Mining companies profit and you pay the price—updates on the Ambler and Mat Su industrial roads
By Dawnell Smith The Trump administration has recently pushed for two major industrial...
15 October, 2026
Another failed Arctic Refuge lease sale and other Arctic news
By Madison Grosvenor Congress and the Trump administration made big revenue promises about...
16 June, 2026
Our common cause is each other—Alaska News Brief October 2025
Earlier this month, the remnants of a typhoon that originated in the...
17 October, 2025
Darkness before the dawn—Alaska News Brief August 2025
In 1650, after living through about eight years of civil war in...
13 August, 2025
Drilling and mining are economic vampires: Alaska News Brief October 2023
I’ve been thinking about metal and mineral mining a lot these days,...
20 October, 2023
Permitting process severely underestimates mining spills in Alaska
A report released this month shows that the number of documented spills...
15 April, 2022
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
Our 2021 view of the lawsuits and issues
Things look far rosier now than a year ago when it comes...
16 March, 2021
Shining light on the Arctic
Despite four years of intense arm-twisting by political players and industry insiders...
17 February, 2021
We’re taking Trump to court over bogus Ambler decision
We sued the Trump administration to challenge its illegal approval of the...
04 August, 2020
The road to a budget black hole
What does Alaska’s budget chaos have to do with a proposed private...
22 August, 2019
Alaska Brief–December 2018
Happy holidays! I hope you are gathering in this celebratory season with friends...
24 December, 2018
Ambler road rears its head
A Canadian mining company wants Alaska to finance a private industrial road...
20 December, 2018
Ambler project endangers wildlife and people
[caption id="attachment_3496" align="alignright" width="456"] The pot of gold at the end of...
16 February, 2018
Alaska Brief Newsletter–January 2018
We endured a bounty of rollbacks in 2017, but the attacks on...
16 January, 2018
Say no to the proposed Ambler road
The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA), a state agency, has...
15 January, 2018