The commissioner at the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation said the request posed “significant consequences for employment and resource development.”
Elizabeth Jenkins, Alaska's Energy Desk - Juneau
How much could electric vehicles put the brakes on Alaska’s oil economy?
As more people move away from gasoline powered cars, the big players in the oil industry have started to pay attention — and that includes Alaska.
Alaska could become climate change refuge for tropical fish
Researches from the University of Washington used 80 years of data to figure out how much warming fish could withstand. They discovered fish in the tropics are already living in water at the upper end of their threshold.
For third year in a row, Alaska seabirds wash up dead
About 800 dead birds have been discovered along the coast of the Bering Sea. Early lab results don’t point to disease — it appears the birds are starving to death.
Alaska teens ask state to stop delaying action on climate change
The teens hand delivered a petition to the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, asking for reduced carbon emissions and a strategy moving forward.
One man’s quest to find Glacier Bay’s ecological Holy Grail
William S. Cooper left directions from over 100 years ago. But rediscovering the lost research plots in Glacier Bay required an epic adventure.