by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 3, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska
On June 2, 2020, a federal court ruled the Trump EPA must revise rules governing the Clean Water Act’s National Contingency Plan – which covers oil spill prevention and response in Alaska and across the United States. Inletkeeper joined Alaska Natives and...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 2, 2020 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
TAKE ACTION NOW: https://inletkeeper.org/hilcorpdumping/ CHECK OUT OUR SHORT VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT5Fqlfbubs In today’s increasingly greedy world, oil and gas companies will go to just about any length to make as much profit as possible. And Texas-based...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 20, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Local Economies, Salmon
Government bureaucrats love to highlight Alaska’s work protecting our environment, because it helps sell the idea that Alaska’s “open for business.” The big mining, oil and gas corporations also like to tout Alaska’s green bona fides, because it helps insulate them...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 12, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
When Pebble’s draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) came out last year, it was widely panned as a superficial nothing burger, designed simply to push the project to the next stage of the process. How bad was it? So bad that agencies reporting to Donald...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 29, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine
When it comes to development projects like the Pebble mine, our state agencies in Alaska are supposed to be neutral arbiters. They can call balls and strikes, and but they’re not supposed to hit home runs for one side or another. But a recent letter from the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 6, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
Alaskans fighting the Pebble mine have largely focused their ire on Senator Lisa Murkowski, because she’s the more moderate politician and someone who might actually do something. Dan Sullivan, on the other hand, has largely escaped scrutiny, because Alaskans...
