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Collar cams offer a bear's eye view into the lives of grizzlies on Alaska's desolate North Slope

Researchers at Washington State University and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are using collar cams to study a remote population of grizzly bears on Alaska's North Slope

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US appeals court refuses to vacate Biden approval of Alaska's Willow oil project

A federal appeals court panel has refused to vacate the approval of the massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope

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Alaska Poised To Beg for Relief From Crippling Federal Shipping Restrictions

The Jones Act keeps energy-hungry Alaskans from using their own natural gas.

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Archaic Federal Law Keeps Alaskans From Using Abundant Natural Gas Reserves

The Jones Act makes the North Slope’s resources inaccessible to the state’s energy-starved residents.

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Alaska judge upholds Biden administration's approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project

A federal judge has upheld the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska’s remote North Slope, a massive project that drew the ire of environmentalists who accused the president of backpedaling on his pledge to combat climate change

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Federal report sheds new light on Alaska helicopter crash that killed 3 scientists, pilot

A helicopter that crashed on Alaska’s North Slope in July, killing three state scientists and the pilot, stopped sending flight-status data to a real-time tracking system as it passed over the southeastern shoreline of an Arctic lake

The Independent UK

Dive team deployed after helicopter crashes into Alaska lake; all 4 on board presumed dead

A rescue and recovery dive team was deployed Saturday after a helicopter with a pilot and three state workers crashed in a large lake on Alaska’s North Slope,

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ConocoPhillips faces potential $914,000 fine over Alaska gas blowout, leak

ConocoPhillips Alaska faces a potential $914,000 fine over what a state regulatory agency called a “shallow underground blowout” of a well that released natural gas at the company’s Alpine field on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope last year

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Judge: Alaska oil project can proceed as lawsuits play out

Construction can proceed related to a major oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope

The Independent UK

ConocoPhillips details gas leak cause, remedies at hearing

ConocoPhillips has detailed reasons and remedies following a natural gas leak last year on the North Slope that caused 300 employees to be evacuated

The Independent UK

Official: Willow oil project holds promise, faces obstacles

A state official says the Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope is part of a “new era” of development in the region but isn’t a sure thing

The Independent UK

What's next for Alaska's Willow oil project? AP explains

The Biden administration’s approval this week of the largest new oil project in years on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope has immediately been met by lawsuits seeking to stop the Willow project

The Independent UK

3 reasons the Willow Arctic oil drilling project was approved – it's the latest battle in a long fight over Alaska's North Slope

For more than six decades, Alaska’s North Slope has been a focus of intense controversy over oil development and wilderness protection, with no end in sight. Willow field, a 600-million-barrel, US$8 billion oil project recently approved by the Biden administration – to the outrage of environmental and climate activists –…

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Alaska oil project approved as protection sought for other areas

WASHINGTON — The Interior Department on Monday approved the operation of a massive oil and gas facility on Alaska’s North Slope, a ConocoPhillips project called Willow supported by the state’s congressional delegation but opposed by environmental groups.

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Alaska's Willow oil project is controversial. Here's why.

Supporters say a major oil project President Joe Biden is OK'ing on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities while environmentalists say it runs counter to his climate goals

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Joe Biden approves huge Willow oil project in Alaska

The Biden administration is approving the major Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope

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TikTok campaign targets Biden on proposed Alaska oil project

A social media campaign is urging President Joe Biden to reject an oil development project on Alaska's North Slope

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Biden faces dilemma in fight over large Alaska oil project

The Biden administration is weighing approval of a major oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope that supporters say represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities but environmentalists say runs counter to President Joe Biden’s climate goals

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Roll Call

As Willow project decision nears, Alaska ponders ties to oil - Roll Call

The administration may soon allow a new oil and gas drilling project in Alaska, even as it aims to halve U.S. carbon emissions by 2030.

The Independent UK

Biden administration recommends major Alaska oil project

The Biden administration has issued a long-awaited study that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska’s North Slope

Tribune News Service

Geologist whose 2013 discovery 'revolutionized' North Slope oil exploration lays plans to drill again this winter

The risk-taking geologist who discovered a giant Alaska oil field in 2013 that companies had long overlooked is taking another stab at exploration drilling on the North Slope, this time on federal land west of existing development.

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A 'historically powerful' storm brings seas of up to 54 feet toward Alaska, NWS says

Virtually Alaska's entire shoreline is under some form of alert. Flood and storm warnings cover the west, and craft advisories cover both the Gulf of Alaska and the coast of the North Slope.

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