The Interior Department wants to roll back hard-won protections for the Western Arctic—putting wildlife, Indigenous and local communities and our climate at risk.
This is our last chance to speak out. The public comment period ends in a week, August 4.
Officially known as the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, this 23-million-acre landscape is the largest tract of public land in the United States. It supports caribou, polar bears, migratory birds and a subsistence way of life for Nuiqsut and other nearby Alaska communities.
Last year, the Biden administration put in place stronger protections from new oil and gas drilling, in particular on 13 million acres—ensuring maximum protection for five designated "Special Areas." Those areas, Teshekpuk Lake, Utukok River Uplands, Colville River, Kasegaluk Lagoon and Peard Bay, are considered to be of exceptional ecological and cultural significance.
Now, those protections are under threat. We need to act—before August 4.
Thank you for your advocacy and support.
Sincerely,
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