YOUR RESPONSE NEEDED, Friend: Senate Republicans just voted to revoke critical protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Renew your LCV membership for just $5 today to help power our response >>

DEVELOPING… Senate Republicans have voted 49-45 to revoke a land management plan for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s fragile Coastal Plain, allowing every single acre of the area to be considered for fossil fuel exploitation.

With this vote, the Senate just dismantled critical safeguards and could allow for oil and gas drilling in one of the most ecologically sensitive places on Earth.

The Coastal Plain is the heartbeat of the Arctic Refuge. Located on the traditional homelands of the Iñupiaq and Gwichʼin peoples, the area is home to denning polar bears, 200 species of migratory birds, and the Porcupine Caribou herd, which is an essential and interconnected part of Iñupiaq and Gwichʼin life. This vote puts all of it at risk.

We cannot lose this irreplaceable Coastal Plain to Big Oil. We need every LCV member with us to win. Friend, will you renew your membership for just $5 today to help us defend the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and ALL of our public lands from Trump’s dirty energy agenda?

We’ve defended the Arctic before — and we can stop drilling, if we are united.

Drilling in the Arctic is a handout to oil companies and is unpopular with most Americans.

This means that the more pressure we can apply — and the more the public is aware of the damage being done — the better chance we have to stop Trump’s plans to exploit it. We’re already starting to see some Republican lawmakers back off from supporting his policies.

If we can keep this up, there's a real chance we can delay drilling operations until protections are put in place. But to pull that off, it's going to take all of us.

We rely on supporters like you to power this work. From pushing federal agencies to restore and strengthen protections, to rallying nationwide grassroots pressure, to holding every lawmaker who voted for this accountable, LCV is committed to stopping new drilling before it starts. Please, renew your membership today to help defend the Arctic and keep our nation’s wildlife refuges from being treated like oil fields, $5 is all it takes >>

The Arctic has endured decades of political attacks. It has survived because people like you refuse to let oil companies turn this region, essential for our shared human, animal, and planetary well-being, into another extraction zone. We need that same resolve now.

Sincerely,

Matthew Davis
Vice President of Federal Policy
League of Conservation Voters