WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants to halt funding to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, the State Department confirmed Saturday. “We are carrying out the president’s direction and ending [fiscal year] 2017 and [fiscal year] 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement. “We will be engaging […]
“The judge’s ruling today shows that the president cannot just trample on the constitution to do the bidding of his cronies in the fossil fuel industry at the expense of our oceans, wildlife, and climate.” Preserving over 120 million acres of federal waters from exploitation by fossil fuel giants, a federal judge ruled late […]
Dear Legislator, A number of committees have or are calling Mr. Jason Brune to testify regarding his appointment to the position of Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation. AlaskaYes strongly opposes that appointment. Mr. Brunes history as a paid employee and representative of the Pebble Mine Partnership alone makes his appointment distasteful to […]
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]airbanks, Alaska — Several Fairbanks residents and members of Defend the Sacred AK disrupted Alaska Governor Michael J. Dunleavy’s budget “Road Show” sponsored and managed by Americans for Prosperity a group funded by the extreme conservative millionaire Koch brothers. They asked why the Governor was not addressing the approximately 500 Alaskans outside of the […]