U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Wednesday welcomed the announcement of more than $30.4 million for 42 climate resilience projects in tribal communities in Alaska. These awards, made through funding provided by Congress through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Inflation Reduction Act, and the annual appropriations […]
WASHINGTON – Wednesday, Representatives Mary Peltola (D-AK-AL), Jim Baird (R-IN-04), Rick Larsen (D-WA-02), and Mark Amodei (R-NV-02) introduced H.R. 7727, the Arctic Diplomacy Act, a bipartisan bill to establish an Ambassador at-Large for the Arctic region. The legislation would mandate filling the position of Arctic Ambassador, making it a requirement for any administration to have […]
HOUSTON, TEXAS – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hand delivered a letter Monday at CERAWeek in Houston, Texas, to President Biden’s Climate Envoy John Podesta urging an “immediate reversal” of the Biden administration’s ban on new LNG exports and warning of the “dire national security and foreign policy […]
(Anchorage, AK) – When the United States tied up 309 square miles of State land in Bristol Bay with new regulations, it broke its contract with the State, violating the Cook Inlet Land Exchange of 1976 and violating the Statehood Act of 1953. Thursday, the state of Alaska filed a complaint in the U.S. Court […]