Operating Budget Includes $1,582 PFD and Energy Relief Payment this Fall. JUNEAU – Last week, the Senate passed its version of the state’s operating budget, House Bill 268, on a vote of 17-3. The $6.25 billion operating budget leaves $196 million in surplus revenue available for pending legislation, including the state’s capital budget. The operating […]
WASHINGTON — Thursday, U.S. Senators Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced legislation to improve the federal process associated with delivering fishery disaster relief. Representatives Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska) and Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) introduced the companion legislation in the House of Representatives last year. The Fishery Improvement to Streamline Untimely […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) Thursday slammed the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) – including Secretary Deb Haaland – for repeatedly sanctioning resource development in Alaska regardless of local support, national need, and federal law. Murkowski’s comments came during the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s hearing on DOI’s budget request for […]
WASHINGTON – Wednesday, Representative Mary Peltola (AK-AL) introduced the Bristol Bay Protection Act, new legislation that would codify a 2023 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to veto the Pebble Mine – a proposed copper-gold-molybdenum mining project in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska – under Clean Water Act section 404(c) ,into federal law. “I came to […]