by Sue Mauger | Jan 19, 2023 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258
Nowhere is the disconnect between energy policy and climate impacts more evident than in Cook Inlet. In the same waters covered in last month’s federal Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258, federal fisheries managers closed the highly-lucrative Pacific cod fishery in...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Dec 21, 2022 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Community, Press Releases
Groups cite Department of Interior’s failure to meaningfully consider climate impacts of auctioning off close to a million acres FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 21, 2022 MEDIA CONTACTSBecca Bowe, Earthjustice (Pacific time), rbowe@earthjustice.org Jackson...
by Ben Boettger | Dec 7, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Homer Electric Association
The energy prospects on the horizon in December 2022 are very different from those of December 2021, and in December 2023, the picture is likely to be different once again. With action and engagement, we can make it a much brighter one. Mitigating the destruction...
by David Knight | Dec 1, 2022 | Climate Change, Community, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
Just weeks after January 6th 2021, a moment in U.S. history when dark clouds of hopelessnessand anxiousness overshadowed what should have been a celebration of democracy, AmandaGorman became the youngest inaugural poet, reciting her poem “The Hill We Climb” at...
by Sue Mauger | Dec 1, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258
It’s easy to feel alone in the conviction that now is the time to stop developingnew oil & gas leases in Alaska. In 2022, we’ve seen Congress mandate that Lease Sale 258 in the federal watersof Lower Cook Inlet move forward before the end of the year; and the...
by Bridget Maryott | Nov 30, 2022 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat
With the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), we saw steps forward on climate and clean energy but also steps backward, burdened with expanded oil & gas leasing and fast-tracked mining in Alaska. Linking clean energy development to decades of continued...
