Polar bears, caribou, rare birds, and other wildlife species rely on the Arctic's pristine wilderness. These sensitive areas are also home to dozens of Indigenous communities across Alaska and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But fossil fuel companies just see millions of acres of untapped land and water for climate-busting oil and gas drilling — and now they have the Trump administration's full support to exploit these precious places.
The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive campaign to open the Arctic to drilling. President Trump signed multiple executive orders during his first days in office to green-light more leasing in the Arctic Refuge and across vast swaths of our coastal waters... Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has followed suit with secretarial orders to accelerate fossil fuel development in this fragile region. Their actions threaten millions of acres of wilderness and ocean waters, all to serve the oil industry's unrelenting push to drill.
The Arctic region is warming more than four times faster than the rest of the world. Trump's orders would accelerate the already dire climate crisis. Add your voice to the NRDC Action Fund's fight to protect the Arctic, and the communities and wildlife that make their homes there, from more fossil fuel drilling.
