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Tell your senators to co-sponsor, support and pass a bill to stop oil drilling and development in America’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!

On September 12, 2019 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would stop oil and gas drilling in America's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now the U.S. Senate needs to do its job and protect the Arctic Refuge by passing the "Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act" (HR 1146).

The 20 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is unparalleled in its wild grandeur, ecological wholeness, and vast scale. Polar bears, caribou, muskoxen, wolves, Dall sheep, brown bears, wolverines, arctic foxes, and more than 200 bird species depend on the refuge for survival. In fact, nearly all of the Arctic Refuge is designated Wilderness or recommended for wilderness designation by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

As you may recall, in December 2017, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and the Trump administration deviously circumvented normal law-making procedures to attach an amendment to the GOP’s Tax Cut bill that opened the coastal plain of America’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. The GOP Tax Cut bill mandated at least two oil lease sales on the Arctic Refuge's coastal plain before 2027.

In fact, hours after the U.S. House passed HR 1146, the Trump administration released its Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Refuge, which calls for opening the ENTIRE 1.6 million-acre Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. Wilderness Watch and our allies will be challenging the EIS, so we'll keep you posted.

America's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge needs your help now more than ever, so please take action to keep the Arctic Refuge wild and free from drilling and development. Tell your senators to co-sponsor, support and pass the "Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act!"

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Tell your senators to co-sponsor, support and pass the "Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act!"

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Subject: Co-sponsor, support and pass the Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act

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As your constituent, I'm writing today to request that you co-sponsor, support and pass the Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act (HR 1146), which passed the U.S. House on September 12, 2019. This bill would amend Public Law 115-97 (commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) to repeal the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas program. The 20 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is unparalleled in its wild grandeur, ecological wholeness, and vast scale. Polar bears, caribou, muskoxen, wolves, Dall sheep, brown bears, wolverines, arctic foxes, and more than 200 bird species depend on the refuge for survival. In fact, nearly all of the refuge is designated Wilderness or recommended for wilderness designation by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act speaks for the majority of Americans who oppose oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Refuge. Furthermore, I believe that Wilderness designation for the entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is sorely needed. In 2015, based on the best available science and extensive public comment, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recommended adding 12,280,000 acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--including the Coastal Plain--to the Arctic Refuge Wilderness. Congress passed the Wilderness Act in 1964 to protect America's most spectacular landscapes and ecosystems, and now is not the time to open Wilderness-deserving public lands within America's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and development. Again, I urge you to co-sponsor, support and pass the Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act (HR 1146), which already passed the U.S. House on September 12, 2019. Thank you.

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