The U.S. Interior Department has already signed a new land swap agreement for a King Cove road, just days after it gave up its appeal of a court ruling that its prior agreement violated federal law.
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Feds withdraw appeal of Izembek Refuge road decision
For now, that leaves in place a federal judge’s decision blocking a land exchange for a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
A judge blocked a Trump plan for a controversial road through an Alaska wildlife refuge. Now the administration is appealing.
The Trump administration is appealing a court ruling that blocked plans to build a long-sought road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
Judge deals blow to King Cove road
A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration’s land exchange agreement for the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The arrangement was intended to allow for a road to connect King Cove to Cold Bay.
Trump’s swap of ‘irreplaceable’ wilderness allows millions of dollars in seafood transport
A road through a national refuge in Alaska is meant to be for medical evacuations. But a little-known loophole lets it move fish, not just patients.
Enviros sue over King Cove road
“What the secretary failed to do was any environmental analysis, any public process related to this actual exchange of lands,” attorney Katie Strong said at the environmental law firm Trustees for Alaska.
Zinke signs land trade to allow road for King Cove
It’s a major turning point in the dispute over a roughly 12-mile road that would be mostly, or entirely, built on what’s now a federally protected wilderness in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
King Cove closer to goal of 100 percent renewable electricity
Funding for renewable energy projects in Alaska has dried up, but that has not stopped the City of King Cove from pursuing green power.
U.S. House passes King Cove Road bill
The Senate hasn’t passed the bill yet. Don Young hinted the Trump administration might not need new legislation to take action.
Trump’s Interior secretary takes first baby step on King Cove road
There was a bit of a victory Monday for supporters of a proposed road in Southwest Alaska that would connect the village of King Cove to an airport at Cold Bay via the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.