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Alas, Alaska Alaska legislature looking for polar-bear skeptics		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 07 May 2008 The Alaska legislature wants to use $2 million in state money to fund an "academic based" conference to highlight the views of scientists who don't think the polar bear should be put on the endangered-species list. The U.S. Interior Department must make a decision by May 15 on whether polar bears are a threatened or endangered species, and "[w]e want to have the money to hire scientis ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, dumbassery , endangered species, news, polar bears, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Polar bears are ... doing great? So say Big Oil-friendly opponents of protecting them	Miles Grant	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, endangered species, energy, natural gas, oil, shenanigans, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

To Explore Strange New Worlds Polar bear ventures far inland, shot to death		31 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:28 PM on 31 Mar 2008 Having boldly gone where no polar bear has gone before, a 3-year-old female polar bear was shot dead 250 miles inland in Fort Yukon, Alaska, last week. Hunters who thought they were tracking a grizzly bear shot the polar bear in what they say was self-defense; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the shooting. Biologists don't know why the polar bear was so far inland. Any ...
Topics: Alaska, news, wildlife (all these topics)

An Offer We Can't Refuge Proposed land swap would allow drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge		26 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:54 AM on 26 Mar 2008 Photo: usgs.gov The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a land swap with a Native-owned energy company that would open up about 200,000 acres of Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Alaska to oil and gas drilling. Under the pending deal, the energy company would trade about 150,000 acres of its nearby land for 110,000 acres of what it believes is more ...
Topics: Alaska, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Drill Team Alaska senators introduce legislation to open Arctic Refuge to drilling		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:22 PM on 13 Mar 2008 Photo: Madhav Pai The push to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is back on. Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Ted Stevens have introduced legislation that would allow drilling in the Refuge if oil should hit $125 a barrel for five straight days. (For those keeping track at home, oil prices Thursday hit a record high of $111 a barrel.) "I can't believe that they would ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, legislation, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

John McCain and Exxon Valdez Mr. Straight Talk voted against requiring double-hulled tankers after the biggest oil spill	David Roberts	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, business, energy, litigation, oil, water pollution (all these topics)

Movers and Fist-Shakers Alaskan village sues Big Fossil Fuel over link to climate change		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:35 AM on 27 Feb 2008 The tiny village of Kivalina, built on a barrier reef in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against 24 oil, coal, and power companies, alleging that Big Fossil Fuel's greenhouse-gas emissions are contributing to the climate-change-caused coastal erosion that threatens the village's very existence. Kivalina says that the companies should pay for its relocation. The ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Big Oil, climate, climate change impacts, coal, fossil fuels, litigation, news (all these topics)

The Damages Done Exxon will try to convince Supreme Court it's paid enough for oil spill		26 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 9:58 AM on 26 Feb 2008 On Wednesday, Exxon Mobil Corp. will try to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that it should not have to pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages to Alaskan folk affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Exxon, which earlier this month posted an annual profit of $40.6 billion, will argue that the $3.4 billion or so that it's paid in cleanup costs and other fines should totally ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, news, oil, water pollution (all these topics)

Cyanide Cynthia's flack attack Mining behemoth responds to Gristmill	Glenn Hurowitz	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, fishing, mining, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Shelling It Out Sell-off of oil leases in polar-bear habitat brings record bidding		07 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 8:54 AM on 07 Feb 2008 The Bush administration's sell-off of leases for oil and gas drilling in Alaska's polar-bear-harboring Chukchi Sea raised a lot of controversy -- and a lot of moola. The sale brought in a record $2.66 billion in bidding, well beyond the $67 million the feds had expected and budgeted for. Royal Dutch Shell was the big winner, with the highest bid for a single tract; the polar bear, ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Impermafrost Sobering dispatches from Alaska	Erik Hoffner	06 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, art, books, climate, wildlife (all these topics)

