by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 11, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat
Decades-Old Regulations Currently Allow Use of Toxic Chemicals after Oil Spills A federal district court judge ruled on August 9 in favor of Inletkeeper and a coalition of individuals and environmental groups and ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 26, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
By Claire Babbott-Bryan, Climate Change and Wild Salmon Intern I’ve been a water nerd my whole life. It began, as it so often does, with the third-grade interdisciplinary river unit. In English class, we wrote poetry personifying the local biota. In art, we crafted...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 27, 2021 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
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 | Jan 27, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
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 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....
