Ian M. Stevenson
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Interior plans fast track for oil exploration in Alaska's North Slope (opens the original)
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The Trump administration is planning to pare down environmental reviews of oil and gas exploration activities over the winter in parts of Alaska’s North Slope. As part of the administration’s push to speed oil and gas production, officials at the Interior Department plan to issue a categorical exclusion for winter seismic testing and other exploration activities in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. The move could potentially mean skipping a public comment period and declining to examine the e
Interior moves to speed historic reviews as bigger rewrite looms (opens the original)
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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued an order last week aimed at speeding up historic preservation reviews often required for energy development and other projects on federal land. The Thursday secretarial order instructs agency officials to be timely in their processing of reviews, to create lists of activities that can be exempted from historic evaluations and use alternative arrangements to accelerate reviews. “We’re cutting red tape, clearing bureaucratic roadblocks, and making sure governm
A White House official helped an oil company advance its projects. Now she’ll lead its DC office. (opens the original)
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People milling around before a press conference in Santa Barbara, California, in early June might have mistaken Brittany Kelm, a White House staffer, for an oil company representative. During the tour of oil facilities run by Sable Offshore Corp., a company that owns an offshore pipeline which the Trump administration had recently helped to get oil flowing through, Kelm sported a Sable-branded cap and a Sable-branded shirt with her name embroidered on it, according to a photograph she posted to
Democrats warn Interior not to shred official documents (opens the original)
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Democrats are pressing the Interior Department about its public records policies after POLITICO reported last week that senior officials have been seen destroying documents. Lawmakers are also scrutinizing the resume of President Donald Trump’s nominee for Interior’s internal watchdog, probing whether he plans to conduct internal investigations into alleged misconduct, including mishandling of public records. “We are deeply concerned by recent reports that officials at the Department have report
Fish fights take center stage in Alaska Senate race (opens the original)
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The plight of the state’s fisheries, some of the most productive in the world, has become a flashpoint in Alaska’s Senate race and arisen as a potential weakness for two-term incumbent Dan Sullivan. Sullivan faces a tough reelection bid against former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola, who has centered her campaign around “Fish, Family, Freedom.” She’s trying to harness anger at out-of-state commercial fishing to win her way back to Congress. Alaska hosts some of the largest commercial pollock fisher
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