Posts by Adam Kolton
Biden administration brings hope for conservation, action on climate change
Today, I’m hopeful. With the swearing in of Joseph R. Biden as the 46th President of the United States, we have put behind us a long national nightmare of environmental carnage, and can once again set our sights on bipartisan conservation progress, science-based decision-making, and valuing our public lands for the national treasures that they…
Read MoreAn Arctic Refuge lease sale happened — so what now?
On January 6, as protests in Washington, D.C., morphed into an assault on the U.S. Capitol Building and democracy itself, thousands of miles away officials from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management were opening oil lease bids submitted for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain.
Read MoreLessons in justice from three outdoor experiences
Like many, recent events have caused me, as a white person, to ask myself what I can and should do differently in my own personal and professional life to fight for justice.
Read MoreAlaska Wilderness League statement on the killing of George Floyd
Like so many Americans, we at Alaska Wilderness League are sickened and outraged over the recent violence against George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade.
Read MoreTrump’s OPEC gambit exposes folly of Arctic drilling
(This piece originally appeared in The Hill.) Upended oil markets have turned America’s energy policy on its head.
Read MoreWill a pandemic keep Trump from trying to sell off the Arctic Refuge?
Last week, President Trump met with leading oil company executives including three of the largest players on Alaska’s North Slope in ExxonMobil, Chevron and Hilcorp.
Read MoreUpdate from Alaska Wilderness League on COVID-19
To our supporters and friends, we write with the hope that you are faring as well as you can during these difficult days and weeks.
Read MoreLeague awards Mardy Murie Lifetime Achievement Award
Tom Campion (center) with writer and climate activist Maia Wikler (left) and artist Monica Hernandez (right). (Alaska Wilderness League) We were thrilled on November 12, 2019, to honor a great conservation advocate, philanthropist and political operative, and a true Alaska conservation hero, Tom Campion, with our first ever Mardy Murie Lifetime Achievement Award.
Read MoreTrump’s Push To Drill In The Arctic Is Meeting Fierce Opposition
This piece from Alaska Wilderness League’s executive director Adam Kolton originally appeared on Truthout.
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