Getting this approval helps make the project less risky for investors and partners to consider — because it defines the environmental impacts.
Alaska's Energy Desk
What’s the air quality like in Southeast Alaska without cruise ships? Scientists hope to find out this summer.
The COVID-19 pandemic has the unintended result of providing researchers with something like a control experiment.
Environmental watchdogs are raising alarms over Pebble and other projects. But is anyone listening?
Environmentalists say the Trump administration is taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to advance Pebble as well as other Alaska projects while the public and the press are distracted.
More oil can flow from Alaska’s North Slope as global demand creeps back
The operator of the trans-Alaska pipeline is allowing oil companies to send more crude from the North Slope to Valdez as demand creeps back and economies reopen.
Marine heatwaves will cripple salmon, cod and pollock at twice the rate previously predicted, study says
As these heatwaves continue, they may have far more devastating implications to fisheries than previously predicted.
Y-K Delta tribes protest Donlin Gold in letter to mining company Novagold
Ten tribes have sent a letter protesting the proposed Donlin Gold mine to the two companies trying to build it in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.