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State seeks race-based ‘equity study’ to focus resources on minority groups

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State seeks race-based ‘equity study’ to focus resources on minority groups

The State Department of Health and Social Services may spend $50,000 for a contract to create a “COVID 19 Health Equity Strategic Plan” that will redistribute health resources based on race.

The request for proposal deadline is March 30, and the State intends to award the contract three days later.

According to the RFP, the pandemic itself, not the government policies in response to it, has “exposed and exacerbated severe and pervasive health and social inequities. Preventing racial disparities in uptake of a COVID-19 vaccine, testing efforts, and other COVID-19 mitigation efforts will be important for helping to reduce the disproportionate impacts of the virus on Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and preventing widening racial, age or income related health disparities.”

That statement may be contradicted by the now nationally heralded success of vaccine distribution across Alaska. In some rural communities that are largely Native, the vaccination rate of those over 16 years old is now over 98 percent.

Further, the state contract will help the State of Alaska in “engaging stakeholders and partners to identify barriers to health and social services experienced during the pandemic. The contractor will assist the state of Alaska in identifying goals and objectives to strategically address health inequities.”

According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible,” the RFP says. “This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.”

The successful bidder will become part of the State’s “Health Equity Team” and facilitate and lead stakeholders and partners in an organized direction to address health equity.

The contractor will be responsible to help lead the Health Equity Team to define populations disproportionately impacted by COVID 19, but also other disease outbreaks as part of a five-year strategic plan to redistribute health resources to black, indigenous, and people of color, but perhaps other groups as well.

Those interested in bidding on the project can find all the specifications at this link.

Mr. Dundersnatch for mayor of Anchorage

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Mr. Dundersnatch for mayor of Anchorage

By FORREST NABORS

Anchorage badly needs an energetic, practical mayor who can solve obvious problems, will support job-sustaining businesses and is guided by traditional American principles. A vote for Mike Robbins is a vote for that kind of mayor.

Mr. Dundersnatch, some might recall, is the on-air name I ascribed to my boss when I was host of the eponymously named Forrest Nabors Show on the radio station KOAN. But truth be told, Mike Robbins was my boss and the owner of the station, and is now running for mayor. I am glad to report that Mike is nothing like the fabled Dundersnatch on the 50th floor of the mythical KOAN Tower, jealously guarding his stacks of gold bullion and T-bonds.

No, Mike was neither born with a silver spoon in his mouth nor was spoiled by his fair share of success that he has earned on his own. The real Mr. Dundersnatch rose from modest origins and is still very hard-working. Like many of us, Mike has faced personal challenges and setbacks but he overcame those challenges through perseverance, optimism, guts, the quiet renewal of his faith and a quick mind.

As one who pulled himself up by his bootstraps in good American fashion and who did not enjoy many advantages gifted to others, Mike respects character, ability, performance and results. He doesn’t care a fig for status, credentials and titles – as one should not in a free republic – when taking the measure of himself and others.

For many years Mike has been actively engaged in political and civic life, usually as a helping hand, or organizer behind the politicians. This is the first time he has thrown himself into the electoral arena. Why now? I suspect the reason has something to do with the frustration that I often heard from his office adjoining my radio booth, the same frustration that many of us felt, as bad news mounted in 2020.

Perhaps it is fair to say that the worst news last year was not the pandemic, political violence in the streets, the enthusiastic suppression of civil liberties and our disastrous national election. The worst was the shocking political theater that attended those events. Many of us could feel too keenly that partisan madness was interfering with good judgment. Some of that madness spread here from the lower 48 and infected our municipal government, as we all saw. 

In times like these we need the officers of local government no less than national government to show steadiness and spine. We need them to rebuff demands that we curse and transform America, and that we submit to dystopian schemes. The premium on courage and patriotism in every office all over America has risen. Now presented to you on this year’s ballot for mayor is one candidate who understands that need and will bring the corrective to Anchorage.

