Archive for March 2015
Dispatch From The Field: A Hiker’s Guide To Wolf Sign And Climate Change
Everyone who visits the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska wants to know: have you seen evidence of climate change? As if experiencing climate change was like catching a fleeting glimpse of a wolf slipping through the trees.
Read MoreRallying To Remember A Historic Oil Spill
From Climate Progress: Activists and representatives from Alaska Wilderness League, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and World Wildlife Fund held a rally outside of the White House on the 26th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
Read MoreAdd Your Voice: Tell The Administration It Is Too Risky To Drill In Our Arctic Waters
In January 2015, the Department of the Interior (DOI) released a draft of its Outer Continental Shelf five-year plan; this plan will guide oil and gas development in areas including the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean from 2017-2022. Unfortunately, in this plan DOI included three new lease sales in Alaska, including two…
Read MoreGreater Mooses Tooth Development Set To Proceed In Western Arctic
With national media attention laser-focused on attempts to stop drilling in the Arctic, one development project in the Western Arctic recently got the green light. In late February, the Greater Mooses Tooth project (GMT1) was approved by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This project could be the first commercial development within the National Petroleum…
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