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Coast Guard to take testimony on Shell grounding

...they could to a grounding site that would cause the least environmental damage.No petroleum was spilled as the vessel ran aground...taken to Singapore for repair.The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, part of the Interior Department, and the...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-20/coast-guard-take-testimony-shell-ground
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Group to sue to force polar bear recovery plan

ANCHORAGE - An environmental group has given formal notice it will go to court to force the federal government to complete a recovery plan for threatened polar...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-16/group-sue-force-polar-bear-recovery-pla
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Bidder 70

Now Playing Synopsis: A cautionary yet inspirational tale of civil disobedience, Bidder 70 offers a fascinating look at the clash between activism and modern politics by detailing the grueling legal struggle endured by Tim DeChristopher, who spent two years in prison for bidding $1.7 million for 22 acres of land in Utah at a controversial Bureau of Land Management Oil and Gas lease auction, though he had no intentions of paying. A University of Utah economics student at the time, DeChristopher put his future on the line to block plans by gas-industry power players to drill on the land, signaling the beginning of a five-year legal battle that encouraged a national dialogue on the topic of environmental preservation. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Tim DeChristopher, Robert Redford, Terry Tempest Williams, James Hansen, Terry Root Movie Details Buy Tickets Movie Review

Interior issues new drilling rule on public land

...confidence that the right safety and environmental protections are in place," she said.But environmental groups said the proposal was weaker...Jessica Ennis, a spokeswoman for the environmental group Earthjustice.The BLM appears...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2013-05-17/interior-issues-new-drilling-rule-pub
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Sealaska Lands bills head to full House committee

...In the U.S Senate, a similar bill, publicly lauded in February by the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, an environmental group, is out of committee and awaits markup.Both Sealaska bills now head to the full House Resources Committee. From...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-16/sealaska-lands-bills-head-full-house-co
Local
Arctic states open council to China, India, SKorea

...The ministers' short meeting, which is held only every two years, also attracted a scattering of protesters form the environmental group Greenpeace, who held banners outside Kiruna's small city hall urging "No Arctic oil." A hulking black mountain...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-16/arctic-states-open-council-china-india-
State
Cases challenge legality of anti-"smurfing" statute

...recognize as reasonable," she wrote, noting the harms caused by meth labs including child endangerment, physical injury and environmental hazards.She said before laws were passed to control the purchase of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, the product could be...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-16/cases-challenge-legality-anti-smurfing-
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Kenai wildlife refuge revises fire management plan

...Officials at the refuge will take public comments on the environmental assessment until the end of the month."Basically (the...help protect communities from forest fires and also promote environmental conservation and restoration.Prescribed burns reduce the...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-14/kenai-wildlife-refuge-revises-fire-mana
State
State water director talks cruise ships at Chamber

...Parnell's House Bill 80, which allows the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation to authorize mixing zones for cruise ships...were David Wetzel and Diana Cote, co-owners of Admiralty Environmental LLC, which conducts wastewater sampling aboard cruise ships...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-09/state-water-director-talks-cruise-ships
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Ex-Gov. Murkowski: Environmentalists hurt development in Alaska

...government is) not pursuing development?" he asked. "It's not pursuing it because of the lobby associated with America's environmental community."Murkowski said environmentalists don't understand the rest of America. Hindering development is detrimental...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-09/ex-gov-murkowski-environmentalists-hurt
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