At the end of June, the Trump administration stood by the EPA’s veto of the Pebble Mine during oral arguments in federal court. This is an encouraging sign in the ongoing fight to defend Bristol Bay from one of the most reckless mining proposals Alaska has ever faced. The Pebble Partnership is seeking to overturn the EPA’s 2023 Clean Water Act...
What Is the Proposal? Instream flow reservation regulations allow water to remain in rivers, streams, and lakes to support fish habitat and other public values. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is considering changes to the state's instream flow reservation regulations, known as 11 AAC 93. While DNR has stated that the...
Alaska's wild salmon depend on clean, cold water. A statement so obvious it feels trite to write, yet ensuring that enough water remains in rivers and streams for salmon to spawn, rear, and migrate is becoming increasingly important—and increasingly challenging. Fortunately, Alaska has a tool designed to do exactly that: instream flow...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 4, 2026 The Big Beautiful Cook Inlet (BBC1) Oil and Gas Lease Sale Was a Flop Zero bids received on Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil & Gas Lease sale HOMER, AK— The Department of Interior announced that there were zero bids in today’s Big Beautiful Cook Inlet (BBC1) oil and gas lease sale. This lease sale, held by...
In July of 2025, Congress passed the Big Beautiful Bill Act, a section of which requires BOEM to hold at least six offshore oil and gas lease sales in Alaska, one each year from 2026 to 2028, and again from 2030 to 2032. The first of these six mandated lease sales is now scheduled for March 4, and it is moving forward without new environmental...
After U.S. forces captured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, Donald Trump bluntly told reporters he wanted U.S. oil companies to make heavy investments there, saying “We’re going to be taking a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground.” Something that's normally subtext became an unvarnished acknowledgement: federal policy consistently...
HOMER, AK — Cook Inletkeeper denounced the federal government’s draft 11th Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 5-year plan, which proposes five new oil and gas lease sales in Lower Cook Inlet between 2027 and 2031. The draft plan proposes opening approximately 1.27 billion acres of public waters nationwide for oil and gas development across the U.S....
In November 2025, the federal government released its draft 11th OCS Five-Year Plan, proposing five new oil and gas lease sales in Lower Cook Inlet between 2027 and 2031. Nationwide, the plan would open approximately 1.27 billion acres of public waters to oil and gas development across the Pacific coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and nearly all of...
Climate activists have a simple imperative as our goal: “Keep it in the ground!” It being fossil fuels and the climate-damaging carbon pollution they become when burnt. But oil and gas drillers aren't keeping their product in the ground. As global carbon emissions and temperatures continue to rise, there’s been a parallel wave of advocacy to “put...
As 2025 draws to a close, we take stock—with gratitude for what we’ve accomplished together, and resolve for the work still before us. Cook Inlet | Tikahtnu is a special place. Its waters, salmon, wildlife, and communities have sustained life here for millennia. That didn’t happen by accident—and it won’t continue without people willing to stand...
