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Dear NRDC Action Fund Activist –

The House has passed a terrible bill to open up hundreds of millions of acres of lands and waters to indiscriminate oil drilling — including the 13 million acres that were just granted maximum protection by the Biden administration.

This is not the news we wanted to hear, but there’s still time to fight back.

This anti-environment, anti-wildlife legislation — or other attacks like it — could be voted on in the Senate at any time. Can we count on you to help turn back these assaults?

Send an urgent message to your House representative expressing your outrage at the passage of this dangerous oil drilling bill — and tell your senators to oppose this legislation and any other attacks on America’s Arctic.

The fossil fuel industry, including oil giant ConocoPhillips, wants to claim America’s Arctic as its own, opening this pristine landscape, its Indigenous communities, and its wildlife and ecosystems to indiscriminate, dirty, and dangerous oil drilling, while exacerbating the climate crisis.

This bill puts fossil fuel profits over our planet and its people. We must do everything in our power to stop it.

Act now to tell Congress to stand strong against oil industry pressure and oppose any attempts to expand drilling in the Arctic.

Sincerely,

Katie Hobbs
Advisor, NRDC Action Fund

P.S. Read more about this disastrous legislation in my original email to you below.

Tell Congress: Don't sacrifice America's Arctic to indiscriminate dirty and dangerous oil drilling!

The House of Representatives is considering a disastrous new bill, H.R. 6285, that would subject hundreds of millions of acres of the Arctic to indiscriminate oil drilling. We can't afford to let Big Oil and their allies roll back our hard-won progress.

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Dear NRDC Action Fund Activist,

The fossil fuel industry, including oil giant ConocoPhillips, and their MAGA allies in Congress are relentlessly trying to exploit the Arctic — risking irreparable devastation in a region that is experiencing climate change four times faster than the rest of the planet.

The House of Representatives is poised to vote this week on a destructive bill that would reverse protections for hundreds of millions of acres in the Arctic, on land and sea.

We can't let this bill pass.

Urge your representative to vote NO on H.R. 6285 and reject any other attempts to drill in the Arctic.

If passed, this dangerous bill would:

Mandate the reissue of seven illegal Trump administration oil leases
Roll back the protections granted to 13 million acres in Alaska's pristine Arctic Reserve by the Biden administration just weeks ago
Eliminate existing protections for 125 million acres in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
Remove protections for the Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, an ecosystem that supports one the largest seasonal marine mammal migrations in the world
Reverse several critical actions taken by the Biden administration to protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Prioritizing communities and protecting imperiled wildlife over drilling in the Arctic is imperative to reducing climate-busting carbon pollution to the levels we need to avert climate catastrophe. This bill puts fossil fuel profits above everything else — and we can't afford to let it pass.

We're closer than ever to the clean energy future we need to stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis. President Biden's 2022 climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, has made unprecedented investments in our clean energy economy, and the administration recently issued groundbreaking standards to slash pollution from the two biggest sources, transportation and power plants.

We must do everything we can to capitalize on this momentum — not let dangerous legislation from Big Oil extremists in Congress drag us backwards.

We have to stop this bill in its tracks. Please, will you send your letter to your representative today?

Thank you for fighting for the Arctic, its communities and wildlife, and our climate future.

Sincerely,

Katie Hobbs
Advisor, NRDC Action Fund

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