The Political Voice for the Environment
Green groups reap benefits from record grant-giving year
August 16, 2010 - Alaska's environmental movement is alive and well, at least financially. The Alaska Conservation Foundation on Monday announced a record-breaking year in terms of the money it was able to dole out to groups pursing environmental causes.
Native corporation joins effort to stop Pebble mine project
August 13, 2010 - LETTER TO THE EPA: Natives ask for prohibition on using state land at Kvichak, Nushagak headwaters.
Fishermen, tribes near Pebble condemn Young bill
August 10, 2010 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Commercial fishermen and tribes are condemning a bill they say would cripple the authority of a federal agency to protect the environment near a huge copper and gold mine proposed for southwest Alaska.
Geothermal energy heats up in King Salmon
August 09, 2010 - Nearly 300 miles south of Anchorage sits a small community where tribal members are descendants of villagers forced to flee an erupting volcano. Nearly a century after those ancestors were chased away, King Salmon is the home base for an energy discovery tapping into the same forces that caused Mount Katmai to blow in 1912.
Groups request to weigh in on whale lawsuit
August 04, 2010 - ANCHORAGE - Conservation groups filed a request Wednesday to challenge the state in its lawsuit seeking to overturn the listing of beluga whales off Alaska's largest city as endangered.
EPA chief hears mine opponents at Bristol Bay meeting
August 04, 2010 - DILLINGHAM -- One by one, representatives of a dozen Southwest Alaska communities stood to tell the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of the threat they feel the massive Pebble mine prospect would pose to their way of life.
Fishery closures needed for sea lions, scientists say
August 03, 2010 - ANCHORAGE - Atka mackerel and Pacific cod fisheries in western Alaska should close so that endangered sea lions can get enough to eat, government scientists said Monday.
New building to get Juneau's first green roof
August 01, 2010 - JUNEAU, Alaska — A transportation center under construction in downtown Juneau is getting a first for the city: a green, living roof.
Open season on gas pipeline closing
July 30, 2010 - JUNEAU – Alaskans should know by the end of the day Friday whether there was any interest in building a major natural gas pipeline in the state.
