Alaska Action Alerts

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Current Alerts

Protect our largest public land: the Western Arctic
It's a mouthful but the BLM just released a new draft for the Western Arctic: National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (IAP/EIS).

Time and time again: Protect Izembek Wilderness!
One of the world's most critically-important resting places for migrating birds is found in the cold-water lagoons and internationally significant wetlands of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge on the Alaskan Peninsula.

Alaska Chapter Executive Committee candidate statements

Protect us from dirty coal ash

Stop DIRTY Coal
The State of Alaska and Golden Valley Electric Association are trying to open a coal plant with a misnomer. We cannot let more dirty coal enter our air.

Keep the Arctic Refuge coastal plain wild!
The US Fish and Wildlife Service have just released their draft "Comprehensive Conservation Plan" for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There are alternatives recommending wilderness (permanent protection) for the coastal plain, and we need to make it happen!

Keep Shell and ConocoPhillips out of the Arctic Ocean
There is an EPA comment period regarding Clean Air permits needed for Shell's Kulluk offshore drilling rig and ConocoPhillips to drill in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

Rockets on the Refuges: Public Hearings
NASA is holding scoping meetings in advance of preparing an Environmental Impact Statement on the program that drops 12,000 pound missiles on the Arctic and Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuges as well as the White Mountain National Recreation Area and Native tribal lands.

Bold Visions for Wilderness
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is creating a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. There is a new online forum for you to put your ideas and comments out there. There is a draft plan out from the US Fish and Wildlife Service on how it will manage our nation's wildlife refuges. You have an opportunity to comment online in an interactive way never used before!

Chapter Executive Committee Candidate Statements
Deadline for return of ballots extended to January 11, 2011