Bennet Fights to Stop Republican Effort to Open Arctic Refuge to Drilling
Republican budget tax plan would open up Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy
Oct 18, 2017
U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), Edward Markey (D-MA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tom Udall (D-NM), Al Franken (D-MN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) were joined today by the League of Conservation Voters, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Alaska Wilderness League to call for the removal of any language in the Fiscal Year 2018 Republican budget resolution that would allow for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.