Press Releases
5/15/2008 - Polar Bear: Too Little? Hopefully Not Too Late
Statement from Cindy Shogan, Executive Director, Alaska Wilderness League
5/13/2008 - Senate Heartily Rebukes Attempt to Open Arctic Refuge to Oil Drilling
Today’s vote shows that majority believes drilling is not the answer to high gas prices
4/29/2008 - Bush’s Comments on Gas Prices: Pump ‘Em Up with Rhetoric
Statement by Cindy Shogan, Executive Director of Alaska Wilderness League
3/25/2008 - BLM Ring of Fire ROD Favors Private Interests Over Local and Conservation Values
Statement of Jennifer Hillman, BLM Policy Analyst, Alaska Wilderness League
3/14/2008 - Alaska Delegation Attempts to Open Arctic Refuge to Drilling: More Smoke and Mirrors
U.S Energy Information Administration (EIA) Report Cites Alternative Technologies and Reduced Consumption Have Ten Times the Power to Reduce Oil Imports than Potential Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Production
2/6/2008 - Citizens Across the Country Protest Administration’s Leasing of U.S. Polar Bear Habitat in Alaska to Big Oil
Citizens Gather at Shell Gas Stations Across the Country to Protest Shell Oil’s Bids on Lease Sale 193 in the Chukchi Sea
2/6/2008 - Native and Conservation Groups Voice Opposition to Lease Sale 193 in the Chukchi Sea
Arctic Oil and Gas Lease Sale Moves Forward Despite Science and Agencies’ Opposition
1/31/2008 - Opposition Builds Against Drilling Arctic’s Chukchi Sea
Alaska Native and Conservation Groups Challenge Lease Sale 193
1/30/2008 - Polar Bears Need Urgent Protection, Conservation Groups Testify
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Hearing Focused on Threats and Protections for Polar Bears
1/25/2008 - New Plan for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska Perpetuates Old Challenges, Offers Potential Opportunity
1/16/2008 - Conservation Community Praises Chairman Markey for Highlighting Conflicting Department of Interior (DOI) Decisions that Threaten America’s Polar Bears
Arctic Oil and Gas Lease Sales Must Be Postponed Until After Endangered Species Listing Decision
12/4/2007 - Federal Appeals Court Hears Oral Arguments on Controversial Arctic Ocean Oil Drilling
11/14/2007 - Sealaska Corporation Entitlement Legislation (H.R. 3560) is the right priority but wrong approach
Statement of Laurie Cooper, Rainforest Program Director, Alaska Wilderness League
11/7/2007 - Conservationists Applaud Introduction of Senate Arctic Wilderness Legislation
Arctic Wilderness Act Would Stop Drilling Efforts and Permanently Protect Vital Wildlife Habitat
11/6/2007 - Hundreds of Thousands Call for Protection of World-Class Wetlands Complex From Oil and Gas
Public Comment Period Closes for Alaska’s Teshekpuk Lake
9/10/2007 - Citizens Celebrate 100th Anniversary of America’s Largest National Forest
100 Years Since Proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt Sets Aside Lands as the Tongass National Forest
7/20/2007 - Federal Appears Court Calls Time Out on Controversial Arctic Ocean Oil Drilling
7/2/2007 - MMS 5-Year Plan Effective July 1; Alaska Waters, Native Communities and Wildlife in Peril
6/28/2007 - House Oversight Hearing on 5-Year OCS Plan Important First Step for Protecting America’s Arctic Waters
Statement of Kristen Miller, Legislative Director, Alaska Wilderness League
6/27/2007 - US House Votes 283-145 to Limit Tongass Road Subsidies
6/20/2007 - Fixated Politicians Threaten Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Again
6/6/2007 - America’s Future Runs on Clean Energy
Putting Native Cultures, Unparalleled Wildlife, Pristine Oceans at Risk Takes America Backwards, Not Forward
5/25/07 - U.S. Native Whaling Interests Threatened Under Current Bush Administration’s 5-Year OCS Plan
Shell Oil and Gas Development Would Spell Disaster for the U.S. Whaling Traditions Already Stressed by Past Activities.
5/17/07 - BP Hearings Shine Daylight on Safety Lapses and Big Oil’s Environmental Negligence
Statement of Kristen Miller, Legislative Director, Alaska Wilderness League
4/30/07 - Nationwide Appeals for Greater Protection of America’s Rainforest in Alaska Cuts Across Diverse Interests
Forest Service Public Comment Period on Tongass National Forest Closes, Congress and Diverse Stakeholders Challenge Forest Service to End Taxpayer Subsidized Logging
4/30/07 - Administration’s New Five-Year Oceans Plan Threatens Wildlife and Native Communities in Alaska
78 Million Acres in Alaska’s Pristine Oceans on the Chopping Block for Oil and Gas Development
4/17/07 - American Taxpayers Foot Bill for Clear-cutting in America’s Rainforest in Alaska
Statement of Laurie Cooper, Rainforest Program Director, Alaska Wilderness League
4/17/07 - Alaska Native and Conservation Groups Challenge Shell’s Arctic Drilling
4/4/07 - First Climate Crisis Action Day Draws Thousands
Citizens from Alaska to Maine urge congress to act now against global warming.
1/18/07 - House Passes Bill to Fund Renewable Energy and Stop Big Oil Giveaways
House of Representatives passes “The C.L.E.A.N. Energy Act of 2007”.
1/12/07 - Bush Administration Clings to High Logging Levels of the Past in America’s Rainforest in Alaska
Proposed action for new Tongass National Forest plan keeps roadless areas open to logging. Sets stage for Congress to act again to limit taxpayer subsidies for logging road construction.
9/25/2006 - Federal Court Decision Protects Alaskan Lake, Wetlands from Oil Drilling
Ruling Finds Interior Shortchanged Environmental Protection for Teshekpuk Lake, September 27 Lease Sale Postponed Indefinitely
9/13/2005 - Coalition Press Briefing Kicks Off Senate Energy and Natural Resource Hearings
Presents Alaska Native Perspective on Impacts of Oil and Gas Development
Please refer all media inquiries to Becky Wynne, National Communications Director at 202-544-5205 or email becky@alaskawild.org. Thank you.
