In a press conference today, Alaska’s Governor Dunleavy announced that the first confirmed case of Novel Coronavirus has been reported in the state. According to Dunleavy the patient is a foreign traveler who self-monitored and called ahead to doctors and was immediately assessed. The patient was transiting through Alaska on an unnamed cargo flight. […]
JUNEAU, Alaska― A federal judge today rejected the Trump administration’s enormous commercial timber harvest and road-building plan for Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest of southeast Alaska. The judge ruled that the project’s approval violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which sets standards for public engagement on federal projects that will alter the environment, […]
House Bill 206 provides funding to put boots on the ground JUNEAU – In response to growing concerns over potential impacts of COVID-19 on Alaska, lawmakers today approved a budget that includes money needed to prepare for the disease which has now been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. House Bill […]
Findings published amid push to gut public oversight and environmental review for new mines Today Earthworks, along with four Alaska conservation, environmental health and justice organizations, released a report on the extensive record of spills and pollution violations at Alaska’s five major operating hardrock mines: Red Dog, Fort Knox, Pogo, Kensington and Greens […]