Updated mine plans could mean more waste, more tailings and more risk than previously studied.

The first reservations will be available once the U.S. Forest Service opens the Placer River Valley for snowmachiners and fat-tire bikers this winter.

As Fat Bear Week 2026 begins, a proposed mining project in Alaska threatens the future of brown bears.

A proposed mine inside neighboring Lake Clark National Park is moving forward, raising concerns about bears and other wildlife and what development there could mean for Alaska’s protected lands.

In Lake Clark National Park, the proposed Johnson Tract gold mine threatens to change this bear paradise.

The projected cost of the first 22 miles has jumped from approximately $89.6 million in the previous STIP to $227.6 million in the new draft, an increase of roughly 154 percent.

Every leak and spill puts our waters, workers, and communities at risk, and these infrastructure failures will only get worse.

When resource development threatens other major industries, Alaska risks turning opportunity into an economic curse.

The developer's least risky and most profitable path is not to build the pipeline. It's to build the LNG import facility, cash the checks, and wait.

The promised household savings begin only after pipeline demand reaches a threshold that current projections cannot meet.

Data centers have become a growing concern as November's midterm elections loom. The debate has united left-leaning environmentalists and conservative farmers.

Hundreds of gray whales have turned up dead in recent years from Mexico to Alaska, and the population dropped by about half over a decade.

State officials say they still cannot trace the sheen to the nearby oil platform.

Once offshore oil platforms drain their wells, the government has the power to force the companies that own them to tear the structures down. But the owners can put off that costly process using a…

If big projects cannot survive without risky public subsidies and unproven technology, they should not be carried on the public’s back.

To understand the Johnson Tract Mine, we must understand that the foundational purpose of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was to open land to extraction. ANCSA reshaped the public…

There is nothing critical about a gold mine. The proposed Johnson Tract Mine in Lake Clark National Park is being fast-tracked under the guise of a critical mineral project, but it's real purpose is t...

The three consecutive special sessions to consider a tax break for the Alaska LNG project cost taxpayers more than $1 million.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation says the sheen was not visible during flyovers around noon Tuesday or from an oil cleanup ship sent to the site.

Responders were searching for the source of an oily sheen that appeared near a decommissioned platform on the west side of the inlet.

This is one more reminder of why having oil and gas in our backyard is a liability to the marine ecosystems we rely on for our livelihoods and wellbeing. Enough is enough. We have to start holding…

Homer Drawdown is a community-led, grassroots organization working to sequester carbon, reduce emissions, and ultimately fight the climate crisis that affects us all. No Scrap Wasted was selected as o...

The BOEM & BSEE merger increases the risk of oil spills like the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon disasters.

Another fantasy project gives AK LNG a serious challenge as Alaska's worst energy idea: the Terra Energy Center, a planned coal mine and power plant far from any existing energy infrastructure, with n...

Scrapping the definition of harm and gutting the ESA is a blatant handout to industries that care more about short-term profits than the survival of countless species or the health of our ecosystems.

Thank you to everyone who dropped off their electronics at our events. Keeping hazardous waste out of our watershed is a community effort with incalculable benefits.

Echolocation is belugas' main sense for hunting, navigating, communicating, and tracking in Cook Inlet's murky waters. Research shows that ship noise can drown out their most common calls, including t...

A secret agreement provides the most detailed insight yet into one of the world’s largest prospective natural gas projects.

Candidates tell us how they'd respond to threats like typhoons and thawing permafrost, and with whom they'd want to dine — living or dead.

Last month, the Department of Justice issued a briefing affirming their defense to the EPA’s 2023 Clean Water Act veto for the massive open-pit copper mine proposed in the Bristol Bay watershed as par...

Bring your disused devices to Electronics Recycling events on May 2nd in Homer and Soldotna. May 9th in Seward.

The geopolitical dice are still tumbling. But Alaska has better things to do than gamble on the roll.

A new economic report based on the proposed Johnson Tract Mine's 2025 SEC Technical Report Summary Initial Assessment reveals a common story: like many so other extractive projects in Alaska, the weal...

Investing in LNG is a bet on climate policy failure. What we can be certain of is that AK LNG would substantially more than double Alaska's current carbon footprint. It's a low-probability, high-impac...

As the landowner, Cook Inlet Regional Inc. has primary decision making power over the future of the Johnson Tract Gold Mine. For a project with so many local consequences, CIRI shareholders deserve to...

Beyond preventing harmful electronics waste from ending up in landfills, we recognize the critical importance of recycling the valuable metals inside the devices we use daily. Inletkeeper and our partners have provided this service in the communities of Nanwalek, Port Graham, Seldovia, Ninilchik, Seward, Soldotna, and Homer.

The old saying is that law is like sausage – if you want to appreciate it, don't watch it being made. But the messy sausage-making of closing this tax loophole hasn't killed our appetite for budget po...

The Department of Interior announced that there were zero bids in today’s Big Beautiful Cook Inlet (BBC1) oil and gas lease sale. This lease sale, held by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM),...

Instead of conducting updated environmental analysis, on the BBC1 lease sale the administration indicated it would rely on reviews completed in 2017 during the first Trump administration. Inletkeeper ...

Governor Mike Dunleavy has said he plans to introduce legislation to give the AKLNG project a 90% break on the property taxes that help fund local schools, roads, and emergency services. Consultants, ...

Something that's normally subtext became an unvarnished acknowledgement: federal policy consistently puts oil corporations first. Even when it makes no sense for anyone, including the oil corporations...

Last year, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) prematurely scrapped an offshore management plan that protected Alaskan coastal waters from oil and gas leasing. Now, the agency is planning mul...

As the Cook Inlet gas we've historically relied on for heat and electricity becomes more expensive and precarious, the Trump administration is offering a golden chance to prolong our dependence, spend...