(Anchorage, AK) – Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor joined 21 other states, in filing a petition for review Tuesday with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s new effluent limit guidelines for steam electric power. “This new regulation exceeds the agency’s authority. It stands to have substantial impacts on approximately eight […]
JUNEAU – On the last day of the legislative session, the Alaska Legislature passed Senate Bill 22, sponsored by Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson, D-Anchorage, officially recognizing Juneteenth, June 19, as an annually observed state holiday. This significant legislation commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, announcing the end of the Civil […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) Friday released the following statement regarding the National Marine Fisheries Services’ (NMFS) determination that a listing of king salmon in the Gulf of Alaska as “threatened or endangered” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) “may be warranted” in response to a petition filed by the Seattle-based Wild Fish Conservancy. “My […]
Statement follows NOAA Fisheries issuance of positive 90-day finding on a petition to list Chinook Salmon as threatened or endangered WASHINGTON – This last week, following the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announcement of a study into the merits of listing Gulf of Alaska King Salmon as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species […]