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Hi John,
Federal agencies sold out polar bears and some of the planet's rarest whales by greenlighting a massive fossil fuel project in Alaska without properly bothering to consider the risks to these endangered species.
So we just went to court to stop it.
Please help with a gift now to the Saving Life on Earth Fund. Today is your last chance to have your gift matched dollar for dollar.
The Alaska LNG project includes an 807-mile pipeline bisecting most of the state of Alaska, as well as a marine terminal and other facilities.
The climate costs alone would be staggering: The burning of more than 50 million tons of carbon-dioxide-equivalent emissions annually — about the same impact as 13 coal-fired power plants.
This would be a disaster for the planet and the Arctic, which is already warming four times faster than the rest of the planet.
It would also push endangered species to the brink.
Cook Inlet beluga whales have declined by 70% since 1970 and are critically imperiled.
It's even more dire for eastern North Pacific right whales, who range from the Bering Sea to Baja California. With few reproducing females, the population is at extreme risk of imminent extinction. As few as 30 remain.
And because of melting sea ice, polar bears are suffering. They're getting thinner because they have to swim farther and farther to find food and places to rest.
It's maddening that federal agencies charged with protecting wildlife — especially endangered species — would rubber-stamp a project to benefit fossil fuel interests when so much is riding on protecting habitat and restoring the climate.
Every day our team of lawyers, scientists, and activists fight to protect wildlife — and to force officials to stand up to industry and safeguard whales, polar bears and all the other species that comprise life on Earth.
It takes constant vigilance and resolve, but we'll never stop. Our love for the wild keeps us going, but we need you with us.
Please give today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund. Gifts made by midnight will be doubled.
For the wild,
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