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Dear NRDC Action Fund Activist,
The fossil fuel industry, including oil giant ConocoPhillips, and their MAGA allies in Congress are relentlessly trying to exploit the Arctic — risking irreparable devastation in a region that is experiencing climate change four times faster than the rest of the planet.
The House of Representatives is poised to vote this week on a destructive bill that would reverse protections for hundreds of millions of acres in the Arctic, on land and sea.
We can't let this bill pass.
Urge your representative to vote NO on H.R. 6285 and reject any other attempts to drill in the Arctic.
If passed, this dangerous bill would:
- Mandate the reissue of seven illegal Trump administration oil leases
- Roll back the protections granted to 13 million acres in Alaska's pristine Arctic Reserve by the Biden administration just weeks ago
- Eliminate existing protections for 125 million acres in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
- Remove protections for the Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, an ecosystem that supports one the largest seasonal marine mammal migrations in the world
- Reverse several critical actions taken by the Biden administration to protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Prioritizing communities and protecting imperiled wildlife over drilling in the Arctic is imperative to reducing climate-busting carbon pollution to the levels we need to avert climate catastrophe. This bill puts fossil fuel profits above everything else — and we can't afford to let it pass.
We're closer than ever to the clean energy future we need to stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis. President Biden's 2022 climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, has made unprecedented investments in our clean energy economy, and the administration recently issued groundbreaking standards to slash pollution from the two biggest sources, transportation and power plants.
We must do everything we can to capitalize on this momentum — not let dangerous legislation from Big Oil extremists in Congress drag us backwards.
We have to stop this bill in its tracks. Please, will you send your letter to your representative today?
Thank you for fighting for the Arctic, its communities and wildlife, and our climate future.
Sincerely,
Katie Hobbs
Advisor, NRDC Action Fund
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