Dear NRDC Supporter,

This Thanksgiving week, NRDC has a lot to be grateful for. And at the top of that list are the 3 million supporters who've made our biggest victories possible.

Can you guess which of these victories supporters like you helped us achieve?

☐ REINSTATED: Arctic Ocean Drilling Ban (2019)
The Trump administration attempted to open up 98% of the U.S. Arctic Ocean and parts of the Atlantic Ocean — roughly 128 million acres in all — to oil and gas leasing.

☐ DEFEATED: Keystone XL Pipeline (2021)
This 1,200-mile pipeline would have transported over 800,000 barrels of tar sands crude daily — among the world's dirtiest oil, which produces 3 to 4 times more carbon pollution than conventional crude.

☐ RESTORED: Gray Wolf Protections (2022)
Politicians attempted to remove federal protections from this keystone species, which would have exposed gray wolves to aggressive hunting and trapping — driving them back toward extinction.

☐ INVALIDATED: Offshore Lease Sale (2025)
The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management violated the law when it approved offshore oil and gas lease sale 259 in the Gulf of Mexico — a lease sale that would have serious climate impacts and would threaten the highly endangered Rice's whale.

Thanks for standing with NRDC. The truth is: every pipeline defeated, every species protected, every forest preserved... it all happened because of supporters like you standing alongside NRDC's scientists, lawyers, and experts.

Your support gives us the legal standing to take polluters to court. The resources to fight back against assaults on our environment. And the power to win.

With gratitude for your support,

NRDC