Ultra-wealthy fossil fuel executives have made billions of dollars ruining our climate. Now, they want a huge new tax break – and Congress is ready to give it to them.
The House and Senate tax plans are a disaster for everyday people and our planet: it would cut the corporate tax rate almost in half and get rid of important taxes on pipelines, drilling, mines, and refineries. At the same time, this dirty deal eliminates incentives for renewables — throwing Big Oil and Big Coal a lifeline as the administration puts the brakes on clean energy.
To help pay for this corporate giveaway, Trump and Congress want to double down on fossil fuels and make the climate crisis worse by opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.
Congress wants to help pay for tax cuts to big polluters by drilling in the Arctic. That’s unacceptable. Fight back by adding your name today at https://petitions.signforgood.com/StopArcticDrilling/.
The vibrant Arctic landscape that Congress wants to give away to Big Oil is the homeland of the Gwich’in Nation and other Alaska Native peoples who have lived off the natural wealth of the tundra for millennia.
But the Arctic is already in danger from – you guessed it – climate change. If Trump and Congress open the refuge to drilling, it could bring thousands of years of tundra life one step closer to oblivion, while bringing the climate one step closer to the tipping point.
But here’s the good news: if we stop the tax plan, we can stop the drilling. For decades, the American people have kept Big Business and Big Oil out of the refuge. We can do it again.
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