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EPA Issues Final Rule Governing Use of Chemical Dispersants on Oil Spills

EPA Issues Final Rule Governing Use of Chemical Dispersants on Oil Spills

Rules Are an Improvement But Further Local Action Will Be Essential FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Sharon DonovanCommunications Director, Earth Island Institute(510) 859-9161, sharondonovan@earthisland.org Berkeley, CA (June 13, 2023) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a long-awaited final rule governing oil spill response...

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Paper Cuts Through Clutter

Paper Cuts Through Clutter

The last few years have brought a barrage of shifts in the communications landscape. While this playing field has always changed rapidly, the continued monopolization of media outlets and growing mistrust in traditional and social media outlets on the heels of a global pandemic have made these shifts impossible to ignore.  As we cautiously...

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The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act Is A Dangerous and Misleading Example Of Corporate Welfare Amidst The Critical Minerals Mining Boom

The Mining Regulatory Clarity Act Is A Dangerous and Misleading Example Of Corporate Welfare Amidst The Critical Minerals Mining Boom

On April 25th, Senators Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) introduced the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act - a bill that represents an unprecedented rollback of protections for federal public lands and prioritizes the interests of mining companies above all other land uses, including recreation, conservation, clean energy...

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Why we endorse Levine over Jones for HEA

Why we endorse Levine over Jones for HEA

This post was co-authored by organizers Ben Boettger and Satchel Pondolfino Inletkeeper takes great care to endorse HEA candidates who understand that diversifying energy is not only essential for our climate, but also for stabilizing rates and maintaining energy security. We attend every HEA board meeting and track boardroom conversations and...

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Trust Your Gut, and Stand Up!

Trust Your Gut, and Stand Up!

Ḵaax̲gal.aat ("person who packs for themselves") is the Tlingit name for Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich, who is now known as an Alaska Native social justice warrior, but in 1945, she was an extremely marginalized Alaska Native woman in a very hostile environment. She was also a concerned citizen in the state capital, Juneau. I imagine her...

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Your Efforts for Bristol Bay have Paid off!

Your Efforts for Bristol Bay have Paid off!

The EPA’s decision this week to veto the Pebble Mine and issue Clean Water Act protections for Bristol Bay is a victory for Alaskans and the Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet ecosystems! In all the ways you showed up: at rallies, signing petitions and postcards, with dollars and loud voices, you contributed to a landmark conservation victory! Please...

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Giving Our Thanks

Giving Our Thanks

Cook Inletkeeper runs on your support, yes, your support. You help keep the lights on and the building warm; you help us keep an eye on developments in our state, region, and communities. We help keep our community keen with real stories, real science, and real research.  All our people are real people; our directors are all caretakers of...

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Biden Administration Alaska Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale Confirms Lack of Industry Interest; Alaskans Call for the Administration to Remove Cook Inlet From Future Sales

Biden Administration Alaska Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale Confirms Lack of Industry Interest; Alaskans Call for the Administration to Remove Cook Inlet From Future Sales

After canceling the sale in May of 2022, the Biden Administration moved forward with leasing Alaska’s Lower Cook Inlet—resulting in only 1 bid on 1 block out of 193. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 30, 2022 Press Contact: Grace Nolan, grace@team-arc.com; Sue Mauger, sue@inletkeeper.org (Anchorage, Alaska) – Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy...

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We are Grateful 

We are Grateful 

For December, we wanted to do something a bit different amidst the hustle and bustle that has become a hallmark of the holiday season. Enduring serial years of the pandemic and political setbacks in a time when we need immediate climate action has taken a toll on our community. We wanted to use this time to reacquaint ourselves with y'all and...

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Groups Sue to Stop Biden Administration from Leasing Cook Inlet, Alaska for Oil and Gas Drilling

Groups Sue to Stop Biden Administration from Leasing Cook Inlet, Alaska for Oil and Gas Drilling

Groups cite Department of Interior’s failure to meaningfully consider climate impacts of auctioning off close to a million acres FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 21, 2022 MEDIA CONTACTSBecca Bowe, Earthjustice (Pacific time), rbowe@earthjustice.org Jackson Chiappinelli, Earthjustice (Eastern time), (585) 402-2005,...

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