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Alaska political leaders hope to see Trump undo restrictions on oil drilling

President-elect Trump vows to expand U.S. oil drilling, a win for Alaska leaders seeking to revive production.

FILE - Visitors to Point Woronzof Park watch the sun set over Cook Inlet and Mount Susitna, on June 7, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, has suspended the lone lease stemming from a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Cook Inlet basin after finding problems with the environmental review the sale was based on. (AP Photo/Dan Joling, File)
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US judge suspends Alaska Cook Inlet lease, pending additional environmental review

JUNEAU, Alaska — An environmental review underpinning a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts...

FILE - In this undated file photo the Trans-Alaska pipeline and pump station north of Fairbanks, Alaska is shown. Environmental groups have petitioned the U.S. Department of Interior to review climate impacts related to the decades-old trans-Alaska pipeline system. They're also asking the federal government to develop a plan for a "managed phasedown" of the 800-mile pipeline, which is Alaska's economic lifeline. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)
InfrastructureNewsOilPoliticsRegulations

Environmentalists urge US to plan ‘phasedown’ of key Alaska oil pipeline

'Woefully outdated' environmental analysis criticised by activists who hope to see decades-old project retired after Biden administration approves new oil project.

In this undated photo provided by the United States Geological Survey, permafrost forms a grid-like pattern in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, managed by the Bureau of Land Management on Alaska's North Slope. (David W. Houseknecht/United States Geological Survey via AP)
ClimateEnvironmentFuelMiningNewsPolitics

Biden government restricts oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s petroleum reserve

The restrictions are being put in place to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm

NewsResiliencyWeather

10 years after the deadliest US landslide, climate change is increasing the danger

OSO, Wash. (AP) — After the mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history, Jessica...

NewsResiliencyWeather

A southeast Alaska community wrestles with a deadly landslide’s impact

WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Jamie Roberts and her husband felt lucky when they found an A-frame cabin on forest-draped Wrangell Island in southeast...

NewsOilPolitics

Appeals court weighs whether to let stand Biden’s approval of Willow oil project in Alaska

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An appeals court panel is deciding whether to let stand the Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil...

EnvironmentNewsResiliencyWeather

It’s so cold and snowy in Alaska that fuel oil is thickening and roofs are collapsing

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Much of Alaska has plunged into a deep freeze, with temperatures well below zero. Anchorage has seen some of...

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