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Watch our new video and help #EndAmazonCrude!
Help us launch our newest campaign!
Watch and share a video by Pulitzer Prize-winning animator Mark Fiore and sign the petition to #EndAmazonCrude!Every day over 9 million gallons of Amazon crude are extracted from oil wells in the western Amazon rainforest, shipped to refineries in the U.S., and processed into fuel that ends up in vehicle fleets across the country.Drilling Amazon crude has a triple carbon impact: the burning of the oil, the emissions released when cutting down the rainforest, and the destruction of the world’s largest carbon sink. The Amazon regulates global weather, contains one-fifth of the world’s flowing fresh water, and produces one-fifth of our oxygen. It is also home to over 400 distinct indigenous peoples, some of whom could be wiped out by drilling in their territory. It must be protected.

Amazon crude is destroying the rainforest, devastating our climate, and it is deadly to indigenous peoples. Please sign the petition to help #EndAmazonCrude!

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