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Project Decisions in Alaska Will Help Define Biden’s Conservation and Climate Legacy Article
Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is pictured.

Project Decisions in Alaska Will Help Define Biden’s Conservation and Climate Legacy

From a potential Arctic oil drilling hub to a mine that threatens one of the world’s most productive salmon fisheries, a series of upcoming project decisions in Alaska are poised to shape the Biden administration’s conservation and climate legacy.

Drew McConville, Jenny Rowland-Shea, Michael Freeman

The Oil and Gas Industry’s Dangerous Answer to Climate Change Article
Pipelines extend across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, May 2019. (Getty/Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)

The Oil and Gas Industry’s Dangerous Answer to Climate Change

Companies are resorting to extreme measures to protect their own operations from the effects of climate change, even as their lobbyists stall reform.

Sahir Doshi

How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action Report
 (A woman rides on a tour boat as a container ship is offloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Terminal Island, California, March 2020.)

How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action

As the Biden administration and Congress pursue ambitious infrastructure investments, they should look to the ocean to build a clean energy future.

Rennie Meyers, Alexandra Carter, Miriam Goldstein

Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan Would Be an Environmental Disaster Article
A brown pelican coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf at Grand Terre Island, Louisiana, following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of April 2010. (Getty/Win McNamee)

Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan Would Be an Environmental Disaster

The Trump administration’s offshore drilling plan would be disastrous for the environment, leading to seven times more carbon pollution than the entire United States emits each year and causing nearly 100 large oil spills over the next 30 years.

Margaret Cooney, Mary Ellen Kustin

The Energy Case Against Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Article
A muskox is seen in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Flckr/Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

The Energy Case Against Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Rocky Mountain energy producers, Arctic wildlife, and all Americans would lose if Congress sells out the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in its bid to give tax cuts to the 1 percent.

Matt Lee-Ashley

Icebreakers: Essential Assets for a Changing Arctic Report
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea is towed stern-first into the Port of Seattle for major engine repairs, March 2004. (AP/Elaine Thompson)

Icebreakers: Essential Assets for a Changing Arctic

Without decisive action to fund and build new heavy icebreakers for the U.S. Coast Guard, the United States puts its environment and national security in harm’s way.

Shiva Polefka

Safeguarding the Arctic Report
A boy walks along the banks of the Newtok River in the village of Newtok, Alaska. (AP/Al Grillo)

Safeguarding the Arctic

National security, coastal communities, and the environment are at stake as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes the helm of the Arctic Council.

Cathleen Kelly, Miranda Peterson

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Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Injustice

Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Injustice

We pursue climate action that meets the crisis’s urgency, creates good-quality jobs, benefits disadvantaged communities, and restores U.S. credibility on the global stage.

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