Our challenges in Anchorage are not difficult to understand and are not insoluble. The problem is that in times like these, once good candidates take office their political will often disappears. I am confident that with Mike Robbins as your mayor, the appeal of radical chic will never influence municipal policy. Anchorage will not copy-cat the wild social experiments in Seattle, Portland and San Francisco and will not share in the inevitably disastrous consequences. Our city, this little patch of America where we still proudly wave the flag without apology, will not become like them as we should not. 

Mike will not be deterred by partisan threats and he will work with anyone of any political stripe who aims at improving our municipality. He will apply common sense to problems. Policy supportive of job-creating businesses will be his first priority, not the last. He will respect your need to work and your civil liberties. 

Under a Robbins mayoral administration, Anchorage will be back on track. 

Forrest Nabors is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at UAA, and has served on the UAA Faculty Senate since 2012. He writes in his personal capacity here.

Passing of a House Speaker: Gail Phillips

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Passing of a House Speaker: Gail Phillips

Former House Speaker Gail Phillips died on the morning of March 25, 2021.

Born in 1944 in Juneau, Alaska, she was raised in Nome and lived in Homer and Anchorage, as well as in Juneau.

Phillips had been inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame in 2015. The biographer of the Hall of Fame wrote this of her life:

When asked why she has been known her entire life by her middle name, Gail says when she was born there was a popular song called “Ramona.” However, an older cousin who was living with the family at that time was named Ramona so in an effort to keep the two separate, Phillips’ folks started calling her by her middle name – it stuck and she only uses Ramona when signing legal documents.

Gail is a champion promoter of Alaska and its history says one of her younger sisters in her nomination of Phillips. She continued by saying Phillips has always been outspoken for the rights and betterment of all people.

Leadership comes naturally to Phillips. She was named one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Alaskans by the Alaska Journal of Commerce four times. In 1995 she was the highest ranking woman on the Journal list placing number 7; placing number 11 in 1996, number 5 in 1997, and number 14 in 1998. Some of the reasons are obvious. She was elected twice as speaker of the Alaska State House, serving four years (1995-1998) and she was the majority leader prior to that (from 1993-1994).

Of national note: when an Alaska ferry was being held hostage by Canadian fishing boats, Phillips was not going to be bullied. She stated to the media that the ferry was much larger than any of the fishing boats and that the captain should just get himself out of there.

In the mid-nineties Phillips, with other western legislative, county and local officials, along with some business people who together represented more than 44 million Americans, formed the Western States Coalition. This was done so they could speak with one voice to the federal government about their common concerns. “This is a very good thing for Alaska so we are not so isolated,” said Phillips in a news release. She served as co-chairman of the group from 1995- 1998.

During her State House speakership, Phillips delighted in inviting and conducting the U.S. House speaker and two Florida congressmen on a Western States Coalition tour of Alaska where she had the opportunity to talk about some of favorite subjects: tourism, economic development, international trade and military and veterans’ affairs.

Even in her younger years Phillips was a leader. While in high school she was elected to the student council and became their president. She served on the legislative (student) council for three years while attending the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. A lifetime Republican, she was an active member of the Young Republicans serving as president both in high school and university.

Phillips has lived almost exclusively in Alaska, the middle of five generations of her family. Only while Walt, her husband whom she met at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, was on temporary assignment with the trans-Alaska (Alyeska) pipeline design team, did she live in Texas (1971-1973).

After coming back to Alaska in 1973, the Phillips first lived in Anchorage, and then settled in Homer in 1978. They lived there until after she left the Legislature.

Phillips was born in Juneau to the pioneering Ost family but left as an infant and was raised in Nome. She attended public schools grades 1 – 12 with her six younger sisters then went on to attend the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Phillips graduated in 1967 with a B.A. degree in business education. She has also taken a variety of additional courses there.

Phillips life isn’t all about politics. The “Iditarod bug” bit her and her husband early in the formation of the race. They became dedicated volunteers. One of her first jobs was making presentations to many local communities with Joe Redington, known as the father of the great dog race. In 1975 Phillips and her husband arranged for a babysitter for their young daughters, Robin and Kim, spending many evening hours volunteering at the race headquarters after work. As the years passed, both their daughters also became avid supporters.

