Dear Friend,

There are some things that we simply cannot let happen. Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of them.

It's America's largest, most remote wildlife refuge. It's home to polar bears, caribou, walrus, arctic wolves, foxes, moose and birds from all 50 states.

Oil companies need to keep their hands off this place. It's too special, ecologically important and scared to ruin.

Tell Chevron: Don't drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Chevron is the second-largest oil company in the world and has shown a strong interest in drilling in the refuge.1,2

But with your help, we can stop it from desecrating a national treasure.

Chevron and others now have a chance to set up industrial oil operations in this wildlife refuge because the Trump administration has recently finalized a plan to open the refuge's coastal plain to drilling.

Add your name to our petition to Chevron, telling it not to drill in the Arctic Refuge.

Often called "America's last great wilderness," the refuge is larger than West Virginia and features no roads, marked trails or campgrounds.3

Loud, dirty drilling operations pose huge risks to the survival of polar bears. Bear experts tell us that mothers and cubs may be forced to abandon their dens when drilling occurs nearby, exposing baby polar bears to the harsh Arctic winter they are not yet ready to handle.4

And the refuge provides a calving ground for the 200,000-strong Porcupine caribou herd, which the indigenous Gwich'in people have depended on as a central part of their way of life for thousands of years.5

The Arctic Refuge must stay wild, and oil companies need to keep their hands off.

Tell Chevron that a home to polar bears and caribou is not a place to drill.

Thank you,

The team at Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center

1. Timothy Egan, "The Great Alaska Debate," The New York Times, August 4, 1991.
2. Nathaniel Herz, "Opening the Arctic Refuge brought Alaska's largest Native corporation $22.5 million from BP and Chevron," Alaska Public Media, January 8, 2020.
3. Christopher Solomon, "Exploring a Timeless Wilderness, Before the Drilling Begins," The New York Times, September 9, 2019.
4. Henry Fountain and Steve Eder, "Drilling in the Arctic: Questions for a Polar Bear Expert," The New York Times, December 3, 2018.
5. Elizabeth Harbell, "In Arctic Village, Gwich'in leaders say the fight to stop drilling in the Arctic Refuge isn't over," Alaska Public Media, July 2, 2019.

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