Alaskans and others tracking America’s stance toward the Arctic are waiting for details of President Trump’s new policy.
Arctic
Trump administration plans offshore oil leasing in Alaska’s ‘High Arctic’
A new multiyear offshore program, to be unveiled soon, will include a reconfigured Arctic area where future lease sales will be held, the Department of the Interior says.
Alaska wins lawsuit that could open Arctic refuge to oil exploration
A federal judge has reversed a Biden administration decision that suspended oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Alaska hunters, researchers say whales and fish are changing their migration patterns in the warming climate
Fishermen, hunters and researchers gathered at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage in January to discuss how several fish species and marine animals are changing their migration patterns in the warming climate.
Ambler Road project remains in limbo after Army Corps of Engineers waited months to revoke permits
The Pentagon did not give the Army Corps of Engineers a directive to revoke the road’s permitting until five days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Biden’s Interior Department, as a last act, proposes subsistence protection in NPR-A
It’s not clear any of the new management guidance for the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska will survive the transition to the new administration. Its focus is resource development.