From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org):
President Biden’s Interior Department just took a step closer to greenlighting ConocoPhillips’ proposed Willow oil and gas project today, furthering a major threat to our world’s climate. The administration released a final supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS) for the project – the second to last step before a full approval. This project would be a giveaway to fossil fuel and a blow to President’s climate legacy. But the decision is NOT FINAL.
We need your help – TODAY – to protest this decision before it becomes final in as little as 30 days. Here are two ways to speak out:
Tweet at President Biden. By targeting President Biden in this public arena, the president and the administration MUST hear our disappointment and outrage at this horrible decision to sacrifice the Arctic – and our nation’s climate goals – for fossil fuel industry profits. Click here and we’ll direct you to a Tweet you can edit when you log in to your Twitter account.
Twitter not your thing? Send a message on the White House website. Very often, we deliver messages to the White House on your behalf. But this time, we want to flood the White House server with comments about Willow. Please submit your message today by using their form here. Note that we have no control over this process once you arrive at the White House website.
More information to help you craft a message is in the PS of this email.
The Interior Department via the U.S. Bureau of Land Management must wait at least 30 days before making a final decision and issuing a Record of Decision on Willow. Please do your best to amplify the outcry against Willow so the administration feels compelled to reverse course and say no to this destructive project.
P.S. Here’s more information to help you craft a message to the White House:
Relying again on hasty and deficient analysis to assess the impacts that the massive ConocoPhillips’ proposal would have on local communities, Arctic land and water, Arctic animals, and the global climate, the Interior Department made the wrong call. The Biden administration has the ability to deny permits and should do so when it issues its final decision in as little as 30 days.
Overwhelming public and scientific input has demonstrated the threat this proposal poses to the Arctic region and the people and animals who live there. Willow would pollute water and air resources, disrupt animal migrations, destroy animal habitat, spew out over its lifetime as much carbon as running 76 coal plants for a year, and serve as a launching pad for future oil and gas expansion and pollution in the region for decades to come.
The project would have devastating impacts to the entire western Arctic region, posing serious health, environmental, and food security threats to Alaska Native communities.
If approved, Willow would be the largest oil extraction project on federal lands in the United States. It would drive massive carbon emissions with devastating climate outcomes. President Biden can still deliver another huge climate and biodiversity victory by saying no to this project. He should put the health of local people above corporate profits. He should be a global leader in taking real and enduring climate action. He should choose to protect Alaska’s western Arctic.
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