NRDC Supporter, time is running out.

In one week, the Trump administration will hold the first-ever lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge when they'll try to hand over huge swaths of this pristine wildlife sanctuary to oil giants like Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and others.

NRDC is in court right now fighting to block this devastating lease sale — but we need your support now more than ever.

If you donate today to help save the Arctic Refuge and protect our environment on all fronts, your gift will be TRIPLE MATCHED, up to our $500,000 goal. Even $5 helps enormously.

Auctioning off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is an egregious intrusion into the sacred lands of the Gwich'in and the Indigenous Peoples who stand with them. And it's a shameless attack on our climate, our shared wildlands, and threatened Arctic wildlife.

More drilling in the Arctic — where temperatures are already rising at three times the rate of the rest of the planet — will exacerbate our climate crisis by furthering our addiction to fossil fuels and compounding the carbon pollution driving climate change.

The Trump administration's corporate allies will be the only winners. The rest of us, especially the Indigenous communities for whom this land is critical, will pay the price forever.

At NRDC, we're doing everything in our power to stop the Trump administration's drilling scheme while simultaneously mobilizing to press the Biden-Harris administration on day one to secure permanent protections for the Arctic Refuge once and for all. But this work takes significant resources and there are long, hard days ahead.

Please take advantage of this limited time opportunity to have your gift TRIPLE MATCHED to power our critical fight to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: The Arctic Refuge is unlike any other place on earth. It's truly special.

Losing this land to industrial exploitation means losing one of the last truly wild places on earth, the largest unspoiled wildlife refuge in America, and a haven for Porcupine caribou and imperiled polar bears.

We can stop this destruction before it's too late. We must. Can I count on you to join our fight?

Thank you for making our work possible.

Sincerely,

Niel Lawrence
Alaska Director and Senior Attorney, NRDC