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There are just days left for you to make your voice heard in defense of vital Arctic protections — and we need you now more than ever.

As we feared, ConocoPhillips is taking steps to expand their hub for fossil fuel development in America’s Arctic.

The company recently announced they will be filing exploration applications with federal regulators to drill for even more oil near their destructive Willow project. That means four new test wells — trial-run mini Willow projects — and seismic studies that shatter fragile Arctic wildlands.

In addition, the State of Alaska’s public corporation is looking to contract for invasive oil and gas seismic exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which will have devastating and even deadly impacts on wildlife like beluga whales and caribou that depend on the Refuge.

All this against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s latest attack on our Arctic public lands: their proposal to strip crucial protections for 13 million acres in Alaska’s Western Arctic, opening the country’s largest intact landscape to dangerous oil and gas drilling.

Will you make your voice heard in opposition to this disastrous Arctic drilling plan?

ConocoPhillips and other corporations are aggressively making these moves before the Trump administration has even repealed these vital Arctic protections. It’s unconscionable, and we can’t let it stand. Act NOW before it’s too late.

Sincerely,

Bobby McEnaney
Director, Land Conservation, Nature Program, NRDC

The Trump administration attempts to reopen 13 million acres for Arctic drilling

The administration is trying to get rid of vital protections for Alaska’s Western Arctic — all as a massive public lands giveaway to Big Oil billionaires.

Nearly 150,000 supporters like you helped secure these protections last year. We will not let them go without a fight. Submit your public comment now!

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Dear NRDC Activist,

The Trump administration just unleashed yet another assault on Arctic wildlands: They proposed stripping vital protections for 13 million acres in Alaska's Western Arctic, opening the nation's largest intact landscape to reckless oil and gas operations.

These are the same safeguards that nearly 150,000 NRDC supporters like you helped win last year. We cannot let these crucial protections go without a fight.

The administration is seeking public comments on their proposal. We must flood them with messages opposing climate-busting drilling in the Western Arctic.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has referred to the nation's public lands as assets on "America's balance sheet." And his agency is attempting to privatize our public lands to fast-track oil, gas, and other destructive corporate projects 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.

This is just the latest in a massive public lands giveaway to oil giants like ConocoPhillips, which has been creating a hub for fossil fuel development in the Arctic.

Meanwhile, our Arctic ecosystem and the life it supports pay the price. Grizzly and polar bears, caribou, rare birds, and other wildlife species rely on Western Arctic lands for survival.

More oil drilling in the Arctic will only lock us into more and more fossil fuel addiction in a region that is warming more than four times faster than the rest of the world — stopping drilling here is a key step to avert climate catastrophe.

We must do everything in our power to stop the administration from giving corporations free rein to exploit the Arctic, causing irreparable destruction. Submit your public comment now.

NRDC's legal team is considering every one of our options to fight back against threats in the Arctic. NRDC's lawsuit challenging the first Trump administration's unlawful attempt to open the Arctic Refuge to drilling is still in the courts, and our affiliated 501(c)(4) organization the NRDC Action Fund is fighting in Congress to block legislative attacks on fundamental Arctic protections.

In the meantime, we need your help to mobilize a massive public outcry in defense of the Western Arctic.

We cannot stay silent now. Our public lands are for all of us, not for corporate polluters.

Tell the administration that the Western Arctic is not for sale.

Sincerely,

Bobby McEnaney
Director, Land Conservation, Nature Program, NRDC

Photo: Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management

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