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Riki-Tikki-Savvy Author and oil-spill expert Riki Ott answers Grist's questions		14 Mar 2005	InterActivist
Riki Ott. What work do you do? What's your job title? For the past seven years -- 1998 to 2004 -- I researched and wrote a book, Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Now I'm an author/activist/scientist on book tour. Titles: Well, I have been bestowed numerous titles by others. For example, "pain in the ass" by Alyeska, the consortium that operates and (sup ...
Topics: Alaska, business, energy, InterActivist, interview, oil, politics (all these topics)

That's Trawl, Folks Bottom-trawling ban proposed for sensitive Alaskan waters		14 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
That's Trawl, Folks Bottom-trawling ban proposed for sensitive Alaskan waters Paving the way for the largest fishing ban of its kind, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously last Thursday to ban bottom trawling on more than half a million square miles of ocean near Alaska's Aleutian Islands -- an area more than twice the size of California. Bottom trawling involves dragging weighted nets along the ...
Topics: Alaska, marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

Hope Against Slope Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling		24 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Hope Against Slope Bush admin poised to open sensitive Alaska North Slope land to drilling The Bush administration plans to open to drilling more than 400,000 acres of Alaska's North Slope thought to be vital to migratory birds and caribou, after the Bureau of Land Management determined that drilling can be done with "minimum impact" on wildlife. Interior Secretary Gale Nort ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, oil, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out ConocoPhillips withdraws from Arctic Refuge lobbying group		06 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out ConocoPhillips withdraws from Arctic Refuge lobbying group ConocoPhillips, the third-largest energy company in the U.S., has withdrawn from Arctic Power, a lobbying group the sole purpose of which is to convince Congress to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The company is playing down what it calls "merely a business decision," saying its intent is to ...
Topics: Alaska, business, energy, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

Downright Unalaskan Shipwreck oil spill in Alaskan waters threatens wildlife refuge		10 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Downright Unalaskan Shipwreck oil spill in Alaskan waters threatens wildlife refuge A cargo ship that ran aground Wednesday on the shore of Unalaska Island, 800 miles southwest of Anchorage, has begun to leak fuel into sensitive wildlife habitat. After an unsuccessful search for lost crew members, officials have begun to survey the damage from the wreck; the freighter, which was loaded with soybeans and h ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, oil, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Baked Alaskans Global warming is destroying Eskimo villages		28 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Baked Alaskans Global warming is destroying Eskimo villages While debates over the "precautionary principle" and economic tradeoffs take place down in the cozy lower 48, global warming is entirely less abstract to Inupiaq Eskimos on the coast of Alaska. They're not so much worried about losing jobs as losing, well, their villages. The annual mean air temperature in Alaska has risen 4 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 30 years, ...
Topics: Alaska, climate (all these topics)

Another One Bytes the Slush Charles Wohlforth's The Whale and the Supercomputer compares views of climate change	Elizabeth Grossman	02 Jun 2004	Arts and Minds
In for the long haul. Photo: Charles Wohlforth. Out on the ice that forms the shores of the Arctic Ocean, the I�upiaq whalers of Barrow, Alaska, hauled in their catch, a bowhead whale that weighed more than 100,000 pounds. The entire village turned out to pull the enormous mammal ashore and butcher it. Sleds and snowmobiles were piled with maktak (ene ...
Topics: Alaska, climate (all these topics)

Barton Fink Big Recipient of Industry Money to Head House Energy Committee		20 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Barton Fink Big Recipient of Industry Money to Head House Energy Committee With Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) retiring at the end of this year, the plum leadership spot on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is poised to go to Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), a true friend of the energy industry if ever there was one. Barton has received more campaign contributions from the energy sector than ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, energy, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Put Down the Drills and Back Away Slowly Enviro Groups Sue to Stop Alaska Drilling		18 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Put Down the Drills and Back Away Slowly Enviro Groups Sue to Stop Alaska Drilling A coalition of seven environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop a plan to open 8.8 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to oil and gas development. The groups -- including t ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, politics, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics)

Parody on Parade An improbable plan would use Arctic Refuge drilling proceeds to fund transportation projects	Amanda Griscom	11 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Beltway insiders waited with bated breath yesterday to see if Sen. Peter Domenici (R-N.M.) would succeed in tacking his stalled-out energy bill onto the huge highway transportation bill now wending its way through Congress. The consensus from his Senate Republican colleagues? No deal. In need of refuge. Photo: FWS. But another cockamamie plan that would min ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Pombo Magic Unlikely Proposal Would Fund Transportation Through ANWR Drilling		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Alaska, Arctic, energy, mining and drilling, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

The Otter Limits DOI Proposes Adding Sea Otters to Endangered Species List		06 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
The Otter Limits DOI Proposes Adding Sea Otters to Endangered Species List The U.S. Department of the Interior yesterday proposed adding southwest Alaska's sea otters to the government's threatened species list, which would offer them protections under the Endangered Species Act. The sea otter population in southwest Alaska was robust as late as 1980, but since then has dropped precipitously, a declin ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Fish Stickers		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Fish Stickers Starting this fall, seafood sold in the U.S. will be labeled with information about where it was caught, the country where it was processed, and whether it was wild or farmed, thanks to a provision in a spending bill recently passed by Congress. Seafood will be the first food group subject to "country of origin" labeling, something the beef and pork industries have avoided through ...
Topics: Alaska, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life (all these topics)

