No Arctic License

The Western Arctic is on the auction block—and the corporations that drive this destruction don’t have to play along. We’re holding them accountable.

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What We Stand To Lose

The National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (known as the Western Arctic) is the largest single unit of federally managed public land in the United States. It is also one of the most ecologically significant places on Earth. The Trump administration has now opened 82% of it to potential drilling, including habitat that has been protected under every administration since Ronald Reagan.

23M Acres at Risk

The full expanse of the Western Arctic—larger than West Virginia—is now subject to the Trump administration's expanded leasing rules.

5 Mandated Lease Sales

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" requires BLM to hold at least five NPR-A lease sales over 10 years, each offering a minimum of 4 million acres.

Why Corporate Accountability is the Key

Many of the Biden-era protections are gone. The lawmakers who could have stopped this are outvoted. But the companies that want to drill still need something they can’t get from Washington: a social license to operate.

Politicians respond to power. But corporations respond to something else: reputation, investor pressure, and the cost of public opposition. Every comment, every share, every question posted on a company’s feed is a small withdrawal from their social capital bank account.

These toolkits are your weekly briefing. Each week, we’ll tell you who bid, where they post, and what to say. Your job is to show up in their mentions and remind them—and their audiences—that the Arctic isn’t just a resource. It’s alive.

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Teshekpuk Lake

Teshekpuk Lake is critical nesting habitat for millions of migratory birds that travel to every U.S. state and six of seven continents and is now open to leasing for the first time in nearly a decade.

Caribou

The Teshekpuk caribou herd calves in areas now open to leasing, and Indigenous communities depend on this herd for subsistence—a way of life connected to this land for thousands of years.

Critical Wetlands

The Western Arctic holds among the most important and massive wetland complexes in the American Arctic, with ecological values Congress has repeatedly mandated must be protected.

Climate

What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. Emissions from oil and gas development here will contribute to climate change around the globe.

The Arctic doesn't have a seat at the boardroom table. Let's change that.

Leases get sold. Reputations get built—and dismantled. Help us raise the cost of Arctic extraction until no corporation, bank, insurer, or operator can justify it.

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