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"Alaska Wildfires Destroy Dozens of Homes, Menace Highway" [1]

"Two fast-spreading Alaska wildfires have forced a series of evacuations, destroyed up to 45 homes and forced authorities to restrict traffic on a major highway connecting two of the state's largest cities, state officials said on Monday."

Forests [2]
Public [3]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: Reuters [5], 06/17/2015

"NTSB Blames Shell for Wreck of Arctic Drilling Ship" [6]

"The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is putting the blame squarely on Royal Dutch Shell’s shoulders for the late 2012 grounding of an offshore drilling rig it owned on an Alaska island."

Disasters [7]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: The Hill [10], 06/01/2015

"Courts Rule Against Proposed Alaska Mine" [11]

"State and federal courts handed down three decisions against a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska that environmentalists are staging a nationwide fight against."

Fish & Fisheries [12]
Laws & Regulations [13]
Natural Resources [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [3]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: The Hill [16], 06/01/2015

"In Arctic Drilling Debate, A Dispute Over Cleanup Preparedness" [17]

"Royal Dutch Shell can drill oil exploration wells this summer in the Chukchi Sea, if Shell shows it can prevent and clean up a potential spill. Environmentalists are skeptical; Shell says it's ready."

Disasters [7]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: NPR [18], 05/18/2015

"More Protests Planned After Giant Oil Rig Muscles In" [19]

"Paddle-powered activists hit the waters of Elliott Bay in kayaks Thursday to throw an 'unwelcome party' for a massive Shell drilling rig as it reached the Port of Seattle."

Activism [20]
Disasters [7]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Public [3]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Northwest (OR WA) [21]
Source: Seattle Times [22], 05/15/2015

"Seattle Port Votes to Delay Drilling Rigs on the Way to Alaska" [23]

"The Port of Seattle’s board voted Tuesday to ask that the arrival of Shell’s Arctic drilling rigs be delayed, bowing to a wave of public pressure by protesters and city officials over the company’s plans to drill this summer off the coast of Alaska and use Puget Sound as a home port."

Disasters [7]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Pollution [24]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Antarctica & Arctic [25]
Source: NY Times [26], 05/13/2015

Shell Flunks Coast Guard Inspection, Pushes on with Arctic Drilling [27]

"A drill ship at the heart of Shell's hunt for Arctic oil flunked a Coast Guard inspection last month when a piece of anti-pollution gear that already cost its owner millions in fines failed again."

Disasters [7]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Pollution [24]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [9]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: Vice News [28], 05/07/2015

"Iconic Alaskan Yellow Cedar Considered For Endangered Protection" [29]

"An iconic Alaska tree may warrant protection as a threatened or endangered species due to climate warming, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday."

Forests [2]
Public [3]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: AP [30], 04/10/2015

"12 Protesters Arrested Blocking Road To Giant Telescope Site" [31]

"HONOLULU — Police on the Big Island arrested 12 people Thursday who were trying to block workers from getting to a telescope construction site on a mountain considered sacred to Native Hawaiians."

Activism [20]
People & Population [32]
Public [3]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: AP [33], 04/03/2015

"How Brain-Damaging Mercury Puts Arctic Kids at Risk" [34]

"In the frozen far north, in Arctic Quebec, the Inuit have relied on the same nutritious foods culled from the oceans for centuries: beluga whale, fish, seal, and walrus. But some of these traditional foods have become so contaminated with brain-damaging mercury that the IQs of schoolchildren in remote Arctic villages are abnormally low."

People & Population [32]
Pollution [24]
Public [3]
Alaska and Hawaii [4]
Source: National Geographic [35], 03/31/2015

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