by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 26, 2020 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Uncategorized
Alaska’s land, water and communities are facing a climate crisis, and we all know the problem. Surface air temperatures in the Arctic are rising at twice the rate of average global warming. A hotter, more arid atmosphere is melting the state’s iconic glaciers at a...
by Sue Mauger | Jul 13, 2020 | Climate Change, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Press Releases, Salmon, Uncategorized
A new study – led by University of Alaska researchers and in collaboration with Cook Inletkeeper – provides the first evidence that declines in many of Alaska’s Chinook salmon populations can be attributed in part to climate-driven changes in their...
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 | Feb 6, 2020 | Arts, Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Events, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon, Uncategorized
This is the second piece in a series of Inletkeeper’s staff reflections from their experience at the Alaska’s first-ever Just Transition Summit Alaska’s Just Transition is about getting from where we’re at to where we want to be. We’re in a single revenue...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 4, 2020 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat
On January 28, the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) announced it had been overestimating the number of endangered beluga whales for years in Cook Inlet, and said the “population is estimated to be smaller and declining more quickly than previously thought.”...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jan 23, 2020 | Arts, Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Events, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Uncategorized
Kohtr’elneyh • Remembering Forward • Alaska’s Just Transition Summit, January 8 – 10, 2020 • Fairbanks Kohtr’elneyh (We Remember) is the Lower Tanana language of the Benhti’ Kenaga https://www.justtransitionak.org/ So what is a Just...
