North Slope

The Biden administration has moved to block development in the refuge — and AIDEA’s move could put the two sides on track for a battle in court.

Over the first two days, captains will haul the whaling boats up and show off their crews flags before cutting up the whale for the large communal feast. 

Murkowski confronted Stone-Manning over the reversal of a BLM land action from the final days of the Trump administration.

A leaking Cook Inlet pipeline contributed to Hilcorp’s high methane escapement, but Hilcorp’s larger methane problems are in the Lower 48.

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. 

Sullivan says decisions made by the Trump administration that benefit Alaska are under attack.

The missed deadline effectively kills the corporation’s proposal to use seismic exploration to search for oil in part of the Arctic refuge’s coastal plain this winter.

A federal appeals panel has halted work at one of Alaska’s biggest proposed North Slope oil fields, putting dozens of contractors out of work and costing ConocoPhillips, the project’s developer, millions of dollars.

Conoco had planned to break ground at the gravel mine site on Feb. 12.

With President Biden issuing executive orders pausing oil and gas leases and permits, Alaska’s U.S. senators are seeing years of their accomplishments erased.