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The road to a budget black hole
What does Alaska’s budget chaos have to do with a proposed private...
22 August, 2019
Lawsuits call out Trump agencies
We filed two lawsuits charging Trump agencies with violating FOIA and environmental...
21 August, 2019
Trump targets wolves
Using planes or helicopters to locate wolves and then land nearby to shoot...
21 August, 2019
We’re taking Trump to Court. Again.
Black brandt stop during migration to feed on the rich eelgrass beds...
07 August, 2019
Trump’s EPA paves way for Pebble
Politics, power and pandering mean more to the Trump administration than clean water,...
31 July, 2019
Lawsuit calls out agencies violating FOIA
Today Trustees for Alaska and Bahr Law Offices filed a lawsuit calling...
31 July, 2019
Alaska Brief–July
Complicity takes many shapes. It can show up as apathy, distraction, and...
26 July, 2019
Failure is the new complicity
We submitted over 400 pages in comments on the Army Corps’ draft...
19 July, 2019
The NPRA leasing process is broken
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska —also known as the Western Arctic—provides rich wildlife...
19 July, 2019
U.S. House to vote on Arctic Refuge protections
An Arctic Refuge protections bill will go to the House floor in...
17 July, 2019
How does the Army Corps’ draft EIS break the law?
Trustees for Alaska and the Sierra Club Environmental Law Program just submitted...
01 July, 2019
A melting, eroding Alaska needs climate action
Tracy Lohman came to Alaska 29 years ago. She celebrates June 21,...
25 June, 2019
What do we mean by “clean water”?
You would think the one thing people everywhere would get behind and...
25 June, 2019
Alaska Brief–May 2019
The Arctic got hot early this year. Klawock hit 70 degrees Fahrenheit...
27 May, 2019
What will climate do to us?
What worries an Alaska climate expert? Rick Thoman When climate specialist Rich...
17 May, 2019
Historic vote to protect the Arctic Refuge
A historic vote moved the bipartisan House Bill 1146, the Arctic Cultural and...
16 May, 2019
Pebble is an unwelcome guest
The science used to justify the proposed Pebble mine lacks credibility. The...
16 May, 2019
Alaska Brief–April 2019
Happily, the sun has returned, with wild flowers, devil's club, mosquitoes,...
26 April, 2019
Last chance to say No Pebble mine!
The last public hearing on the draft environmental impact statement for the proposed...
15 April, 2019
Spring onto our team
You may have spoken out against the proposed Pebble mine before, and we...
15 April, 2019
Why thank the mundane for democracy?
Most administrative documents don’t make it into the limelight, but Freedom of...
15 April, 2019
Court win protects Izembek!
A federal District Court decision today voids a land exchange deal between the...
29 March, 2019
Alaska Brief–March 2019
Cook Inlet stretches 180 miles from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage,...
25 March, 2019
30 years ago, a killing oil
Thirty years ago, the “highly unlikely” happened in Prince William Sound. A giant...
22 March, 2019
Pebble’s big fish story
Pebble says it can operate a massive mine to coexist with the biggest...
22 March, 2019
In Defense of the Arctic Refuge
In December the Trump administration released a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS)...
13 March, 2019