The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro conducts a boarding of a Chinese fishing vessel The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro recently completed a nearly two-month patrol, traveling 12,500 miles throughout the North Pacific Ocean, supporting Operation North Pacific Guard, an annual high seas U.S. fisheries international law […]
An Astra rocket launch from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak island ended sooner than expected on Friday night when the vehicle suffered oscillations and safety systems shut down the engines and it crashed back to the ground in a spectacular explosion. The launch at 11:19 pm was a test of the company’s first […]
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) returned home Monday to Alameda following a three month, 15,000 mile, multi-mission patrol. Munro’s crew began their patrol in the Bering Sea and spent 37 days enforcing fisheries regulations from Alaska to the maritime boundary line separating U.S. and Russian waters. Munro’s crew […]
EPA Region 10 supports Pacific Northwest and Alaskan efforts to identify and reduce toxic threats SEATTLE (July 29,2020)— Aggressively addressing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continues to be an active and ongoing priority for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA has made significant progress implementing the PFAS Action Plan—a comprehensive cross-agency plan to address an emerging chemical-of-concern that has appeared in ground and drinking water […]