In Alaska
Trump Administration Moves to Roll Back Popular Roadless Rule, Threatening Alaska’s Tongass, Chugach, and National Forests Nationwide
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: August 27, 2025 Contact: Anja Semanco | 724-967-2777 | anja@alaskawild.org Trump Administration Moves to Roll Back Popular Roadless Rule, Threatening Alaska’s Tongass, Chugach, and National Forests Nationwide WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a sweeping attack on America’s public lands, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the start of a rulemaking process to dismantle the…
Read MoreAfter Failed Lease Sales, Alaska Again Gambles Public Money on Arctic Oil
ANCHORAGE, AK — In a quiet but deeply consequential move, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) has issued a formal request for proposals (RFP) to begin seismic testing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The solicitation—AIDEA26-004—invites bids from oilfield services companies to secure approval of exploratory testing during the next four years. A…
Read MoreInterior Withdraws Special Area Safeguards in NPR-A, Advancing Oil and Gas Agenda
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 7/28/25 Contact: Andy Moderow | 907-360-3622 | andy@alaskawild.org Today, in response to the announcement that Interior Withdraws Restrictive Special Area Policies in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to Advance Energy Development, Alaska Wilderness League released the following statement: “Today’s action is a direct attack on science and Traditional Knowledge, putting iconic Western Arctic landscapes…
Read MoreTrump Admin Announces Plan to Rescind Roadless Rule
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 6/23/2025 Contact: Anja Semanco | 724-967-2777 | anja@alaskawild.org In response to the Trump administration’s announcement about the nationwide Roadless Rule repeal, Andy Moderow, Senior Policy Director at Alaska Wilderness League, released the following statement: “A national repeal of the Roadless Rule is yet another attack, not only on Alaska, but on America’s public lands. Make no…
Read MoreTrump’s latest attack would open 82% of America’s largest block of public land to oil and gas leasing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 6/18/2025 Contact: Anja Semanco | 724-967-2777 | anja@alaskawild.org Trump’s latest attack would open 82% of America’s largest block of public land to oil and gas leasing The Trump administration’s proposed drilling rollback sacrifices caribou, climate, and Indigenous rights for fossil fuel expansion in Alaska. Washington, D.C. – Late in the day on June…
Read MoreThe Senate’s Budget Bill: A Massive Giveaway of Alaska’s Wildest Places
On June 11, 2025, the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee dropped the latest version of its budget bill and with it, a direct attack on public lands, climate progress, and our last wild places. This isn’t budgeting. It’s a giant giveaway to billionaires, Big Oil, and mining interests. And Alaska? Alaska is ground zero. …
Read MoreSenate Budget Targets Alaska’s Public Lands for Privatization
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 6/12/2025 Contact: Anja Semanco | 724-967-2777 | anja@alaskawild.org In response to the release of the Senate Budget Bill Energy and Natural Resources Provisions, Andy Moderow, Senior Director of Policy at Alaska Wilderness League, released the following statement: “Alaska’s public lands are still on the chopping block—not because it’s good policy, but because billionaires…
Read MoreRoadless Area Conservation Act Reintroduced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 6/11/2025 Contact: Anja Semanco | 724-967-2777 | anja@alaskawild.org Following the reintroduction of the of Roadless Area Conservation Act, Alex Cohen, Government Affairs Director at Alaska Wilderness League, released the following statement: “We’re thrilled to see the Roadless Area Conservation Act reintroduced at a time when Alaska’s public lands are once again in the…
Read MoreAlaska Under Attack: The Four-Front Fight for Our Public Lands
Let’s not sugarcoat it: Alaska is in the crosshairs. From the edges of the Arctic Ocean to the old-growth of the Tongass, the Trump administration is launching a full-scale attack on some of the wildest places left in America. They’re gutting protections, fast-tracking drilling and logging, and tossing aside Indigenous rights and climate science—all to…
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