Help send 50,000 comments to stop drilling in the Arctic!

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to rare wildlife like polar bears, porcupine caribou, and muskox. The Indigenous Gwich’in community has relied on the refuge for generations. It’s one of our last truly wild places in the U.S., and the ecosystem is fragile. But Trump wants to let the oil and gas industries drill in this sensitive area. We need your help to stop him!

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The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to diverse wildlife and supports local Indigenous communities. This unique habitat is on the forefront of impacts from climate change. Despite promising a robust, scientifically sound review process, the administration has repeatedly cut corners at every step of this process by placing arbitrary deadlines and limitations on the environmental review. Completing the leasing EIS within one year and limiting the pages does not allow sufficient time to gather and analyze scientific data, examine the negative impacts drilling would have on the landscape and wildlife, or hold meaningful discussions with the local communities and other stakeholders. The public’s ability to review the DEIS and provide meaningful comments to the agency was further diminished by the release during the busy holiday season.

This hurried process is disingenuous and incompatible with examining the true negative impacts drilling would have. Particular attention must be paid to protecting the subsistence needs of the Gwich’in people who, for thousands of years, have depended on the Porcupine Caribou that migrate through the Refuge to calve in the Coastal Plain.

Public comments submitted to the BLM during the scoping phase for the leasing EIS process were overwhelmingly in support of protecting the Arctic Refuge from development. More than 700,000 comments were submitted in opposition to development. Drilling the Coastal Plain would forever scar the landscape, impact iconic wildlife, and eviscerate the way of life for the Gwich’in. This is unacceptable.

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