by Ben Boettger | Jun 25, 2025 | Energy & Alaska
Read the Full Report A collaboration between the University of Washington Center for Environmental Health Equity, Alaska Public Interest Research Group, Native Movement, and Cook Inletkeeper. Alaskans – especially low-income, rural, and Indigenous communities...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Jun 18, 2025 | Mining, West Su Access Road
The proposed West Su Industrial Access Road, a 100+ mile road built with public funds that would open up a new mining district west of the Susitna Valley, garnered attention from Alaskan lawmakers during this spring’s legislative session. By and large, the legislature...
by Ben Boettger | Jun 18, 2025 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government
Our two senators are well aware that “Alaska is different.” But as Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan consider their stances on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they should remember that the economic incentives shaping Alaska’s energy infrastructure are,...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Jun 12, 2025 | Belugas, Johnson Tract Mine
Cook Inletkeeper has joined a lawsuit to stop the Johnson Tract Gold Mine — an industrial project that threatens one of Alaska’s last wild coastal ecosystems. Last week, Inletkeeper joined the Center for Biological Diversity, the Chickaloon Village Traditional...
by Ben Boettger | Jun 2, 2025 | Energy & Alaska
The Su Dam isn’t the way to energy independence – why is it coming up now? Electric cooperatives are run by leaders elected by their member-owners – that is, everyone who pays an electric bill. These boards are meant to vote on the direction of the co-op and to...
