WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Nick Begich III (all R-Alaska), today slammed the Department of the Interior (DOI) for holding a lease sale in the non-wilderness Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in a manner that predictably resulted in no bids. The lease sale, announced in December after […]
“Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is all risk with no reward,” said one advocate. Wildlife protection groups and Indigenous leaders in Alaska said Monday that they would push to discourage bidding in an oil and gas lease sale just announced by the U.S. Interior Department for part of the Arctc National […]
Sale includes minimum acres required, creating smallest footprint of potential surface disturbance and limiting seismic exploration ANCHORAGE — Monday the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a Record of Decision (ROD) for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), which analyzed the program as well as a lease sale mandated […]
Funding will strengthen NOAA’s Climate-Ready Coasts initiative Friday, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce and NOAA have recommended $78.9 million for projects in Alaska to make the state’s coast more resilient to climate change and other coastal hazards. The awards are being made under the Biden Administration’s Climate Resilience Regional […]