Four environmental groups lost their bid to resurrect legal challenges to federal oil and gas lease sales on 80,000 acres in the Alaska National Petroleum
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Global Warming Estimates Used to Protect Seals
The potential for global warming to create an imminent loss of sea ice was sufficient grounds to list the Pacific bearded seal as a endangered,
Climate Change Matters in Polar Bear Habitat
In a defeat for the oil and gas industry, a federal appeals court said climate change may be considered in Alaskan polar bear habitat designations
Alaska Polar Bear Habitat Questioned
Federal environmental regulators and conservation groups fought Tuesday to win reinstatement of critical polar bear habitat designations on Alaska’s North Slope after a federal judge
Shell Oil Spill Response Plan OK’d
Shell Oil’s oil spill response plans for leases in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas on Alaska’s Arctic coast pass muster, a federal appeals court held
Alaska Loses Round in Gay Marriage Appeal
Supporters of Alaska’s ban on same-sex marriage failed to win a single vote among 29 appellate judges to hold a full 11-judge hearing to resurrect