Oily Residue Judge Imposes $4.5 Billion in Damages in Exxon Valdez Case		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Oily Residue Judge Imposes $4.5 Billion in Damages in Exxon Valdez Case A federal judge in Alaska on Wednesday imposed $4.5 billion in punitive damages on ExxonMobil Corp. for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill in Prince William Sound. The judgment marks t ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, marine life, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

You Know the Drill Bush Admin. Opens Nearly 9 Million Alaskan Acres to Oil Exploration		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
You Know the Drill Bush Admin. Opens Nearly 9 Million Alaskan Acres to Oil Exploration Interior Secretary Gale Norton approved a plan on Thursday that will open nearly 9 million acres of pristine land on Alaska's North Slope to oil exploration and drilling. She pledged that the exploration and production in the area, a section of the huge National Petroleum Reserve, would be done in an "e ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Zinc Positive Supreme Court Sides With EPA in Clean Air Case		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Zinc Positive Supreme Court Sides With EPA in Clean Air Case A narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the U.S. EPA has the authority to override state government decisions on what constitutes the "best available" anti-pollution technology. Enviros hailed the decision as a victory for clean air, while libertarian think tanks, a coali ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, West (all these topics)

Viscous Cycle In Ironic Twist, Thawing Tundra Causes Trouble for Alaska's Oil Industry		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Viscous Cycle In Ironic Twist, Thawing Tundra Causes Trouble for Alaska's Oil Industry Global warming -- brought about in part by the burning of fossil fuels -- has raised temperatures in Alaska and reduced the length of the "frozen season" during which oil-prospecting convoys are allowed to traverse the landscape. The past three decades have seen the season ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Sales Pitched Forest Service Cancels Timber Sales in Tongass		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Sales Pitched Forest Service Cancels Timber Sales in Tongass The U.S. Forest Service plans to cancel 20 timber sales in Alaska's Tongass National Forest -- not because it's dedicated to preserving old growth in the vast rainforest, but because the sales were sure to be money-losers for logging companies. Enviros are feeling vindicated by the development; they say it proves ...
Topics: Alaska, business, logging, politics, rainforests, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

The Grinch Who Stole Tongass Bush Reverses Logging Ban in Alaska's Tongass Forest		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Grinch Who Stole Tongass Bush Reverses Logging Ban in Alaska's Tongass Forest Doing their part for holiday spirit, the Bush administration announced just two days before Christmas that it is exempting Alaska's Tongass National Forest -- America's largest, and a longtime environmental battleground -- from a controversial Clinton-era ban on development in roadless areas o ...
Topics: Alaska, fishing, logging, marine life, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Jumping Ship at the EPA Environmental enforcers get out while the getting's good (and everything else is bad)	Amanda Griscom	07 Jan 2004	Muckraker
When John Suarez, the U.S. EPA's top enforcement official, resigned on Monday to take a job at a Wal-Mart division, he assured his colleagues and President Bush that the EPA has "been able to provide more compliance assistance to industry than ever before." The operative wording here, of course, is "assistance to industry," seeing as Suar ...
Topics: Alaska, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Spills and Chills Exxon Valdez Spill Continued to Cause Harm Years Later, Scientists Say		19 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Spills and Chills Exxon Valdez Spill Continued to Cause Harm Years Later, Scientists Say The Exxon Valdez oil spill has lived on in the minds of Alaskans, environmentalists, and people around the globe who were horrified and outraged by the widespread ecological destruction from the 1989 disaster. Now, it turns out that the spill has also lived on in the ecosystem, continuing to cause harm long after the official cleanup came t ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, marine life (all these topics)

NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling Try as it might, the Bush administration hasn't been able to get its hands on oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Perhaps to make itself feel better, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is forging ahead with plans to permit aggressive oil drilling in large swaths of ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

What, Exxon Unethical? You're Kidding Me! Academics Up in Arms Over Exxon-Funded Research		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
What, Exxon Unethical? You're Kidding Me! Academics Up in Arms Over Exxon-Funded Research When Exxon went to court in 1997 to appeal a $5.3 billion punitive damage verdict over the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, it cited articles from respected journals and law reviews that found that high punitive damages were bad for society or based on the unjust whims of quixotic juries. What the company ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, education, energy (all these topics)

Slope on a Rope Bush Administration Opens Alaskan Land to Drilling		21 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Slope on a Rope Bush Administration Opens Alaskan Land to Drilling Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge isn't on the oil-and-gas chopping block under the terms of the current behemoth energy bill, but the rest of the state isn't quite as lucky: The Bush administration will announce today that it plans to open 8.8 million acres of Ala ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Kill Bill! Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment		18 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Kill Bill! Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment After many weeks of pork-barrel politics conducted behind closed doors, Republican negotiators yesterday released a final version of the first big energy bill to emerge from Congress in more than a decade -- and it's a doozy. The package, which contains loads of subsidies for industry and loads of bad news for ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, energy, Midwest, nuclear power, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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