Missing in Auction Chukchi Sea oil lease auction goes ahead, polar-bear concerns ignored		06 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 6:17 AM on 06 Feb 2008 The U.S. Interior Department is auctioning off oil and gas leases on Wednesday to drill in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, despite opposition from environmentalists and some Democrats in Congress concerned about the impact on polar bears. The Chukchi Sea, off Alaska's northern coast, is prime polar-bear habitat and advocates worry that already-stressed bear populations will fare even ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, news, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Bear With Us Green groups sue over delay in polar-bear endangered-species decision		01 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 9:13 AM on 01 Feb 2008 Environmental and native groups have sued -- as they are wont to do -- in an attempt to force the Interior Department to rethink its decision to sell oil and gas leases in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, which is prime polar bear habitat. The lease sale by the department's Minerals Management Service is scheduled to go ahead next week; meanwhile, another agency in the department, the Fish a ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, endangered species, energy, litigation, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Sub Woofer Iditarod sled dog race forced to change starting point		10 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:47 PM on 10 Jan 2008 The famous Iditarod sled dog race is undergoing permanent changes as organizers cope with urban sprawl and a warming climate. For the ceremonial start to the competition on Mar. 1, racers will travel 11 miles instead of the traditional 18 miles. The race itself will kick off Mar. 2 from Willow, Alaska, 30 miles north of the traditional starting town of Wasilla. Says Stan Hooley of the Iditarod Tra ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, news, placemaking, sports, sprawl (all these topics)

Crony Loves Chukchi Bush administration will offer oil leases in prime polar-bear habitat		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:50 PM on 02 Jan 2008 The U.S. Interior Department's Minerals Management Service plans to offer offshore oil and gas drilling rights to 29.7 million acres of Alaska's Chukchi Sea. The area is home to one of two U.S. polar bear populations; interestingly enough, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- also a part of the Interior Department -- is within days of deciding whether to list the polar bea ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, endangered species, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Pebble Without a Cause? Controversial Alaska gold mine tiptoes forward		26 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 26 Dec 2007 If Alaska's proposed Pebble Gold Mine goes forward, it could be North America's largest mine. It would necessitate the construction of the biggest dam in the world -- right at the headwaters of the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. Environmentalists and commercial fishers are up in arms about the project; mining companies Northern Dynasty Minerals and Anglo-American are beginning explor ...
Topics: Alaska, dams, fishing, mining, news (all these topics)

Cyanide Cynthia, world's biggest Scrooge Mining CEO loves gold, hates fish	Glenn Hurowitz	26 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, business, dams, fishing, mining, wildlife (all these topics)

What Juneau About That? Alaska oil-tax bribery scandal widens, may include members of Congress		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:42 PM on 12 Nov 2007 For the last year or so, ugly truths about Alaskan politics have been oozing into the limelight as state and federal officials unravel a scandal involving cash bribes, an oil tax, bowling scores, and sleeping pills. Yes, you heard us right: an oil tax! The founder of an oil-field services company pled guilty this spring to bribery and conspiracy; he's drug several stat ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, insanity, news, politics, state politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

As a matter of fact you can't take your eyes off these people Oil companies target the fragile Arctic continental shelf for oil drilling	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, energy, oceans, oil, oil and gas drilling, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Murkowski condemns Rush to judgment Alaska Senator defends young constituent against Limbaugh's attacks	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, politics (all these topics)

Palin Comparison Alaska joins regional climate initiative		17 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:26 PM on 17 Sep 2007 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has created a climate-change committee and joined her state with the cool kids at the Western Climate Initiative. From the Archives Gene Cool. DNA testing helps to settle claims of chemical exposure. Gee Biz. Industry to Bush administration: "Please regulate me". The Investor Class Owns the Means of Reduction. New York state investigates powe ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, news, politics (all these topics)

Eh ...	David Roberts	09 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, wildlife (all these topics)

Ted Stevens, climatologist Alaskan senator invents new theory of global warming	Kit Stolz	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change skepticism, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Do They Just Not Caribou? BLM offers yet another plan for drilling on Alaska's sensitive North Slope		22 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Do They Just Not Caribou? BLM offers yet another plan for drilling on Alaska's sensitive North Slope In 1923, U.S. President Warren G. Harding designated 23 million acres on Alaska's North Slope as a national petroleum reserve. The ecologically sensitive northeast corner of the reserve -- which includes pristine Lake Teshekpuk and is vital habitat for breeding caribou and migrating bi ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Do they just not caribou? BLM offers yet another plan for drilling on Alaska's sensitive North Slope	Grist	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

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