SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 9 -- California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued the following news release: Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined a multistate lawsuit, led by Washington and Massachusetts, challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) decision to lease more than one million acres of the protected Coastal Plain, the ecological heart of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In the lawsuit, the coalition of 15 attorneys general assert that excessive develop more PR

JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 15 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news release on Sept. 14: Governor Mike Dunleavy and First Lady Rose Dunleavy are extending their sympathies today to the family and friends of former Alaska Representative Russ Meekins Jr. who passed away yesterday in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Meekins served four terms in the Alaska House during the 8th, 10th, 11th and 12th sessions of the Alaska Legislature. "Russ came from a family that placed public service abo more PR

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, Sept. 17 (TNSJou) -- The University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus issued the following news release: The concentration of mercury in fish in Alaska's Yukon River may exceed EPA mercury criterion by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions are not constrained, according to a new scientific research paper co-authored by a professor at the University of South Florida's St. Petersburg campus. The new report, co-authored by USF Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry  more PR