Dear NRDC Activist,

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit Indigenous communities in the United States the hardest. Just weeks ago, the Navajo Nation had the highest per capita rate of cases in the entire country.

Yet in the midst of this unprecedented global crisis, the Trump administration is heartlessly seizing the opportunity to fast-track a plan to allow more fracking and drilling in the Greater Chaco region — an area of cultural and spiritual significance for Indigenous peoples of northwestern New Mexico.

Trump's plan could add up to around 3,000 new oil and gas wells to the area, threatening the safety of the local air and water — and pumping out exactly the kind of catastrophic pollution that makes people even more susceptible to dying of coronavirus.

We're preparing to fight back with everything we've got to stop this fossil fuel land grab but we need your help: Pitch in TODAY with a $5 gift and it will DOUBLE, up to $200,000 — doing twice as much to protect Greater Chaco and other crucial public lands.

During this pandemic, and with President Trump's blessings, corporate polluters have been handed free rein to move forward with dangerous fossil fuel extraction on public lands — including those around the Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

Not only would reckless drilling in Greater Chaco poison the air for nearby communities, it would devastate lands that are spiritually important to Indigenous people. Drilling and fracking could destroy artifacts with deep cultural meaning.

There's no doubt about it: The Trump administration will stop at nothing to barrel ahead with dangerous, climate-destroying plans to drill on public and sacred lands — even if it means adding thousands of oil and gas wells that would harm the communities that live nearby and destroy lands in Greater Chaco forever. We must put a stop to this.

Your donation right now will DOUBLE in impact to help NRDC protect these sacred lands from irreversible destruction. Give $5 now to help us hit our $200,000 goal by July 31.

This is the moment we all need to come together. When we fight, we win.

Sincerely,

Alison Kelly
Senior Attorney, Lands Division, NRDC