U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
With your support, this year, we kept up the fight to preserve Arctic lands and waters that are critical to the survival of wildlife, culturally important to Indigenous peoples, and serve as vital bulwarks against climate change.
Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice
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With your support,
this year, we kept up the fight to preserve Arctic lands and waters that are critical to the survival of wildlife, culturally important to Indigenous peoples, and serve as vital bulwarks against climate change.
Since establishing our Alaska regional office in 1978, we’ve been on the ground across Alaska and throughout the region, fighting destructive oil and gas drilling and other threats to the region’s communities, lands, waters, and wildlife.
Together, we’re bringing extraordinary hope and strength to the Arctic and its wildlife and people. But there’s so much more to do.
Legal pressure brought by Earthjustice helped to halt the Peregrine exploratory drilling project in the Western Arctic — defusing one carbon bomb that threatens to undermine our nation’s climate goals.
Photo: Gary Braasch / NWF
We’ve fought to protect the Arctic for decades.
And this year, the Biden administration took important steps to do so, canceling illegal oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and proposing important safeguards against new fossil fuel threats.
Photo: Art Wolfe / Getty Images
ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow oil and gas project still threatens the Arctic — despite the fact that we previously blocked it in court, the public overwhelming opposes it, and climate action requires an end to Arctic drilling.
Photo: ConocoPhillips
We’re not backing down.
Earthjustice is back in court challenging the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow development — and we’re committed to holding the administration accountable to its climate promises.
Photo: Kiliii Yüyan for Earthjustice
Let’s work together to end fossil fuel extraction across the U.S.
