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Groups Await Their Day in Court After Judge Rules Against Injunction in Arctic Refuge Case

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Jan 6, 2021   Featured, General News, North Slope/Northwest Alaska  

Groups Await Their Day in Court After Judge Rules Against Injunction in Arctic Refuge Case

ANCHORAGE (AK)— The Gwich’in Steering Committee and allied groups await their day in court after a U.S. District Court decided not to grant their request for an injunction that would have prevented the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from authorizing winter seismic work and issuing leases of lands in the coastal plain of the Arctic […]

Groups Rush to Court to Stop ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project Winter Road Construction and Gravel Mining

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Dec 27, 2020   Featured, General News, North Slope/Northwest Alaska  

Groups Rush to Court to Stop ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project Winter Road Construction and Gravel Mining

ANCHORAGE (AK)— Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic and five allied groups filed a motion in U.S. District Court last week requesting a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to stop ConocoPhillips from starting winter road construction and gravel mining for its Willow project. “We have experienced rising health issues, and the dismantling of traditional […]

Court Upholds Prohibition of Brown Bear Baiting in the Kenai Refuge

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Nov 20, 2020   Featured, General News, Southcentral  

Court Upholds Prohibition of Brown Bear Baiting in the Kenai Refuge

Ruling protects Kenai brown bears and maintains the Skilak recreation area for wildlife viewing ANCHORAGE, Alaska —A coalition of groups hailed a federal court decision last week that upheld a 2016 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that enshrines the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s long-standing prohibition on brown bear baiting, along with its decades-long approach […]

Groups call for immediate public access to and public input on Pebble’s mitigation plan

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Nov 20, 2020   Featured, Rural, Southwest Alaska, State  

Groups call for immediate public access to and public input on Pebble’s mitigation plan

Alaskans and the people of Bristol Bay deserve to see this critical piece before any agency decisions or actions Groups advocating for the protection of Bristol Bay waterways, salmon and communities condemn the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failure to make public a recently submitted mitigation plan for the proposed Pebble mine. “It’s remarkable that […]

Groups Sue Trump Agency for Illegal Plan to Expand Leasing, Drilling in the NPRA

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Aug 27, 2020   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Groups Sue Trump Agency for Illegal Plan to Expand Leasing, Drilling in the NPRA

  Lawsuit charges BLM with violating NEPA, other laws in plan to hand public land to fossil fuel industry ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Six groups filed a lawsuit Monday, August 24 in U.S. District Court charging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management with breaking the law by advancing a new management plan for Alaska’s National Petroleum […]

Court Shuts Down Interior’s Second Land Deal With King Cove Corp

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Jun 2, 2020   Featured, Rural, Southwest Alaska, State  

Court Shuts Down Interior’s Second Land Deal With King Cove Corp

  A federal District Court decision released late Monday resoundingly shut down the Interior Department’s second attempt at a land exchange with the King Cove Corporation to make way for a road through vital protected wetlands in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.   “For the second time, the Court has told the road proponents that invading the […]

Court Rules That Epa’s Decision to Abandon Bristol Bay Protections Can’t Be Legally Challenged

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Apr 19, 2020   Featured, Southwest Alaska, State  

Court Rules That Epa’s Decision to Abandon Bristol Bay Protections Can’t Be Legally Challenged

  ANCHORAGE – The federal district court in Alaska dismissed a consolidated lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s removal of proposed protections for Bristol Bay, Alaska. The EPA’s 2014 proposed protections under the Clean Water Act would have protected Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble mine project, but EPA withdrew its proposed determination in 2019. The […]

Indigenous Leaders Demand Action on Climate

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Jun 19, 2019   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Indigenous Leaders Demand Action on Climate

  Elders, Hunters, and Scientists Agree on Climate Impacts to Food and  Water  FORT YUKON, AK—Indigenous leaders from throughout the United States gathered last week to talk about the climate crisis and its impact on food security during a three-day Indigenous Climate Summit in Fort Yukon.  “Our traditional hunters and scientists tell us that the climate […]

Gwich’in Leaders Gather to Re-Affirm Opposition to Arctic Refuge Drilling

By Dawnell Smith | Trustees for Alaska on Apr 27, 2018   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

Gwich’in Leaders Gather to Re-Affirm Opposition to Arctic Refuge Drilling

Venetie, AK– On April 25 tribal leaders from Fort Yukon, Venetie, and Arctic Village gathered to confirm their opposition to oil and gas development on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  During this day-long meeting tribal members and leaders stood up and spoke out on how extremely important it is for the Gwich’in […]

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