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| Show your support for President Obama's plan to protect the Arctic! |
Already, several Republican members of Congress from Alaska are attacking the plan. So we need your help to show President Obama that we have his back when he stands up for our environment.
Thank President Obama for protecting the Arctic!
The oil and gas industry has long sought access to drill on the refuge’s 1.5 million acres of coastal plain, which is home to indigenous peoples and great wildlife diversity. But with this plan, President Obama has signaled that he’s interested in protecting our planet, not Big Oil’s profits.
President Obama also asked Congress to make this protection permanent by designating over 12 million acres, including the coastal plain, as wilderness. That would mean the area would be permanently off-limits to fossil fuel development. Congress probably won’t go that far, but for now, the area will be treated as a wilderness area -- despite Congressional inaction.
Stand with President Obama and his decision to protect the Arctic: Take action now!
The President’s announcement builds on similar protective measures to permanently withdraw Alaska’s Bristol Bay and 9.8 million acres in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas from offshore drilling. These areas belong to all Americans and, in the President’s words, are “too special” to develop. This most recent plan is a great next step.
Protecting the Arctic is a powerful way to ensure fossil fuels are kept in the ground, and will help solidify President Obama’s climate legacy. With your help, we can ensure that the President continues to take action to protect our public spaces from fossil fuel development.
Tell President Obama to continue to protect some of our most beautiful and important public lands and waters.
Protect
the Arctic Refuge!
The
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the most important onshore polar bear
denning habitats on the North Slope of Alaska!
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President
Obama took a strong stand for polar bears and other Arctic wildlife yesterday –
and now it’s up to Congress to follow through.
By recommending formal wilderness status for the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the President’s proposal urges Congress to ensure that the crown jewel of America’s National Wildlife Refuge System will be safe from oil drilling and development for all time.
Tell your members of Congress to support HR 239 and the Senate companion legislation to designate the Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge as wilderness!
The Arctic Refuge is a landscape of superlatives. It’s the one of the most important onshore polar bear denning habitats on the North Slope of Alaska. It hosts the annual migration of the Refuge’s Porcupine caribou herd which is one of the longest overland mammal migrations in the world. Grizzly bears, wolves, muskoxen, arctic foxes, wolverines are just a few of the other wild animals that live in this magnificent wild land.
But for decades, the Coastal Plain of the Refuge has also been the target of oil companies and others who would plunder this unique and fragile land, causing irreparable harm. Wilderness designation would end that debate once and for all.
Tell your members of Congressto follow the President’s lead and designate the Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge as wilderness.
By recommending formal wilderness status for the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the President’s proposal urges Congress to ensure that the crown jewel of America’s National Wildlife Refuge System will be safe from oil drilling and development for all time.
Tell your members of Congress to support HR 239 and the Senate companion legislation to designate the Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge as wilderness!
The Arctic Refuge is a landscape of superlatives. It’s the one of the most important onshore polar bear denning habitats on the North Slope of Alaska. It hosts the annual migration of the Refuge’s Porcupine caribou herd which is one of the longest overland mammal migrations in the world. Grizzly bears, wolves, muskoxen, arctic foxes, wolverines are just a few of the other wild animals that live in this magnificent wild land.
But for decades, the Coastal Plain of the Refuge has also been the target of oil companies and others who would plunder this unique and fragile land, causing irreparable harm. Wilderness designation would end that debate once and for all.
Tell your members of Congressto follow the President’s lead and designate the Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge as wilderness.
