From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): A group of investors representing $2.5 TRILLION in assets took a stand against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! They urged oil companies and banks to not support drilling in this wildlife nursery. … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Of course they chose this day to take their next step towards leasing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil development: the anniversary of Deepwater Horizon, the largest environmental disaster in American history with 210 … Continued
From the Sierra Club (https://www.sierraclub.org/): Drilling in the Arctic is not an empty threat: This week, Interior Department officials told two northern Alaska communities that they’ll soon launch the process to lease lands to oil drillers in the Arctic National … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): The Trump administration just released an outrageous proposal to open nearly all public coastal waters, including the Arctic, to oil drilling. Ignoring the growing risks of climate disaster, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s five-year Outer … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Inclusion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the tax bill was a blow to us all. And, over the last two weeks, the tax bill and its sneaky Arctic Refuge provisions have been … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-12-18/environment/final-tax-bill-called-a-blow-to-environment/a60689-1 December 18, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window The final tax bill keeps a provision opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) HARRISBURG, … Continued
This is an op-ed submitted to the Harrisburg Patriot News with request for publication. As people of faith concerned for our vulnerable neighbors, we are saddened and deeply troubled by the passage of tax legislation that benefits highly profitable corporations … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Your help is needed NOW! The harmful Senate and House tax bills are now in conference to seek agreement on a common bill that can pass in both houses. We are seeking to keep … Continued
From Creation Justice Ministries (http://www.creationjustice.org/): Right now, Alaska Native Gwich’in leaders are meeting with as many members of Congress as they can. They are in a race against time to get Arctic oil drilling provisions out of the projected revenue … Continued
Published on August 7 on PennLive: http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2017/08/pa_benefits_from_the_arctic_na.html By Sandra Strauss The U.S. House Budget Committee followed President Trump’s lead and introduced its version of a 2018 federal budget that includes a plan to collect revenues from drilling in the Arctic … Continued