In 1975 Phillips was elected to the board of directors serving through 1979. She took on the all consuming duties of race coordinator for the 1977, 1978 and 1979 races, and was the last person to fulfill this position on a totally volunteer basis. Phillips and her husband were the first officers or board members that were neither dog mushers nor directly connected to the race. At the beginning of 2015, they were two of 11 people called The Old Iditarod Gang who authored, published and distributed a seven-pound, 422-page coffee table book, an anthology about the first 10 years of the Iditarod called Iditarod – First Ten Years. They used Kickstart to raise the initial money. Both look forward to volunteering at the next great race.

Owning and managing a business in Homer, Quiet Sports Store, from 1978-1984 just wasn’t enough for the energetic Phillips. She became active in the Alaska Visitors Association; was elected vice chair of the Homer Convention and Visitors Association (1979-1980), and then served as president of the Homer Chamber of Commerce (1980-1981). From that position she ran for city council; to quote the Homer News, Oct. 1, 1981, she was “an outspoken advocate of tourism and we believe she would do a good job.” She served from 1981-1984. No longer owning the store, she ran for the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly and served from 1986 to 1988 and also chaired the Alaska Municipal League’s Legislative Committee 1986-1988.

During most of this time she also was the elected state secretary (1982-1988) of the Republican Party of Alaska’s State Central Committee. She was a member of the University of Alaska College of Fellows, as well as the Kenai Peninsula College Council where she was chair and board member. The granddaughter of Methodist missionaries, she was a member of the Homer United Methodist Church. As a member of the Resource Development Council’s statewide board she continued her pro-development activities and is a long time member of Igloo #1 and Igloo#14, Pioneers of Alaska.

In 1983, Phillips and her husband, with one of her sisters and her husband (Barbara and Stan Lindskoog), combined their two last names to form Lindphil Mining Company. The two families, including their four daughters, formed the work crew that actively mined Goose Creek about 50 miles inland from Nome for about six years. They worked their medium-sized placer mine from the time the ground thawed until their sluice box froze or about the first of July through the middle of September. In 1989 they sold their claims to a larger company.

In 1988 Phillips ran for the State House but was defeated. She went to Juneau anyway working as a legislative aide to Senate President Tim Kelly for the next two years.

1990 brought a different result to her campaign for the State House. She was the top vote getter from among the Democrats and Republicans in the primary and went on to win the general election by almost 1,000 votes. Thus her Legislative career began. The last two of 10 years in the State House she served as the powerful Legislative Budget & Audit Committee chair.

In Phillips’ last election she ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 2002. She has since formed Alaska Campaign Strategies and has participated in a number of winning campaigns.

Other positions Phillips has held include:
Alaska 50th Anniversary Celebration Commission Chair, 2004-2006
Industry Liaison, Dept. of Labor – Business Partnership, 2006
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, 2003-2006

Phillips has received a number of awards, some are:
Canadian Consul’s “Smashed Brick Award,” 2003
YWCA’s “Woman of Achievement” Award, 2009
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, “Anchorage ATHENA Society” member, 2003
UAF’s “Distinguished Alumnus” Award, 2013

Rivera goes on attack against the public

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Rivera goes on attack against the public

In a video ad playing on Facebook, Anchorage Assembly Chairman Felix Rivera is burning up the airtime by mocking his critics.

The man who arrived with a box over his head to protest the mask ordinance is mocked.

The woman who burned a mask at the podium is laughed at.

And Rivera reserves special distain for Dustin Darden, a municipal employee who is running for Assembly and who is a frequent critic of the municipality.

In fact, Rivera, who is facing a recall election, seems to be saying, like mayoral candidate Forrest Dunbar is saying, that the critics of the mayor and assembly are unhinged.

“The reason people are being theatrical in these meetings is it’s the only thing that works anymore,” said Russell Biggs, who has led the charge on the Recall Rivera campaign. “You can’t go in and have a reasonable conversation with the Assembly. The reason these meetings are so out-of-control is that people feel they are not being listened to.”

