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Alaska’s largest oil producer asks judge to block release of drilling info from NPR-A

Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 15:05
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Alaska’s largest oil producer is trying to block a state commission from publicly releasing information from exploratory drilling in the

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Alaska’s North Slope grapples with soaring COVID-19 infection rate, low vaccinations

Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 09:38
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Alaska’s North Slope has seen the highest coronavirus infection rates of any region in the state recently. And while the

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Biden’s pick for Interior secretary is Indigenous and a passionate foe of drilling in Arctic Refuge

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, December 18, 2020 at 11:33
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President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Congresswoman Deb Haaland to be the next secretary of Interior. The New Mexico Democrat is

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Arctic borough pulls out of deal with bankrupt Alaskan airline, reaffirms right to seize assets in emergency

Lex Treinen, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, April 17, 2020 at 15:59
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The North Slope Borough is backing out of a tentative deal to rent RavnAir Group’s Utqiagvik hangar and is reasserting

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Paleontologists discover Arctic’s first-ever lambeosaur fossil in Alaska

Priscilla Hwang, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 10:21
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Paleontologists have discovered the remains of the Arctic’s first-ever lambeosaur — a crested, duck-billed dinosaur — in Alaska’s North Slope.

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Environment Environment (USA) General News USA 

Alaska’s Cold War radars face new threat from climate change

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 13:19 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:44
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Across Alaska, 15 remote radars spin every minute of the day, 365 days a year. Since the Cold War, they’ve

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Environment Environment (USA) General News USA 

Communities wrestle with shark-bite mystery off Alaskan coast

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 15:31 — Last Updated: Friday, July 27, 2018 at 15:52
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Sometimes it’s seals with amputated flippers. Or even a sea lion snatched seemingly out of thin air. But for at

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General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey scientist resigns over Petroleum Reserve report

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 11:35 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 11:42
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A report on Alaska’s oil potential is at the heart of a controversy at the Department of Interior. The magazine

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Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Remote Alaska community to receive state money after Arctic mega-storm

Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 15:11
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After a September storm caused severe damage to roads in the far-north community of Utqiagvik, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has

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Blog – In debate over Alaska drilling, two Indigenous representatives clash

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, November 6, 2017 at 16:33 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 10:56
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Last Thursday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a five-hour hearing on drilling in the Arctic

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Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Permafrost thaw prompts emergency orders from Alaska regulators over pipelines concerns

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 12:19 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 13:17
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Concerned that thawing permafrost might contribute to another oil and gas leak such as the one that BP experienced in

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Pumpjacks at work pumping crude oil near Halkirk, Alta., June 20, 2007. (Larry MacDougal/The Canadian Press)
Business Business (USA) News USA 

After a long decline, Alaska expects third straight year of increased oil production

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 14:21
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Alaska producers have “outperformed” and are doing “more with less,” according to a presentation to lawmakers on Wednesday from the

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Oil field data worth millions of dollars is about to be made public by Alaska

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 15:29 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 18:30
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The state is planning to release a trove of seismic data from oil exploration surveys as early as mid-September that cost

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Arctic Alaska oil field remains alive despite bankruptcy, isolation

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, August 21, 2017 at 13:54
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The Umiat oil field, now with a new owner after the previous one went broke, remains as promising yet as

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U.S. congressmen look for ways to open up Alaska’s natural resources

Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, August 18, 2017 at 15:31 — Last Updated: Friday, August 18, 2017 at 15:33
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Alaska Rep. Don Young has spent the week guiding some of his fellow Republican members of Congress around some of

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