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"author_name": "The Tipping Point",
"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/the-tipping-point",
"title": "Congress: Pass the Arctic Refuge Protection Act Now",
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"description": "The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last truly wild places left in America. It is a vast, unspoiled expanse of tundra, wetlands, and rugged wilderness that supports a breathtaking array of life. From migrating caribou and denning polar bears to Indigenous communities who have stewarded this land for millennia, the Arctic Refuge is a natural treasure of global importance. Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would bring destructive industrial machinery into one of the last untouched wildernesses on Earth, disrupting fragile ecosystems, endangering wildlife, and permanently scarring a landscape that has remained wild for millennia. Send your Members of Congress an email today asking them to pass the Arctic Refuge Protection Act to permanently protect this irreplaceable ecosystem from destructive oil and gas development. Drilling in the Arctic Refuge would be a climate disaster. Fossil fuel extraction in this fragile region would release millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, accelerating the climate crisis at a time when we must be urgently transitioning to clean energy. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Melting permafrost, rising sea levels, and changing weather patterns are already endangering ecosystems and communities across the planet. Opening the refuge to drilling would deepen these threats while ignoring the science demanding immediate climate action. The refuge is also a sanctuary for wildlife. It provides critical habitat for more than 200 species, including threatened polar bears, millions of migratory birds, and the Porcupine caribou herd—which Indigenous Gwich’in communities rely on. These communities have opposed drilling for decades, fighting to protect the land that sustains them. Congress must choose a just and sustainable future over short-term profits for oil companies. The Arctic Refuge Protection Act would ban drilling and permanently safeguard the coastal plain, preserving it for future generations and honoring the rights of Indigenous peoples. Send your senators and representative an email today and ask them to stand with climate science, biodiversity, and human rights and pass the Protect the Arctic Refuge Act into law.",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/congress-pass-the-arctic-refuge-protection-act-now"
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