Over 5,000 people signed the petition to recall Rivera on the April 6 ballot.

But Rivera’s supporters, including the AFL-CIO, and the National Education association (NEA) are mounting an aggressive counter-campaign to place Rivera in a flattering light, as one who has helped reduce homelessness and crime in Anchorage, and who is helping to make Anchorage a livable city.

Interview with Russell Biggs: The journey to recall Felix Rivera from Anchorage Assembly

The Great Alaska Sausage Factory

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The Great Alaska Sausage Factory

By CHRIS NYMAN

We all know the metaphor: Love the sausage but don’t want to know how its made.

That is also a great metaphor for our state government where we all enjoy the benefits of government largesse but don’t want to trouble ourselves with the basic facts of how it’s paid for.

Alaska has to be the most confused state in the union because liberals and conservatives fight against and for the same issues all at the same time.

I am very conservative by most standards. I just want to see the State of Alaska balance its budget honestly and meet its obligations to its creditors and the public.

I don’t care if you tax us or cut spending, eliminate the dividend or go after the oil companies; just face the reality of the fiscal path we have been pursuing for the past 10 years. It is unsustainable. 

I would say blame has to go to every quarter of the spectrum. R’s, D’s, and the general public too.

So let’s all be the bigger person and agree that we must balance the budget, one way or another. Maybe oil taxes should be adjusted. Maybe we need a small income tax. Maybe we should cut some popular programs like Medicaid.

But none of this is possible while we continue to pay a cash dividend. Despite the flawed recommendation of ISER many years ago, the dividend is not a useful purpose of government.

I am not saying that government should spend it instead. But the simple fact is we have not enough money coming in to fund everything. I maintain the best thing we can do is to suspend the dividend. The federal funding this year will easily replace the supposed dividend benefit to the economy.

Let us change our way of thinking on the dividend. Let’s right our ship of State and seek a sustainable future. Let’s focus on the principles of what a constitutional government does best and reduce what it does not do best.

The dividend should be eliminated or substantially reformed to become a tax-exempt benefit to every Alaskan. But we really cannot even think about reform right now because there is no excess income to the State.

That could change.

We have seen the Permanent Fund grow historically beyond the rate of inflation. If that continues, the Permanent Fund could someday produce enough income to pay for State government and have surplus funds for a “dividend” of some type. But if we spend down the Permanent Fund now, that future becomes more difficult.

We are the luckiest people in the world. We are so fortunate to live here in Alaska in the most free country in the world. Then on top of that we have an oil-derived trust fund that can sustainably deliver $3 billion per year to fund the operation of our government and its resulting benefits. Otherwise we would have much fewer services or pay much higher taxes. 

All we have to do now is balance the budget. Honestly.

Chris Nyman writes occasionally for Must Read Alaska.

NTSB report: Andy Teuber was distraught over pending ADN story before heli crash

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NTSB report: Andy Teuber was distraught over pending ADN story before heli crash

The late Andy Teuber, on his own wedding day, could not convince the Anchorage Daily News to hold the scandalous story about him for even a few hours.

Teuber, who had rushed back to Anchorage from out of state one day after getting married, dashed to Merrill Field and got into his helicopter to head to Kodiak, so he could explain to his family what was about to happen to him in Alaska’s biggest newspaper: He was about to be exposed for a salacious relationship he had with an employee at Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium.

He was the big CEO, and the woman in question, an employee and former lover, was going to take him down.

The National Transportation Safety Board report indicates that Teuber was rushed, and probably tired. His helicopter crashed en route.

“He (another pilot for Kodiak Helicopters) commented to the Kodiak Helicopters pilot that he wanted to be in Kodiak, and with his family, when a local news story involving him was scheduled to publish,” the NTSB report says.

It’s a rare day when the NTSB makes mention that a newspaper event may have prompted an accident. The wording is careful, the the implication is clear: Andy Teuber was not in his right mind to pilot his helicopter to Kodiak.

Even the Anchorage Daily News story on the NTSB report indicates that the rush to print their story was a possible contributing factor to Teuber’s death.

