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Natural Resources Committee to consider strengthening roadless area protections

By Corey Himrod | Alaska Wilderness League on May 12, 2022   Featured, General News, Politics, Southeast Alaska  

Natural Resources Committee to consider strengthening roadless area protections

Indigenous and conservation groups welcome the hearing, emphasizing the urgency to provide more durable protections for critical areas of national forests WASHINGTON – The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands will hold a hearing on Wednesday to consider the Roadless Area Conservation Act. Introduced in 2021 by Reps. […]

Biden administration to return Western Arctic to pre-Trump management

By Corey Himrod | Alaska Wilderness League on Jan 10, 2022   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Biden administration to return Western Arctic to pre-Trump management

Washington — Today in a release the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced “it has selected Alternative A (the ‘No Action’ alternative) from the 2020 Integrated Activity Plan Environmental Impact Statement (IAP/EIS) as its ‘preferred alternative’ for further consideration. If confirmed in a new record of decision (ROD), this preferred alternative would revert management of […]

Reconciliation to move forward with Arctic Refuge oil program repeal in place

By Corey Himrod | Alaska Wilderness League on Sep 10, 2021   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Reconciliation to move forward with Arctic Refuge oil program repeal in place

Washington — Thursday the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S House of Representatives completed mark-up of budget reconciliation language that includes repeal of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas program and the buyback of all existing leases. The program originally passed through reconciliation in 2017 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs […]

Biden to scrap Trump environmental review of oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Refuge

By Corey Himrod | Alaska Wilderness League on Aug 3, 2021   Featured, General News, North Slope/Northwest Alaska  

Biden to scrap Trump environmental review of oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Refuge

  Washington — Tuesday, the Biden administration, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, and the U.S. Department of the Interior announced via Notice of Intent in the Federal Register plans to begin a new environmental review of oil and gas development on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.   Statement by Kristen Miller, Acting […]

Interior announces it will abandon Trump effort to weaken Arctic offshore safety regulations

By Corey Himrod | Alaska Wilderness League on May 7, 2021   At Sea, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Interior announces it will abandon Trump effort to weaken Arctic offshore safety regulations

Washington — Today the U.S. Department of the Interior announced it will withdraw a December 2020 proposal from the Trump administration that would have weakened safety regulations for oil drilling in Arctic waters.   Statement by Leah Donahey, Legislative Director, Alaska Wilderness League said in a statement:   “Given the massive challenges of conducting offshore […]

Arctic Refuge Oil Lease Sale Compromises Vital Alaska Wilderness

By Corey Himrod | Alaska Wilderness League on Jan 7, 2021   Featured, State  

Arctic Refuge Oil Lease Sale Compromises Vital Alaska Wilderness

Lame duck administration takes next step in a rushed process to open one of the nation’s most iconic and sacred landscapes to oil drilling   Washington — The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority emerged as the apparent high bidder in the Trump administration’s illegal oil and gas lease sale as part of its Coastal […]



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