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Friend — the Arctic is at a tipping point, and it’s urgent that we hear from you. In the midst of the longest government shutdown in history, the Trump administration has been fast-tracking multiple plans to open Alaska’s pristine wilderness for drilling and mining. |
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This moment is critical for the future of some of the last remaining intact ecosystems on the planet. |
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Here’s what we’re up against: |
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- Multiple congressional attacks on some of Alaska’s wildest places. Lawmakers recently voted to overturn safeguards across millions of acres of the Western Arctic, a move that would put ecologically vital public lands at risk from new drilling.
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- The resurrected Ambler Road Project. This corrupt deal would carve a 200-mile industrial mining corridor through the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, pollute thousands of streams and rivers, and cause irreparable destruction to the region’s ecosystem.
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- Opening up Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to industrial logging. The Tongass is the largest national forest in the U.S. and the last intact temperate rainforest left on the planet. The Trump administration moved to open it up to timber companies and industrial development, worsening climate change and forever altering the landscape.
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We’ve stopped attacks like these before, but it takes our entire movement to organize and campaign in a major way to overcome the money and influence of corporate polluters. We can only fight back with your support. |
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Last week, voters turned out across the country, in Virginia, New Jersey, Georgia, California and elsewhere, to rebuke Trump’s dirty energy agenda and elect state and local — climate champions. Our movement won big. |
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That’s because people everywhere are feeling the damage from the MAGA agenda, including how Republican giveaways to polluters are causing utility bills to soar. Now, we have momentum to block some of Trump’s worst attacks on the Arctic, too. We’re seeing lawmakers think twice about supporting wildly unpopular policies, but we have to keep the pressure up — and bring the demand for clean and affordable energy back to Washington, D.C. |
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Chris Brooks
Vice President of Membership
League of Conservation Voters |
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