Biden-Harris Admin Bars Oil Drilling On 28 Million Acres of Public Lands, Reversing Trump Actions

The Biden-Harris administration finalized a decision to block oil and gas development across 28 million acres of public lands in Alaska, reversing a slate of actions taken in the final days of the Trump administration.

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Trump Promises To Unleash American Energy With Alaskan Oil And Gas

"I'll get it going very quickly because not only is it big for Alaska," Trump said, but also "for the United States."

Repairing the Road to the White House

A strong argument can be made that party primaries are the leading reason our politics is so broken. The two parties have largely evolved into ideological vehicles, with Democrats representing the Left and Republicans now synonymous with the MAGA Right. While the partisan grassroots used to be composed of civic-minded, issue-oriented voters making calls to like-minded supporters to turn out, they're now dominated by the most extreme voices in our body politic who rely on extreme rhetoric and cheap clicks.

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Alaska Dems Alter Platform To Remove Support for Oil and Gas and Call for 'Rapid Transition to Renewable Energy'

The Alaska Democratic Party overhauled its party platform during its recent convention, inserting language in support of aggressive climate policies and rescinding its support for the state's vital fossil fuel industry, which generates the large majority of Alaska's revenue.

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Pentagon Shells Out Half a Million Dollars for ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ Research

The Pentagon awarded nearly $500,000 to a small firm in rural Alaska to research "indigenous knowledge," according to federal records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

What that money will fund exactly is unclear. According to the contract’s description, Northern Social-Environmental Research Inc. will use $499,995 for a "northern social-environmental research proposal" about "advancing methods to engage and apply indigenous knowledge for increased understanding of arctic coastal systems through community-based research."

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To Celebrate Earth Day, The White House Locks Off More Alaskan Earth From American Use

Alaska has suffered from more environmental meddling from Washington bureaucrats than any other state in the country.