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Dear NRDC Activist,
Over 275,000!
That's how many comments activists like you sent to the Department of Interior to support the strongest possible protections for "Special Areas" in the Western Arctic Reserve in northern Alaska.
If we get these strong Arctic protections over the finish line, they will help greatly to protect this sensitive landscape, its unique Arctic wildlife, the region's Indigenous communities, and our climate from destructive and dirty fossil fuel development!
On behalf of all of us at NRDC, thank you for making your voice heard.
But the fight is not over. Fossil fuel giant ConocoPhillips is committed to drilling in the Arctic and intends to continue doing so. Furthermore, they are suing the Biden administration to block these vital protections for the Western Arctic Reserve.
We need to ratchet up public pressure on ConocoPhillips to cancel operations that will industrialize the Western Arctic with climate-busting oil and gas drilling.
Sign our petition demanding that ConocoPhillips drop its lawsuit and stop destroying the Western Arctic.
ConocoPhillips is creating a hub for fossil fuel development in the Western Arctic, with possible plans to dramatically expand their oil and gas drilling.
Their drilling could spoil pristine wildlands, devastate habitat for polar bears, caribou, and rare migratory birds, and threaten the health of the region's Indigenous communities.
ConocoPhillips just sees millions of acres of land to turn into oil and gas drilling profits.
Drilling will add hundreds of millions of metric tons of carbon pollution to our atmosphere. These horrifying emissions will accelerate the climate crisis, resulting in more harm to communities already in distress from worsening floods, droughts, wildfires, and storms. And scientists know that the Arctic is already warming four times faster than the rest of the world.
The Western Arctic needs protections now more than ever — ConocoPhillips must drop its lawsuit. And NRDC is ready to take on ConocoPhillips in court.
Represented by our friends at Earthjustice, NRDC will defend the Department of Interior's rule to support the strongest possible protections for "Special Areas." We are committed to ensuring that the Department of Interior exercises its full authority to protect the treasured places that are home to abundant and unique species and ecosystems that thrive there.
We must overwhelm ConocoPhillips with letters of opposition to their Arctic drilling. Send your message now.
Sincerely,
Bobby McEnaney
Director, Land Conservation, Nature, NRDC
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