The fourth decade—the fight for salmon and wildlife
By Madison Grosvenor Trustees for Alaska started its fourth decade in the new...
16 August, 2024
Short but sweet relief on Pebble as Arctic appeals heat up
By Dawnell Smith Significant court rulings can come in small but potent packages,...
18 January, 2024
Litigation 101: Can the state leapfrog lower courts to get straight to the Supreme Court? (Yes, the Pebble train wreck is back.)
Alaska's governor wants to leapfrog established legal processes to push forward the...
18 August, 2023
How building a house in Idaho changed national wetlands policy and now threatens waterways in Alaska
In late May, the U.S. Supreme Court again stepped out of its...
22 June, 2023
Drinks with lawyers—Katie talks about going into the unknown
At 28 and just a few years out of law school, Katie...
21 June, 2023
A Homer couple uses Pick.Click.Give. to protect the places they love
Rika and John Mouw settled in Alaska from the mountains of Colorado...
28 February, 2023
A bittersweet farewell: Alaska News Brief December 2022
December feels bittersweet this year. Sweet because I love snowy mountains and am...
14 December, 2022
Between a rock and a hard place: Pushing for “green energy” mining could replace one catastrophe with another
By Dawnell Smith Clean energy is in the air these days—in the sun,...
22 October, 2022
A Pebble mine update: Can we just let the salmon run?
The Pebble mine proposal has upturned lives and posed a constant threat...
20 September, 2022
On poppy blooms and companionship: Alaska News Brief June 2022
When a Himalayan poppy blooms, you know summer has come. When families saunter...
17 June, 2022
What will it take to permanently protect Bristol Bay? First, speak out.
The EPA is listening, so speak up to protect Bristol Bay salmon,...
16 June, 2022
Stories can teach, stories can lie: Alaska News Brief April 2022
It doesn’t take long spending time with dogs, bears, birds and bees...
15 April, 2022
Permitting process severely underestimates mining spills in Alaska
A report released this month shows that the number of documented spills...
15 April, 2022
The Bristol Bay way = no Pebble mine
This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its next steps and...
19 November, 2021
EPA must protect Bristol Bay once and for all
For years, Alaskans have made it clear that trading salmon for copper...
29 July, 2021
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
Alaska News Brief August 2020: The Long term consequences of greed
Like a lot of you, I feel a sense of chaos and...
23 August, 2020
Ten years is forever until it flies
We’re proud and thrilled that two of our senior staff attorneys have...
21 August, 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
Missing Bella Hammond
Alaska has lost a true gem. Former Alaska First Lady Bella Hammond...
19 March, 2020
Alaska Brief–October 2019
When people use the phrase "for the birds," they trivialize what they consider...
20 November, 2019
We sued Trump’s EPA for gutting protections, clearing path for Pebble
We took Trump’s EPA to court today for breaking the law when...
09 October, 2019
Seattle fish tales
We went to Seattle this month to celebrate the connection between Alaska...
20 September, 2019
Trump’s EPA paves way for Pebble
Politics, power and pandering mean more to the Trump administration than clean water,...
31 July, 2019
Alaska Brief–July
Complicity takes many shapes. It can show up as apathy, distraction, and...
26 July, 2019
Failure is the new complicity
We submitted over 400 pages in comments on the Army Corps’ draft...
19 July, 2019
How does the Army Corps’ draft EIS break the law?
Trustees for Alaska and the Sierra Club Environmental Law Program just submitted...
01 July, 2019
