JUNEAU – Senator Tom Begich (D-Anchorage) introduced a Sense of the Senate Monday urging the Permanent Fund Corporation to divest their investments from all Russian companies that are on the United States’ sanctioned list since 2014 for undermining Ukrainian sovereignty and the illegal annexation of Crimea. “These investments represent 0.1% of the value of the […]
Juneau, Alaska, December 18, 2017 – On November 26, under court order, tobacco companies Philip Morris USA, Lorillard, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Altria Group began a year-long advertising campaign telling the American people the truth about the deadly consequences of smoking and secondhand smoke. In 2006, a federal court ordered the companies to make these […]
Update, Jan. 23, 2017: The Trump Organization is now filing paperwork on President Trump’s resignation from his companies. As of 5:30 p.m., it has filed paperwork for at least 14 companies in Florida. The documents, which we’ve posted, are dated Monday, Jan. 23. During today’s press briefing, White House Strategic Communication Director Hope Hicks said […]
Alaska’s natural resource managers are using a UAF-developed web app to let oil field companies know when it’s ok to build ice roads and drive across the tundra on the North Slope. Notifying oil companies and contractors when it is safe to operate vehicles off-road to get to remote sites without damaging the fragile tundra […]