Seattle — A landmark court decision issued Thursday casts doubt on whether Kinder Morgan’s troubled and controversial Trans Mountain pipeline project can go forward. United States Coast Salish Tribes — including the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Tulalip Tribes, Lummi Nation, and Suquamish Tribe — are celebrating the decision, which finds that the permits for the […]
BRUSSELS — A meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began on a confrontational note on Wednesday with U.S. President Trump singling out Germany for criticism, accusing the largest and wealthiest European member of the defense alliance of being a “captive” of Russia. During a breakfast meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump pointedly criticized Germany […]
ANCHORAGE— The Trump administration on Thursday took a major step toward opening up America’s largest roadless area — Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve — for new, industrial-scale oil development. The project threatens important habitat for several species that live on the Arctic Coastal Plain, including polar bears, caribou and migratory birds. Today’s draft review from the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — An electronic sensor on the more than 800-mile stretch of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was just triggered. A potential leak is happening, so you send a team out to respond. When the team shows up, it was a false alarm, but then another alarm goes off, then another, and before […]