SAVE imperiled polar bears from Big Oil’s Arctic drilling!

Polar bears are clinging to survival while their precious Arctic habitat is rapidly melting away TWICE as fast as the rest of the world.

These beloved mammals are already suffering the worst impacts of human-driven climate change, largely driven by the fossil fuel industry’s greed. And now, the Biden administration has just approved a new rule permitting the very same industry to push these precious animals even closer to EXTINCTION!

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed a 95% probability that the increased Big Oil and Gas activity under this new administrative rule will cause “SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH” to threatened Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears, the most imperiled polar bear population in the world.

But despite these findings, the agency has FAILED to protect the fragile Arctic region and the vulnerable polar bears who call it home. So we’re calling on 4,702 more environmentalists like you to speak up by 11:59 P.M. TONIGHT and send a strong message from the public:

We will NOT stand for any more dirty energy handouts at the expense of our polar bears and our planet!

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Dear U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,

In 2021, the Biden administration passed a rule that lets oil and gas companies harass already threatened Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears and ignores the likelihood that these activities could cause injury and death.

Continued harassment can stress polar bears to the point of injury or death, and there are only about 900 of these polar bears left. FWS’s own science presents the probability that the North Slope’s oil and gas activities will cause serious injury or death to polar bears over the regulation’s five-year period.

The rule doubles down on the threat to the Beaufort Sea polar bear population by letting an industry already responsible for a climate crisis also harm and potentially kill polar bear cubs while further industrializing the bears’ habitat for oil and gas.

Moreover, this rule is a violation of the Marine Mammals Protection Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

I am writing to you today to urge your agency to reject this new rule and refuse to authorize any new or expanded oil and gas activities under the rule.

Sincerely,

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