Sustainable North

From The Associated Press, Wednesday, January 27, 2010: A proposal by Gov. Sean Parnell to suspend Alaska’s motor fuels tax may undermine federal transportation funding, U.S. Rep. Don Young said Tuesday. In a statement, the Republican lawmaker commended Parnell, also a Republican, for trying to relieve Alaskans’ “pain at the pump.” But he added: “By [...]

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From The Associated Press, Wednesday, January 13, 2010: On winter days when the air is still and Fairbanks area residents fire up their wood stoves and outdoor boilers, Alaska’s second largest city becomes entombed in a shroud of pollution. The problem is due in part to wood stoves and outdoor boilers that belch out small [...]

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The Science for Alaska Lecture Series presents: New Energy for Alaska Communites Gwen Holdmann, Director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power for the University of Alaska 7:00 pm, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 in the Westmark Gold Room, Fairbanks Click here for more information.

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From Alaska Dispatch, Wednesday, December 23, 2009: Massive initial interest in a state program to help people make their homes more energy efficient could be tapering off, even as some areas of the state face the likelihood of increased home heating costs in coming years. As of Dec. 16, nearly 19,000 Alaskans have started the [...]

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From CBC News, Tuesday, December 15, 2009: A new study suggests the financial burden of Arctic climate change is already falling on Inuit people and the heaviest costs are hurting those families least able to pay. The study backs demands made by Inuit leaders for a share of global funds being proposed to help adapt [...]

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From the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wednesday, November 11, 2009: Current optimism for a continued economic turnaround is driving oil prices higher, despite high inventories, according to the DOE’s Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA released its monthly “Short-Term Energy Outlook” on November 10. Its forecast [...]

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From the New York Times on Thursday, February 5, 2009: President Obama ordered the Energy Department on Thursday to immediately draft long-overdue standards to make a variety of appliances and light bulbs more energy efficient. Over the last three decades, Congress has demanded stricter efficiency standards on 30 categories of products, as varied as residential [...]

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From the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy office, posted on 2/18/09, retrieved on Friday, March 6, 2009: President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, and the tax section of the act provides greater tax credits for clean energy projects at homes and businesses [...]

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From the Anchorage Daily News on Sunday, February 8, 2009: Gov. Sarah Palin plans to introduce a bill calling for creating a joint corporation of the six Railbelt electric utilities. Palin says such an entity could unite a “fragmented group of rival utilities” and could save rate payers $40 million annually. The utilities are Fairbanks-based [...]

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From the Arctic Sounder on Thursday, January 29, 2009: State officials assessing hardships on the lower Yukon River area for a possible disaster declaration said they’ll push to create a fuel voucher that could help the poorest families. After two days of listening to crushing testimony from scores of residents in Emmonak and Kotlik, the [...]

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