...opportunity for public testimony was provided Friday, but no one from the public testified.Betsy Beardsley, environmental justice program director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said in an interview that she wants to know more about the bill before...

...would force Native whalers farther from the coast in their search for the mammals. Betsy Beardsley is the environmental justice program director for Alaska Wilderness League, which pushed the case before the 9th Circuit. "There is no proven science...