SIGN NOW: Save endangered polar bears and communities from destructive oil drilling in the Arctic!

Polar bears and Indigenous communities are already suffering the worst impacts of human-driven climate change, largely driven by the fossil fuel industry’s greed.

And now, greedy Big Oil wants to EXPAND its Arctic drilling and fracking in this already-fragile region – bringing in toxic pollutants, massive equipment, and excessive noise disturbances to sensitive wildlife habitats and nearby communities!

If we’re going to protect the Arctic from being completely destroyed by Big Oil, we need immediate federal action NOW.

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Dear President Biden,

In 2021, the US Fish and Wildlife Service passed a rule that lets oil and gas companies harass already threatened Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears and ignored the likelihood that these activities could cause injury and death.

Continued harassment can stress polar bears to the point of injury or death, and there are only about 900 of these polar bears left. USFWS’s own science presents the probability that the North Slope’s oil and gas activities will cause serious injury or death to polar bears over the regulation’s five-year period.

The rule doubles down on the threat to the Beaufort Sea polar bear population by letting an industry already responsible for a climate crisis also harm and potentially kill polar bear cubs while further industrializing the bears’ habitat for oil and gas.

Moreover, this rule is a violation of the Marine Mammals Protection Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

I am writing to you today to urge your administration to reject this rule and refuse to authorize any new or expanded oil and gas activities under the upcoming Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s final Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Environmental Impact Statement.

Sincerely,

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