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While in office, President Trump and his Interior Department authorized oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the first time in history — an egregious intrusion into wildlands of critical importance to the Gwich’in and the Indigenous communities that stand with them and a shameless attack on our climate, wildlands, and threatened Arctic wildlife.

President Biden’s Interior Department has launched a formal review of Trump’s decision to allow destructive oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

More drilling in the Arctic — where temperatures are already rising at three times the rate of the rest of the planet — will only keep the U.S. shackled to dirty fossil fuels and exacerbate an already dire climate crisis.

We must keep the pressure on the Biden administration to reverse Trump’s oil and gas leasing program in the Arctic Refuge and do everything they can to protect these pristine wildlands.

Help us keep the pressure on: Submit a public comment before the 10/4 deadline telling Biden’s Interior Department why they need to do everything they can to protect these pristine wildlands.

President Biden’s Interior Department has launched a formal review of Trump’s policy allowing devastating oil and gas leasing in the Arctic Refuge. Send a public comment by Oct. 4 telling them why they need to protect these pristine wildlands.

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Dear Secretary Haaland:

Please reverse the Trump administration's reckless oil and gas program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and do everything you can to protect these pristine wildlands before it's too late.

Any industrialization of the Arctic Refuge would be an egregious intrusion into wildlands of critical importance to the Gwich'in and the Indigenous communities that stand with them. And it's also a shameless attack on our climate, our shared wildlands, and threatened Arctic wildlife.

As this important scoping process begins to determine the future of the Arctic Refuge, please know that I am joined by hundreds of thousands of other NRDC's members and activists who are watching closely and demanding you do the right thing by protecting the Refuge.

Losing the Arctic Refuge to industrial exploitation means losing one of the last truly wild places on earth, the largest unspoiled wildlife refuge in America, and a haven for Porcupine caribou and imperiled polar bears -- and it would exacerbate the already worsening climate crisis. Please do everything in your power to make sure that doesn't happen.

Thank you.

Natural Resources Defense Council

Tell the Biden Administration: Reverse Trump’s Policy and Protect the Arctic Refuge

Tell the Biden Administration: Reverse Trump’s Policy and Protect the Arctic Refuge

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