Inside Kodiak's crab standoff Crews from more than 100 boats say they're staying at the docks until processors offer them a higher price. But experts say the fishermen are facing global market forces that are unlikely to budge.
Alaska, long a resource exporter, now wants to profit by leaving timber uncut and pumping carbon underground Gov. Mike Dunleavy, in an interview, said he doesn't accept that carbon emissions cause climate change. But he still wants the state to benefit from markets that have arisen to address the problem.
Two companies' dispute over access to Alaska's next big oil development is now headed to court ConocoPhillips has sued Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's administration to block a state-issued permit that grants a competing company access to its new Pikka project, over Conoco-built roads.
Warming waters, not bycatch, are driving Bering Sea salmon and crab crashes. But Alaska’s fishing industry is barely talking about it. Advocates say that seafood businesses, trade groups and fishermen need to take more action to advocate for lower carbon emissions, or risk continued catastrophic declines in their harvests.
Climate change and a looming gas crunch are turning the heat up on Alaska utilities. Are they up to the challenge? Clean energy advocates are increasingly criticizing Anchorage's electric utility for doing business behind closed doors. I went to a board meeting to see for myself — and was exiled from the room.
Quick take: Is global warming driving the Anchorage snowpocalypse? I wanted to know, so I asked two climatologists. The answer: It's complicated.
With leases suspended, Alaska agency wants $6 million more for Arctic Refuge drilling campaign Alaska's economic development agency says it needs the money for next year's permitting, legal support and lease payments — though the Biden administration says the payments aren't due.