"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join us in calling on the EPA to follow the Clean Air Act and its mission to protect human health and the environment from methane pollution and let your representatives in Congress know it’s time to prioritize the health and wellbeing of all God’s children over pollution. Send your message today!</span></span></p> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> Thu, 28 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT http:https://www.congressweb.com/NRPE/142 Support Money-Saving Clean Energy Benefits http:https://www.congressweb.com/NRPE/140 <div>Last year, Congress voted to eliminate critical benefits for households, churches, schools, and other vital community service providers to more readily choose money-saving clean energy upgrades. These cost-cutting benefits made it easier than ever to take action to defend our health and protect God’s creation with cleaner air, purer water, less carbon pollution, lower household electricity bills, and new family-sustaining jobs in our communities through clean energy upgrades and investments.<br /> &nbsp;<br /> In a time when rising electricity costs and energy demand are straining family budgets, we need to bring these benefits back. Join us in calling on policymakers to restore clean energy benefits that empower households, churches, and local communities to choose clean energy that lowers costs and defends our health.&nbsp;</div> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT http:https://www.congressweb.com/NRPE/140 Speak Out for National Parks and Public Lands http:https://www.congressweb.com/NRPE/139 <div> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2374421-7fff-0dd1-da26-f6eaaaa38481"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last spring, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced the America the Beautiful Act, a bill that builds on the success of the 2020 Great American Outdoors Act by strengthening and reauthorizing the Legacy Restoration Fund–which expired in September 2025–to national parks and public lands. As America’s national parks see record-breaking numbers of visitors from across the globe, the Legacy Restoration Fund would provide $16 billion to address critical repair needs and deferred maintenance such as crumbling roads, decaying buildings, and outdated water systems.</span></span></p> &nbsp; <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2374421-7fff-0dd1-da26-f6eaaaa38481"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To date, under the Great American Outdoors Act, the Legacy Restoration Fund has successfully addressed billions of dollars in deferred maintenance in national parks and public lands in all fifty states. But the challenge remains to address the full backlog of much-needed repairs to improve visitor safety and overall accessibility and enjoyment of our parks. By extending the Legacy Restoration Fund, the America the Beautiful Act is projected to support an additional 20,000 jobs annually and contribute $10 billion to local economies over the next five years on top of the robust economic boost of visitor tourism.</span></span></p> &nbsp; <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2374421-7fff-0dd1-da26-f6eaaaa38481"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join us in speaking out about the much-needed benefits of the America the Beautiful Act by sending a message to your policymakers below! </span></span></p> </div> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT http:https://www.congressweb.com/NRPE/139 Call on Congress and the EPA to Protect Human Health and the Environment http:https://www.congressweb.com/NRPE/125 <div>Over the past year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has weakened, delayed, or revoked dozens of pollution protections, including standards on mercury, soot, and traffic pollution along with the reconsideration of a decade-old, evidence-based conclusion that carbon dioxide, methane, and four other climate-warming pollutants endanger human health and welfare.<br /> &nbsp;<br /> These crucial protections and safeguards are the result of years of advocacy and commitment to defending the lives of our children and communities from harmful pollution and negative health outcomes including impaired brain development, low birth weight, asthma, and birth defects in newborns, as well as higher rates of dementia and cancer in adults.&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;<br /> <strong>While we have made incredible health and air quality gains in recent years, the EPA’s actions threaten to undo vital progress that has made America healthier. Our work is far from finished, and we will not rest until all God’s children are free from the burden of pollution and can reach their full God-given potential.</strong><br /> &nbsp;<br /> Join us in calling on the EPA to live up to its mission of protecting human health and the environment and urging Congress to prioritize the health and wellbeing of all God’s children over pollution. Send your message today!</div> Fri, 14 Mar 2025 04:00:00 GMT http:https://www.congressweb.com/NRPE/125