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Oil and gas industry fears Biden will halt key projects in Alaska February 5th |     President Joe Biden moved swiftly in his first days in office to suspend oil and gas drilling on federal lands, stirring concerns among Alaska leaders and drillers that key projects may be halted. The new Democratic president's actions haven't yet appeared to cause long-term disruptions in Alaska, though an oil exploration project was delayed for more than a week. While many Alaskans expect the state's existing oil fields to keep pumping oil, they say Biden's plans to retool the national economy to de...

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. In October, following Trump’s direct intervention and under pressure from Alaska state officials, the administration rescinded the ‘roadless rule’ in the Tongass National Forests, thus clearing the way to expand access of logging, mining, and other extractive industries. The Trump administration has rolled back environmental protections, from the over touted yet actually modest recent levels  of protection other administrations. have pursued. T...

Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. (Mark Brennan via Wikipedia) (CN) — A diverse coalition of environmental groups, indigenous communities and businesses located in Southeastern Alaska filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday, claiming the rollback of restrictions on logging in the 17-million-acre Tongass National Forest could harm one of the continent’s largest forests.  The Organized Village of Kake, the Hoonah Indian Association, the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association and green groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council and The Center for Biological Di...

For Immediate Release, December 23, 2020 Contact: Robert Starbard, Hoonah Indian Association, robert.starbard@hiatribe.org Lee Wallace, Organized Village of Saxman, (907) 617-3128, iragovt@kpunet.net| Linda Behnken, Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association, (907) 738-3615 Hunter McIntosh, The Boat Company, hunter@theboatcompany.com Dan Blanchard, Uncruise, danb@uncruise.com Sally Schlichting, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC), (907) 957-3488, sally@seacc.org Becky Knight, Alaska Rainforest Defenders, bknight15@icloud.com Corey Himrod, Alaska Wilderness Le...