Walker said the state government risks spending all of its savings if it denies there’s a problem and hopes for oil prices to rise.
Arctic
Newtok asks: Can the U.S. deal with slow-motion climate disasters?
Newtok is requesting a federal disaster declaration to deal with ongoing erosion and thawing permafrost. The village estimates it has just three years before it must be completely abandoned.
At hacking hearing, Sullivan steers clear of Russia
In the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has been a consistent voice warning about the Russian threat, particularly when it comes to Russia’s military build-up in the Arctic. At a hearing on cyber-hacking Thursday, Sullivan focused on hacking by other countries and didn’t discuss Russia at all.
Alaska’s congressional leaders renew push to allow ANWR drilling
U.S. Senators. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have introduced a bill to open up a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling.
The feds are finally paying to move a village, but it’s not in Alaska
This year, for the first time, the federal government made tens of millions of dollars available to relocate a small Native village threatened by climate change. But that village is in Louisiana, not Alaska.
Obama bans future oil leases in much of Arctic, Atlantic
President Barack Obama has designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing.