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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Alaska Newsletter for 2024-12-15 ( 4 items )  
Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Still at Risk from Oil Drilling (10)
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Dec. 9 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Anchorage, AK The decades-long battle to defend Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is likely to heat up again in the new year, as oil drilling in the remote landscape was named as an agenda item in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 initiative. Even before the incoming administration takes office, the Biden administration's Department of Interior is expected to hold a lease sal more PR

Coalition Sues EPA Over Weak Regulation of Toxic Flame Retardant Found in Black Plastic Kitchen Utensils (10)
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Dec. 12 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: San Francisco, CA Earthjustice, representing the Yurok Tribe, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, the Center for Environmental Transformation, and the Consumer Federation of America, filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging its 2024 rule on decaBDE, a toxic flame retardant linked to cancer, reproductive issues, and harm to children's brain development more PR

EPA Enfrenta Demanda por Laxa Norma Sobre Peligrosas Sustancias Quimicas en Electrodomesticos y Muebles (10)
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Dec. 12 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Hoy, Earthjustice, en representacion de la tribu Yurok, Alaska Community Action on Toxics y el Centro para la Transformacion Ambiental, presento una demanda contra la Agencia de Proteccion Ambiental (EPA) impugnando su norma de gestion de riesgos de este ano con respecto al decaBDE, un peligroso grupo de sustancias quimicas que lleva por nombre "retardantes de llama" y que esta vincula more PR

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: Alaska to Resume Aerial Gunning of Bears and Wolves (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility issued the following news release: * * * Strafing Predators Aims to Increase Moose and Caribou Hunting Permits * * * The State of Alaska is poised once again to take to the air to shoot on sight hundreds of wolves and bears, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The latest plan would use state Department of Fish and Game gunners in helicopters, snowmobiles, and other equipment to elimina more PR