by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 27, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Local Economies, Uncategorized
When President Biden took office, he promptly delivered on his campaign promise to address climate change by pausing new oil and gas leasing in federal waters until his Administration could review the leasing program. The pause put the brakes on proposed federal Lease...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 27, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
In the complex interplay between corporate profits and environmental protection, it can be hard to connect the dots to understand the larger picture. Inletkeeper is now engaged on two fronts which at first may appear disconnected, but on closer inspection, reveal a...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 4, 2021 | Bears, Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
Cook Inletkeeper today applauded the decision by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to cancel public hearings around the proposed million-acre Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet. BOEM’s move comes in the wake of President Biden’s...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jan 27, 2021 | Bears, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Uncategorized
In early January, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) spit out an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the 1 million acre + Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258. BOEM spent a mere 3 months on the EIS; never before had the federal government rushed through...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jan 13, 2021 | Bears, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
In the last brutal days of the Trump Administration, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) threw a desperate lifeline to the oil and gas industry. On January 13, BOEM released a rushed and haphazard draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to pave the...
by Sue Mauger | Dec 30, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
In my early years learning about the ecology of streams, I spent a few summers in the sagebrush country of southeastern Oregon. I was studying desert springs measuring water chemistry, collecting bugs and identifying plants associated with each little oasis....
