ACLU senior counsel Susan Orlansky says the justices’ decision outlines how the state’s regulations potentially fall afoul of the U.S. Constitution on free speech and due process grounds.
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In lawsuit, groups ask that ‘Roadless Rule’ protections be put back in place for the Tongass
A coalition including environmental groups, tribes and fishermen filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to restore Roadless Rule protections to 9 million acres of Tongass National Forest.
Researchers: No cruise ships in 2020 gave Glacier Bay’s whales ‘room to roam’
The cancellation of this year’s cruise ship season has been a boon for marine mammals in one of Alaska’s most protected destinations. Federal scientists say humpback whales are enjoying the relative calm in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
Coastal lawmakers pan Dunleavy’s ferry budget proposal
Gov. Dunleavy’s proposed budget again has less funding than what’s historically appropriated for the ferries. Kodiak Rep. Louise Stutes said the governor “apparently didn’t hear the outcry of people in support of the marine highway system.”
After punishing rains, National Weather Service ‘not seeing anything that’s too far out of the normal’ this week
The National Weather Service the next weather system isn’t likely to bring the kinds of heavy rainfall and high winds that brought destructive landslides and flooding last week.
Feds reach agreement with Colorado company to seal off Tongass uranium mine
The Cold War-era Ross-Adams Mine hasn’t produced uranium for nearly 50 years, and state regulators have been working to have the radioactive site on Prince of Wales Island cleaned up since the 1990s.