by David Knight | Feb 18, 2026 | Clean Water, Community Action Studio, Cook Inlet, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
Every watershed has a story. The Cook Inlet watershed | Tikahtnu K’egh’uh tells its story through its rivers, tides, the return of salmon, and the people who call this place home. This year, we will introduce a new interactive way to connect people to place, called...
by Loren Barrett | Feb 18, 2026 | Lease Sales, Clean Water, Cook Inlet, Oil & Gas
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...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jan 19, 2026 | Oil & Gas, Clean Water
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...
by Loren Barrett | Nov 18, 2025 | Clean Water, Community
In the early 1990s, while Alaska and the world were still reeling from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, federal regulators discovered something shocking in Cook Inlet: oil and gas corporations had committed more than 4,200 violations of the Clean Water Act. Rather than...
by Loren Barrett | Nov 17, 2025 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Salmon
Thanks to your support, Inletkeeper will be launching a new science project on the Little Susitna River in summer 2026. The Little Susitna has been identified by regional partners as a top priority watershed for managing salmon habitats and as one of the most...
by Loren Barrett | Aug 20, 2025 | Clean Water, Community, Government
This month Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced Administrative Order 360 — a reckless and ill-conceived attempt to gut oversight of natural resources, by automatically approving projects if the state misses review deadlines. What does this mean for Alaskans? Removal of expert...