Alaska and Hawaii

"Trump Reverses Biden On Natural Resource Protections In Alaska"

"The partisan divide over natural resource protections took a hard shift to the right with the inauguration of President Trump, who reversed moves the Biden administration took to protect natural resources in Alaska from mining and energy development and hunting bears with baits."

Source: National Parks Traveler, 01/23/2025

"Threatened And Endangered Parks: National Parks And The Mines Next Door"

"As far as the Biden administration is concerned, a proposed Alaska mining road through a U.S. national park and adjacent federal land is kaput. Rejected. Case closed."

Source: National Parks Traveler, 01/13/2025

"Trump Is ‘Sympathetic’ To Executive Order On Alaskan Drilling, Senator Says"

"President-elect Donald Trump appears “very sympathetic” to requests to issue an executive order reversing many of President Joe Biden’s energy policies in Alaska, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said in an interview Thursday, a move with sweeping implications for oil and gas drilling on millions of acres of federal lands in the state."

Source: Washington Post, 01/10/2025

"Trump Wants Oil Drilling in Alaska. A Lease Sale There Just Flopped."

"One of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s biggest “drill, baby, drill” initiatives suffered a significant setback on Wednesday as the Interior Department announced that a lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended without a single bidder."

Source: NYTimes, 01/09/2025

"Biden's Arctic Refuge Oil Lease Auction Ripe for Challenge"

"The Biden administration’s decision to include restrictions in the auction of oil drilling rights in part of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is legally vulnerable as the state looks to the next administration to allow more oil development."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 12/13/2024

"17,000 Axis Deer Were Killed On Maui This Year, But They Just Keep Coming"

"About 50 axis deer crowded around the fence line separating Maui Nui Botanical Gardens and Keopuolani Regional Park, startling the gardens staff on a recent Thursday afternoon. The threat posed by the invasive deer was alarming because the gardens serve as a seed bank and are home to some of Hawaii’s rarest endemic and native plants."

Source: Honolulu Civil Beat, 11/20/2024

Biden Admin Backs King Cove Road Through Izembek Wildlife Refuge

"The Biden administration on Wednesday endorsed a land exchange that would allow a controversial gravel road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Southwest Alaska."

Source: Anchorage Daily News, 11/14/2024

"Biden Moves To Limit Oil Drilling In Arctic National Wildlife Refuge"

"The Biden administration moved Wednesday to narrow the scope of an oil-and-gas lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that was mandated under President Donald Trump."

Source: Washington Post, 11/07/2024

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