DILLINGHAM, AK – Bristol Bay’s communities submitted over 1,500 written comments supporting the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed restrictions to protect the waters of Bristol Bay from mines like Pebble. During the public hearings, over 85% of in-region testimony supported Clean Water Act protections and passionately communicated to EPA that mines like Pebble would pose significant […]
Washington, D.C. – Only days after calling upon the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse it’s out of touch regulation that would severely jeopardize the due process rights of Americans nationwide, Alaskan Congressman Don Young Wednesday announced the agency has relented. Earlier this month, the EPA issued a final notice in the Federal Register claiming […]
The Environmental Protection Agency is not particularly popular in Alaska, where it is often a symbolic lightning rod that represents federal intervention in state resources. Like national Republicans needing to deny climate science, it is a political fact of life that Alaskan politicians of both major parties need to express opposition to the EPA. Take […]
(Seattle—July 2, 2014) The U.S. Army is taking steps to improve management of its fuel storage tanks and comply with federal laws designed to protect groundwater at Fort Wainwright Garrison, located near Fairbanks, Alaska, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA inspections found that from at least 2012 to 2013, […]