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| Alaska is facing yet another threat from oil and gas drilling, and it’s a danger to us all. |
| Cook Inlet, located in south-central Alaska, is home to sea otters and endangered beluga whales, a productive fishery, thriving tourism, and Alaska Native communities. |
| Until now, this federally controlled part of the North Pacific Ocean had been largely free from oil and gas development, but the Biden administration has scheduled Lease Sale 258 for December 30, 2022. In a few short days, almost a million acres of the Inlet will be offered up to the oil and gas industry. |
| Earthjustice is suing to save every possible acre in Cook Inlet from oil and gas development, and we need your help. |
| We’ve relied on support from donors like you for over 50 years, and we intend to keep fighting. Please, make an online gift today and a generous donor will match it $3:$1 to quadruple your impact. |
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| A provision of the Inflation Reduction Act states that Lease Sale 258 must be held before the end of 2022. However, that provision does not give the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) permission to break bedrock environmental laws. |
| The week of December 19, Earthjustice filed a lawsuit stating that BOEM failed to properly assess the lease sale’s environmental impact. |
| Drilling in Cook Inlet would disrupt wildlife unique to its waters while putting its spectacular ecosystem and all who depend on it at risk of massive oil spills. And the emissions from drilling in Cook Inlet would move us closer to 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, and climate disaster. |
| We’ve fought these battles before and we can win. Just last month, legal pressure from Earthjustice helped pause the Peregrine project, which could have generated the equivalent emissions of 173 coal power plants running for a year. |
| But we simply cannot fight these constant and growing threats without the partnership of our donors and activists. When you give today, long-time friend of Earthjustice George Martin will match your online donation $3:$1, and maximize your contribution to these crucial fights. |
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In partnership,
Erik Grafe
Deputy Managing Attorney, Earthjustice |
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