Murkowski says she is trying to restore some resilience funding for Alaska villages

Five months after the Trump administration canceled a series of environmental grants for Alaska, including an erosion-control ...

The agency's mission to protect health and the environment is at risk without a federal budget.

“Nobody will be holding polluters accountable for what they dump into the air we breathe, in the water we drink while EPA is shut down,” said Symons, now a senior adviser to the Environmental ...

EPA's job is to protect America's air, water and land. Here's how a shutdown affects that effort

“Nobody will be holding polluters accountable for what they dump into the air we breathe, in the water we drink while EPA is shut down,” said Symons, now a senior adviser to the Environmental ...

Trump administration opens more land for coal mining, offers $625M to boost coal-fired power plants

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants as ...
Anchorage Daily News

Congressional delegation pledges support as FEMA joins Western Alaska storm response

A day after Gov. Mike Dunleavy asked President Donald Trump to approve a major disaster declaration for Western Alaska to ...

America Confronts Its Next Great Energy Crisis: Rare Earth Minerals

America's heavy reliance on imports of its rare earth minerals via supply chains controlled by China could result in the most ...
Chicago Tribune

EPA’s job is to protect America’s air, water and land. Here’s how a shutdown affects that effort

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency was already reeling from massive stuff cuts and dramatic shifts in priority and policy. A government shutdown raises new questions about how it can ...
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Letters to the Editor: Climate change generally isn't a high-priority issue for voters. It should be

To the editor: Underlying this article is the Trump administration's contemptuous dismissal of overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change and its impact on our planet and our own health ...
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EPA's job is to protect America's air, water and land. Here's how US shutdown affects that effort

Its first administrator, William D Ruckelshaus, spoke of the need for an "environmental ethic" in his first speech. "Each of us must begin ... Earlier this year, Trump's new EPA chief Lee Zeldin ...