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NEW! Trustees for Alaska Files Data Quality Act Challenge to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Permit for the Port of Anchorage Expansion Project
Trustees for Alaska Joins Brief to U.S. Supreme Court in Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Litigation
Trustees for Alaska petitions State on behalf of citizens to designate Chuitna River watershed “unsuitable” for coal strip mining. Trustees for Alaska filed a first-of-its-kind petition under a provision of state coal mining law that allows the State to declare sensitive areas off-limits to coal mining. The Chuitna watershed on the western shore of Cook Inlet is the site of a proposed massive coal strip mine that would devastate salmon streams and water quality.
Who We Are Trustees for Alaska is a nonprofit public interest law firm providing legal counsel to protect and sustain Alaska's natural environment. We represent local and national environmental groups, Alaska Native villages and nonprofit organizations, community groups, hunters, anglers, and others who are concerned about protecting Alaska’s quality of life for future generations. Our services are free of charge, and for most of our clients, we provide legal counsel they could not otherwise afford. Since 1974, Trustees for Alaska has been using a broad range of legal tools to find solutions to Alaska’s toughest environmental problems and hold decision-makers accountable. Trustees for Alaska was established to provide support to environmental organizations and community groups concerned about the impacts of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System on the environment of Arctic and Interior Alaska. Our program now provides legal advice and counsel across the entire state on issues relating to oil and gas development, mining, air pollution, water pollution, ANILCA lands, protection of wildlife habitat, land use management and protection of marine ecosystems. We help local communities to understand and participate in the legal processes that affect their lives. Trustees for Alaska works in close partnerships with client groups to ensure that our legal strategy is integrated with their grassroots organizing efforts, education and media campaigns, and administrative and legislative initiatives. Trustees for Alaska has always been on the front lines, defending Alaska’s clean water, clean air, wilderness areas and Native cultures. Our successes have set significant legal precedent in environmental law on a state and national level which resulted in direct benefits to Alaskan communities and environmental resources. Over the years, our legal actions have protected special areas in the Arctic and Bristol Bay from oil development and reduced pollution at existing Alaskan oil and gas operations. We have used effective legal strategies to protect our oceans from industrial overfishing and our national parks from air pollution and snowmobiles. We have helped block inappropriate “roads to nowhere” across wilderness areas. Trustees for Alaska’s successful track record continues today. We are playing an important role in fighting the effort to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain to oil drilling, stopping destructive bulldozer access across Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, protecting the Native Village of Kivalina from pollution from the nearby Red Dog mine, and helping property owners concerned about coal bed methane drilling in their backyards.
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