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EPA · AlaskaSunlight reflects off solar panels lining the student recreation building at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus on June 2, 2018. More solar arrays are set to be built with grant money totaling about $125 million that was awarded to two Alaska projects by the Environmental Protection Agency. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)Alaska is getting an infusion of nearly $125 million to build and expand solar energy projects, part of a nationa…See the Story
Alaska projects win nearly $125 million in EPA’s national Solar for All grant competition • Alaska Beacon
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Senate · AlaskaSen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, leaves the Alaska Senate chambers on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)The Alaska Senate voted unanimously on Monday to make it easier for groups of Alaskans to invest in wind and solar power projects, sending the idea to the state House for further work. Senate Bill 152, from Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, allows Alaskans to jointly invest in a renewable power project, and i…See the Story
On Earth Day, Alaska Senate passes green-billing legislation, revised hunting license standards • Alaska Beacon
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Alaska · AlaskaWhite Mountain Industrial School's first graduating class is seen in a 1928 photo. (Alaska State Libraries collection)There was only one purpose for the boarding school system in Alaska. In fact, there was only one purpose for the Bureau of Indian Affairs educational program in America. It was all about white power. White supremacy. Assimilate the savage Natives by force. The Inupiat people of our Bering Straits region, first subjugated by the S…See the Story
BIA boarding schools' devastating legacy continues to echo in Alaska • Alaska Beacon
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Alaska · AlaskaRep. George Rauscher, R-Sutton, speaks during a news conference on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at the Alaska State Capitol. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)A bill passed Thursday by the Alaska House of Representatives would affirm a tough hurdle for top-level environmental protections on rivers and lakes in the state. House Bill 95, passed on a 21-18 vote, would require that labeling a river or lake a “Tier III” waterway requires legislative a…See the Story
House approves tougher route for environmental protections on Alaska rivers, lakes • Alaska Beacon
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North Carolina · North CarolinaEnvironmental Protection Administrator Michael Regan speaks at a news conference on Aug. 31, 2023, in Anchorage. On Friday, Regan said an agency action announced on Friday would allow the EPA to address more contaminated sites nationally. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)Industries that discharge toxic PFOA and PFOS compounds into the environment will now be held legally and financially responsible for the contamination, according to a final…See the Story
Polluters must pay to clean up areas contaminated with PFOA, PFOS • Alaska Beacon
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Alaska · AlaskaThe “Newtok Mothers” assembled as a panel at the Arctic Encounter Symposium on April 11, 2024, discuss the progress and challenges as village residents move from the eroding and thawing old site to a new village site called Mertarvik. Photographs showing deteriorating conditions in Newtok are displayed on a screen as the women speak at the event, held at Anchorage’s Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) The Yup’ik vi…See the Story
Relocation of eroding Alaska Native village seen as a test case for other threatened communities
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Alaska · AlaskaA panel on "Northern Indigenous Leadership: Our Future, Our Vision for Success," is held at the Arctic Encounter Symposium on April 10, 2024, in Anchorage. (Photo by Joaqlin Estus/ICT)ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Indigenous leaders want a seat at the table and to be seen and heard. “Nothing about us without us.” That’s the message Indigenous leaders shared at an Arctic symposium that organizers say brought in participants from 30 countries. Six Inupiaq, …See the Story
Alaska Native vision for the future: Self determination • Alaska Beacon
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Joe Biden · AlaskaA group of caribou from the Western Arctic Herd swim across the Kobuk River during fall migration in 2017. Much of the debate over the Ambler road and the associated mine development concern impacts to the herd, one of the largest in North America. The Biden administration has determined that the road would cause unaccepable harm to caribou and salmon habitat, among other resources. (Photo by Matt Cameron/National Park Service)Citing what they c…See the Story
Biden administration rejection of Ambler road project both panned and celebrated in Alaska • Alaska Beacon
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