“After holding our entire economy hostage and threatening to trigger a global financial meltdown, Republicans protected wealthy tax cheats and creepy billionaires,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. A preliminary analysis from the Congressional Budget Office released Thursday estimates that the $21.4 billion in IRS funding cuts that Republicans and the Biden White House agreed to enact […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) Alaska announced that funding has been approved for developing the Nuna project from the 3T drillsite in the Kuparuk River Unit (KRU). ConocoPhillips acquired the Nuna acreage in 2019 from Caelus, who had already constructed the gravel road and pad for drillsite 3T. Project construction activities will begin this […]
EPA announces the largest investment ever in brownfields communities made by President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda SEATTLE – Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $11,800,000 from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to expedite the assessment and cleanup of seven brownfield sites in Alaska while advancing environmental justice. Alaska’s communities will receive […]
U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska) welcomed allocations of nearly $216 million in fishery disaster funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce. In December, the Secretary of Commerce announced that a number of Alaska’s crab and salmon fisheries met the requirements for disaster determinations in the […]