JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday at 6:08 p.m. for five missing fishermen in the waters near Sutwik Island, Alaska. The five missing are: Gary Cobban, Jr. (Master) David Lee Cobban Arthur Ganacias Brock Rainey Seth Rousseau-Gano The two survivors are: • Dean Gribble, Jr. • John Lawler […]
Former lobbyist turned Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, says critic, probably assumed gift “to his former oil and gas client would slip by unnoticed.” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt was condemned Monday for a proposed policy shift on offshore drilling panned as a “sweetheart giveaway” for a former client. The new extraction-encouraging proposal was announced […]
It has been almost a decade since the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill. Described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil oozed into the Gulf of Mexico, severely degrading the marine ecosystem immediately surrounding the spill site and directly impacting coastal habitats along 1,773 kilometers of shoreline. […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick and an officer from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement conducted joint safety and living marine resource boardings in the Gulf of Alaska last week. The boarding team, consisting of a Coast Guard boarding team and a NOAA enforcement […]