The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday a comprehensive ban on asbestos, targeting the last remaining form of the chemical still used in the United States. Although asbestos was the first chemical banned under a 2016 chemical safety law removing it from many consumer products, the cancer-causing material is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake […]
HOUSTON, TEXAS – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hand delivered a letter Monday at CERAWeek in Houston, Texas, to President Biden’s Climate Envoy John Podesta urging an “immediate reversal” of the Biden administration’s ban on new LNG exports and warning of the “dire national security and foreign policy […]
Toolik Field Station has partnered with the new Polar Research Infrastructure Network to boost international collaboration in polar science. The project, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, will increase international access to 64 field stations, vessels and other polar research facilities across Europe, the Americas and Antarctica. Researchers from the U.S. will be […]
(Anchorage, AK) – When the United States tied up 309 square miles of State land in Bristol Bay with new regulations, it broke its contract with the State, violating the Cook Inlet Land Exchange of 1976 and violating the Statehood Act of 1953. Thursday, the state of Alaska filed a complaint in the U.S. Court […]