Darkness before the dawn—Alaska News Brief August 2025
In 1650, after living through about eight years of civil war in...
13 August, 2025
It’s been a month, and I’m pissed off—Alaska News Brief April 2025
Sigh. It’s been a month and then some. Late in March we got...
14 April, 2025
Pulling the Pebble mine out of Alaska’s XTRATUFs
By Dawnell Smith A pebble underfoot can make walking unpleasant and irritating, and...
18 June, 2024
Drinks with Lang—new routes and the economies of play
By Dawnell Smith Lang Van Dommelen typically arrives at the office early with...
17 May, 2024
Drinks with lawyers–Lydia’s quarter-life crisis
Lydia Heye joined Trustees as a legal fellow in September 2022 after...
18 August, 2023
When I grow up, I’m gonna be outdoors!
Lydia grew up wanting to be outdoors; and then the pandemic made...
21 June, 2023
Reflections from the Just Transition Summit
Four of us from Trustees joined the Just Transition Summit at the...
17 June, 2022
Hurtful feelings and hard conversations: Alaska News Brief January 2022
It’s hard for me to understand why we can’t look directly at...
21 January, 2022
Making the 30 x 30 plan work
On day one of his presidency, President Biden signed an executive order...
22 April, 2021
Alaska New Brief March 2021: A year can change everything… and nothing
It’s hard to believe it has been a year since we first...
16 March, 2021
Honoring Elizabeth Peratrovich
The first anti-discrimination law in a U.S. state or territory passed in...
16 February, 2021
Willow project poses immediate threat
We went to court in December to stop ConocoPhillips from doing road...
27 January, 2021
Great news for the Arctic Refuge
Right after the Inauguration, President Biden signed an executive order directing the...
27 January, 2021
December 2020 News Brief–A winter reverie with Loki
Sharing the same space really matters. It helps us understand each other...
23 December, 2020
Lame duck administration plans Arctic Refuge lease sale in January
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced today that it will issue...
03 December, 2020
What will it take to protect Bristol Bay forever?
The U.S. Army Corps denied a permit for the proposed Pebble mine...
03 December, 2020
Key Pebble permit denied!
Good news! Today the Army Corps denied a Clean Water Act permit...
25 November, 2020
Pebble in a time of COVID
Greed drives the Pebble project, and the pandemic hasn’t changed that. Pebble’s “business...
17 July, 2020
Alaska News Brief June 2020: Endless pressure, endlessly applied
I came to Trustees as a staff attorney in 2007 and recall...
17 June, 2020
The national rebellion against racism
Trustees is a nonprofit law firm focusing on environmental law and justice....
04 June, 2020