Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska), Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), and North Slope and other Alaska leaders Wednesday expressed their opposition to two Alaska new anti-development decisions announced by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI). DOI is proposing to withdraw millions of acres within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) and […]
Anchorage, AK—Today, Representative Peltola was joined by Tommy Beaudreau, Deputy Secretary of the Interior, and Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor to the President and White House Infrastructure Coordinator, to announce $100 million in new funding for broadband projects in Alaska. The funding is being delivered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s ReConnect program to three […]
Anchorage, Alaska – Tuesday the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) welcomed Attorney General Merrick Garland, U.S. Department of Justice to Alaska. Attorney General Garland was traveling on a Congressional trip invited by U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski to see critical unmet needs in the state. During the meeting, AFN representatives were able to share their perspectives […]
U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska), Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), Governor Mike Dunleavy (R-Alaska), and leaders from Alaska’s North Slope today criticized a U.S. District Court ruling dismissing the State of Alaska’s and the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority’s (AIDEA) legal challenge to the Biden administration’s suspension of lawfully-issued leases […]
