Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell has directed the Department of Law to join litigation recently filed by Alaska resident John Sturgeon. The suit seeks to limit federal regulations over state-owned navigable waters that run through national parks and preserves within Alaska.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Murkowski is co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation that attempts to fund the low income home energy assistance program (LIHEAP) at 2011 levels. Senators Snowe (R-ME) and Reed (D-RI) are the sponsors of S.1961, theLIHEAP Protection Act which would maintain a flat funding level of $4.7 billion instead of the $3.6 billion currently in […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell announced today that his Fiscal Year 2013 budget will provide $8 million in continued support for the Alaska Performance Scholarship, which challenges students to take more rigorous high school courses, and then rewards them with funding to attend Alaska’s universities and postsecondary training programs. Nearly one-third of Alaska’s 2011 […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that yesterday’s oil and gas lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) generated winning bids totaling $3,637,477 and covering 17 tracts on about 141,739 acres. The sale demonstrated industry interest in areas with high resource potential adjacent to State of […]