PEER in Alaska

PEER's environmental work is solely directed by the needs of its members. As a consequence, we have the distinct honor of serving resource professionals who daily cast profiles in courage in cubicles across the country.

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Following are PEER news releases, white papers, surveys and other activities for Alaska:


News Releases for Alaska
October 20, 2009  PROFESSOR STRIPPED OF NOAA FUNDING FOR ADVOCACY — University of Alaska President Upholds Grant Removal and Office Eviction
October 12, 2009  NOAA RAISES RED FLAGS ON AGGRESSIVE OFFSHORE DRILLING PLAN — Exclusion Zones, Buffers and Oil Spill Protections Would Scale Back Lease Schedule
October 1, 2009  DON’T EXPECT NEW MARINE SANCTUARIES UNDER OBAMA — NOAA Chief Says No Plans to Even Begin Considering New Ocean Reserves
March 23, 2009  $100 MILLION STILL OWED FROM EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL — U.S. and Alaska Fail to Collect $92 Million Damage Claim Filed Back in 2006
February 10, 2009  NOAA SEA GRANT SEEKS TO DE-FUND SCIENTIST FOR ADVOCACY — Protest on Oil Industry Bias in Sea Grant Seen to “Cause Problems Nationally”
November 11, 2008  PROBE DEMANDED INTO SHUTDOWN OF BP ALASKA OIL SPILL CASE — Senior EPA Agent Charges Criminal Investigation Truncated and Fines Slashed
July 7, 2008  ARMY KNEW ALASKA BASE FAMILY HOUSING SITE WAS TOXIC — Audit Found Civil and Criminal Liability at Taku Gardens But No Action Taken
June 12, 2008  ARMY’S $100 MILLION HOUSING FROM HELL: ALASKA’S TAKU GARDENS — Responsibility Evaded for Uninhabitable Base Family Housing atop Weapons Dump
May 20, 2008  SHELL’S REVOLVING DOOR SWINGS U.S. ARCTIC DRILLING PROGRAM — Oil Company Grabs Top Agency Managers to Push What They Used to Regulate
May 15, 2008  U.S. TRUSTING OIL COMPANIES TO SAFEGUARD ARCTIC WILDLIFE — Industry Permit Plans Not Subjected to Required Peer-Review or Monitoring
April 10, 2008  U.S. OFFSHORE LEASING PREMISED ON FUTURE OF CHEAP OIL — Planning Assumes $30 a Barrel Oil to Minimize Potential Environmental Impacts
March 20, 2008  OIL DEAL FOR ALASKA WILDLIFE REFUGE ON FAST TRACK — Yukon Flats Land Exchange Tied to Oil Development but No Time for Appraisals
February 19, 2008  BOWHEAD WHALE IMPERILED BY ARCTIC DRILLING PLANS — Scientific Warnings on Oil Spills and Seismic Noise Disregarded to Speed Lease Sales
February 13, 2008  ARCTIC OCEAN OIL REVIEWS SOFT-PEDALED EXXON VALDEZ — Oil Spill Dangers to Wildlife Minimized to Keep Lease Sales on Schedule
February 4, 2008  LEAKED E-MAILS MAY SINK ARCTIC OFFSHORE LEASE SALES — Officials Scramble to Suppress Scientific Dissent over Bush Arctic Oil Initiative
January 24, 2008  INVASIVE SPECIES THREAT FROM ARCTIC OFFSHORE DRILLING IGNORED — Interior Purged Scientific Concerns about Introduction of Exotics in Arctic Waters
January 21, 2008  INTERIOR STIFLES POLAR BEAR PROTECTIONS FROM ARCTIC DRILLING — Listing Delay Blocks Safeguards Urged by Scientists Contrary to Agency Testimony
January 17, 2008  INTERIOR WITHHOLDING KEY DOCUMENTS ON ARCTIC DRILLING — Shell Plans for LNG and Tanker Traffic in Chukchi Sea Barred from Lease Review
September 4, 2007  NEW PARK SERVICE POLICY PROMOTES ALASKA INHOLDINGS — Interim Guidance Abandons Acquisition as Tool to Protect Wilderness and Wildlife
June 6, 2006  ALASKA: THE LAST FRONTIER IS LAST WASTE DUMP — State Pocked by Thousands of Hazardous Waste Sites with Little Monitoring
February 9, 2004  EPA RELAXES AIR POLLUTION RULES FOR NORTH SLOPE OIL OPERATIONS — Leavitt Asked to Intervene on BP Permit
May 29, 2002  ALASKA AIR PROGRAM FLUNKS FEDERAL TESTS — EPA Grants Up for Renewal
May 14, 2002  EPA RIPS BP PERMIT — Feds Echo Concerns of Censored ADEC Employee
April 2, 2002  ADEC EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINED FOR PROTESTING BP PERMIT — Air Pollution Violations on North Slope Suppressed
March 6, 2002  NORTH SLOPE REGULATOR RESIGNS — OIL COMPANIES FORCED TRANSFER, SEEKING LENIENT TREATMENT
February 28, 2002  INDUSTRY RUNS ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY, EMPLOYEES SAY EMPLOYEE — Survey Gives Alaska DEC Poor Marks
October 25, 2001  INTERIOR SECRETARY BLASTED FOR MISLEADING CONGRESS — Groups call for Senate Investigations
October 19, 2001  SECRETARY NORTON FALSIFIED ARCTIC REFUGE DATA — Misled Congress on Environmental Effects of ANWR Drilling
Surveys for Alaska
2002  Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation

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