The vaccines are part of the 25 million doses the Biden administration announced last week that it is distributing worldwide.
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Florida lawsuit could end Alaska cruise season, CDC says
Without the conditional sailing order, the Alaska Tourism Restoration Act can’t apply. That would leave the 19th-century Passenger Vessel Services Act in place.
Federal appeals court rules Trump administration was wrong to reverse protections for Pacific walrus
The ruling comes more than a decade after the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group, first petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the walrus as endangered or threatened.
Biden administration puts Arctic refuge leases on ice as it asks for new environmental reviews
The Interior Department has suspended oil and gas leases in ANWR that were issued to Alaska’s state-owned economic development corporation and two smaller companies in the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Frustration mounts as CDC keeps face mask rules for commercial fishing crews
This week, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and New Hampshire Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan wrote a letter to the CDC and Coast Guard asking them to work together to exempt commercial fishers from the mask requirement.
Murkowski, Sullivan split on vote establishing Jan. 6 commission
The U.S. Senate has blocked a bill that would have established a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
Slow federal funding could delay water, sewer projects for some Alaska tribes
In the American Rescue Plan Act, $20 billion have been reserved for federally recognized tribes, about 10% of which are in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Biden administration throws support behind Willow oil project
The Biden administration has reversed course and is now defending a decision to allow the Willow project, a major oil drilling development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Hilcorp gets more time to replace leaky pipeline in Cook Inlet
Hilcorp’s line, which delivers fuel gas to a system of oil platforms in the inlet, sprung a leak last month.
Sullivan breaks with Republican senators to champion trails
Trail and cycling advocates are applauding Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan for being the first Republican to co-sponsor a bill that would provide billions of dollars to connect trail systems and improve access to trails.