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This oil platform stopped pumping 30 years ago. Alaska still won’t make the owner tear it down

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Removing all the offshore oil infrastructure from Cook Inlet could cost $1 billion. But some platforms have sat idle for decades, as inspectors say they're in an "advanced state of disrepair."
Environment

An Alaska Olympian went to D.C. to testify on climate change. Then a senator dredged up four-year-old tweets

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Louisiana Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy subjected Anchorage cross-country skier Gus Schumacher to a pop quiz about climate science in an exchange that went viral in conservative circles.
News

AIDEA signs new consulting contracts, two with ex-Dunleavy aides, paying up to $295/hour

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This story is republished from Northern Journal, which depends on subscriber support. Please consider subscribing. Alaska’s state-owned economic development agency has retained four consultants aimed at boosting its...
Economy

New grant could revolutionize home heating and power generation for Northwest Alaska

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The 850 heat pumps represent one for “every residence” in the villages of Ambler, Buckland, Deering, Kiana, Kivalina, Kobuk, Noatak, Noorvik, Selawik and Shungnak.
Environment

New salmon study adds to evidence that pink salmon could be crowding out sockeye

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Big energy news for the Northwest Arctic Borough, while a new study adds to the pile of evidence suggesting that booming, hatchery-boosted pink salmon populations could be harming wild sockeye.
Anchorage

Can jet-setting ski racers be climate activists? Anchorage athlete leans into ‘imperfect advocacy.’

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Climate change poses an existential threat to cross-country skiing. But it's hard to talk about for some top athletes, who fear being accused of hypocrisy because of their travel-intensive lifestyles.
Oil & Gas

Alaska lawmaker’s bid to revive stalled green energy policy defines coal as ‘clean’

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Sutton Republican Rep. George Rauscher says he wants to encourage innovation without leaving fossil fuels behind. But one critic is blasting his new bill as a “jumbled mess.”
Environment

Green energy advocates say Anchorage electric utility is ‘freezing out’ its efforts to draft a gas-saving price structure

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This story is republished from Northern Journal, which depends on subscriber support. Please consider subscribing. A green power advocacy group says Anchorage’s electric utility is thwarting its...
News

Political pressure builds as state-led Alaska LNG project goes another year without a deal

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This story is republished from Northern Journal, which depends on subscriber support. Please consider subscribing. Political pressure is building on Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s...
Environment

Alaska senator vows to kill renewables bill as energy debate heats up in Juneau

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Boosters say the legislation would give clear guidance to the state’s electric utilities to start shifting to wind and solar power amid a shortage of the locally produced natural gas that currently powers their plants. 
Environment

Tribes say Biden administration failed to consult on grant to graphite mine

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Several leaders from the tribal governments have previously voiced concerns about the proposed graphite mine, which would sit next to an estuary that supports salmon and other species that residents of the region depend on for subsistence.
News

Monthly premiums for health insurance on the federal marketplace will rise 16% in Alaska next year

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The year-to-year increase in Alaska’s individual market is among the highest in the nation, in a state that already has some of the nation’s steepest health care costs.
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