Dear NRDC Action Fund Activist,

We recently saw major developments in our fight to save Alaska’s Arctic.

Congress has a critical role to play to stop dangerous attacks on the Arctic and to forever protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain — but we need as many people as possible to send them a message loud and clear.

Your members of Congress need to hear from YOU: Urge them to protect the Arctic and other wildlands from dirty oil and gas drilling.

These threats are on top of President Trump’s draft budget released last week that further supports fossil fuel billionaires and opens a new front in the worst White House assault ever on the environment and public health — not to mention the president’s executive order and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s orders that are pushing to expedite drilling under the guise of a “National Energy Emergency.”

But the U.S. is not in an energy emergency — we’re the world’s leading producer of oil and gas. These actions only benefit corporate polluters at the expense of the public, local Indigenous communities, and our shared lands and waters.

The Arctic is teeming with wildlife — caribou, muskox, wolves, threatened polar bears, and soon, it will be the breeding ground for millions of birds that migrate to the Arctic each year from every continent and all 50 states.

Drilling here would bring gigantic thumper trucks that would permanently harm the sensitive Arctic permafrost. Roads, pipelines, and pumpjacks would threaten denning polar bears, disrupt caribou and bird migration, and cause irreparable damage to the cultural traditions and very survival of Indigenous communities that have thrived here for millennia.

Life in the Arctic is at risk — the Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet, and it is no place for climate-busting drilling.

We must show Congress that we stand united in defense of the Arctic. We will not stop fighting for its permanent protection, no matter who is in office.

Together we can protect the Arctic. For decades, our sister organization NRDC and our partners have fought in and out of court for Arctic protections. NRDC’s lawsuit from 2020 challenging the first Trump administration’s unlawful attempt to open the Arctic Refuge to drilling is still in the courts. And just months ago, NRDC Action Fund and NRDC supporters submitted nearly 150,000 public comments to protect 13 million acres in the Western Arctic Reserve.

As NRDC Action Fund experts fan out on Capitol Hill to fight to block threats to the Arctic, we’re counting on supporters like you to help mobilize massive public support for Arctic protection that is too loud for Congress to ignore.

Tell your members of Congress to protect the Arctic and our public lands NOW.

Sincerely,

Bobby McEnaney
Senior Advisor, NRDC Action Fund