America’s Arctic is a special, fragile place. It’s warming four times faster than the rest of the United States, and what happens there manifests itself across the North American continent in the form of climate disasters. It’s the last place on earth where fossil fuel companies should be given license to drill. Yet that’s exactly what happened during the Trump regime when Trump greenlit seven oil leases in a national wildlife refuge.

President Biden has correctly canceled Trump’s midnight leases, but he needs to take the next step: issuing a better supplemental environmental impact statement that protects the refuge from drilling. That means a robust assessment of the climate impacts of leasing and its compatibility with U.S. climate goals. An honest scientific review will show that oil and gas activities on the coastal plain will have unavoidable destructive impacts on Arctic Refuge wildlife habitat and on the climate, threatening the food security of the Gwich’in and Iñupiat peoples. Simply put, the land of the midnight sun is no place for midnight fossil fuel leases.