Trump administration eases endangered species rules Ben Lefebvre, Politico, August 12, 2019 The Trump administration announced on Monday it would change how it implements the Endangered Species Act, weakening protections that environmentalists say violate the law and make it easier for oil companies, real estate interests and the agriculture industry to develop land inhabited by vulnerable wildlife. The revisions spearheaded … read more
Trump’s ANWR push: Will it really yield much oil? Heather Richards, E&E News, August 12, 2019 ANWR’s coastal plain also lies in a straight line between successful discoveries in Alaska and successful discoveries in Canada. In the mid-1980s, a group of companies paid for two-dimensional seismic data to map the region’s subsurface potential, revealing a complex spectrum of possible hydrocarbon locations, said … read more
New Izembek land swap? New lawsuit, too. Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media, August 7, 2019 The Wilderness Society and eight other environmental groups have filed a new lawsuit to block a road in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. For nearby King Cove, it’s the latest in a long series of legal and political hurdles, dating back decades. The lawsuit challenges a land … read more
