URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Fossil fuel industry drilling and fracking is threatening the Arctic and all who call it home! Take action now >> 

Polar bears are struggling to survive and are suffering some of the worst impacts of the human-driven climate crisis. Their Arctic home is melting TWICE as fast as the rest of the world, and they’re quickly being pushed closer to EXTINCTION every single day.  

Meanwhile, greedy fossil fuel corporations continue to exploit the Earth and threaten the existence of this beloved glacial animal — all for the sake of profit. When Big Oil comes charging through the Arctic, it releases harmful global-warming emissions into our atmosphere and brings in toxic chemicals and waste that contaminate sensitive polar bear habitats. The massive machinery even poses the risk of running over and crushing polar bear nursing dens or burying innocent mama bears and cubs alive under snow! 

Big Oil’s dirty pollutants and environmental destruction in the Arctic are harming polar bears, people, and the planet. We MUST demand federal action if we’re going to STOP the fossil fuel industry from DECIMATING the Arctic — so we’re urgently calling on 4,827 more activists to sign our Arctic Drilling Petition today before the 11:59 P.M. deadline. Will you speak up and add your name now while there’s still time?

Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve in the Arctic is the single largest unit of public lands in the country, spanning nearly 23 million acres! It serves as a critical habitat for migratory birds, brown bears, threatened polar bears, walruses, and more. Preserving biodiversity and protecting this valuable wildlife are essential parts of balancing our whole planet’s ecosystems. 

And near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, local tribes, like the Gwich’in people, rely on a healthy Arctic ecosystem for their way of life. Arctic drilling goes against protections listed under National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) — a law that requires federal agencies to assess the environmental effects of any proposed actions, including an evaluation of any related social and economic impacts on nearby residents, like the Indigenous communities in the Arctic. 

Endangered Southern Beaufort polar bears. Public lands like Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. Local Indigenous tribes like the Gwich’in people. The entire Arctic is under attack by the fossil fuel industry.  And without stronger protections at the federal level, money-hungry Big Oil companies will continue recklessly drilling and fracking until there’s nothing left. We’ve still go a chance to stop this though, Friend. But it’s going to take a major grassroots coalition of environmentalists like you if we’re going to stand up to the powerful fossil fuel industry. Can we count on you to take action and help us urge President Biden to STRENGTHEN protections against Arctic drilling?

Thank you for taking action,
Friends of the Earth