“The helicopter company pilot told investigators that Teuber said he was trying to fly from Merrill Field in Anchorage to Kodiak to be with family, the report said,” the ADN reported.

“The story, published later that day by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica, detailed allegations of harassment and sexual misconduct made in a Feb. 23 resignation letter to the ANTHC board from a former assistant, Savanah Evans, including accusations he ‘unrelentingly coerced, forced and required sex’ of her,” the newspaper reported.

The allegations being made by Evans were disputed by Teuber, who provided answers to the ADN’s questions, saying it was a consensual relationship. He also told the newspaper that he would be able to show them text messages between the two former lovers that proved it was consensual — text messages that the newspaper could not get Evans to show. But the newspaper didn’t want to wait.

Craig Medred, writer at CraigMedred.News, picks up the story from there:

Teuber is now dead and will never know why the rush to publication if ADN reporters and editors ever do explain. So far they have stayed silent.

As is well known to most Alaskans today, Teuber – a one-time member of the University of Alaska Board of Regents along with being the ANTHC president – never made it to Kodiak. The National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday declared him dead in its preliminary investigation into the disappearance of the black-and-white R66 he was flying.

The turbine-powered, five-seat helicopter “is presumed destroyed after it impacted ocean waters about 70 miles north of Kodiak,” the report said.

The report also indicates Teuber was in a big hurry to get home. A satellite tracker has the helicopter flying in excess of its recommended cruising speed just before it went down.

Little debris has been found and the exact cause of the accident might never be known, but the NTSB report also indicates Teuber was not in a good mental state to be at the controls.

Read more about the rush to print and the link to an untimely death at CraigMedred.news:

Speed kills

Craig Campbell: Dave Bronson demonstrated command leadership in the face of impending catastrophe

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Craig Campbell: Dave Bronson demonstrated command leadership in the face of impending catastrophe

By  CRAIG E. CAMPBELL

On Sept. 22, 1995, an E-3A Airborne Early Warning Aircraft Systems aircraft with 24 Canadian and US aircrew members onboard departed Elmendorf AFB on a routine mission.  

Forty-two seconds after take-off the aircraft hit a flock of geese, destroying all four engines. The plane crashed less than a mile from the airbase, killing all on board.

Fast forward to Jan. 15, 2009: At 3:25 pm U.S. Airways Flight 1549 lifted off from LaGuardia Airport, New York, bound for Charlotte. With 150 passengers and a crew of five, it was to be a routine flight of just under two hours.  

Two minutes into the flight, Flight 1549 struck a flock of geese. The Airbus 320 lost full power in both engines at an altitude less than 3,000 feet above the ground.

The pilot and co-pilot trimmed the plane for maximum glide, declared an emergency with air traffic control, and considered all alternatives.

There were only two options, return to LaGuardia or ditch in the Hudson River. The crew determined they could not make it back to LaGuardia, so the decision was made to make a water landing, later dubbed the “Miracle on the Hudson.”

During the accident investigation, the crew was questioned as to why they had not returned to LaGuardia, where emergency equipment had already been activated to respond.

What was learned is that human reaction time is always a factor in human activities. When flying a complex aircraft under emergency conditions, with multiple tasks that must be accomplished to safely operate the aircraft, it takes about 35 seconds to evaluate the situation and determine the best course of action. Captain Chesley Sullenberger evaluated the situation and made the correct determination that resulted no loss of life.

I have a friend who was a commercial pilot. He flew the Airbus 330. While flying the aircraft as co-pilot on a routine flight one afternoon from Seattle to Hong Kong, his aircraft experienced a bird strike in an engine at take-off. However, unlike US Airways 1549, neither engine failed. The gauges, while experiencing a short fluctuation, appeared normal.

The captain suggested they continue to Hong Kong. My friend the co-pilot considered all options and disagreed. Just because the gauges seemed fine and the engines appeared operating, there could be damage that would create an emergency later in flight, possibly over the open ocean without an emergency airport nearby. He recommended returning to Seattle out of caution about the unknown.

Christian Volpati photo / Wikimedia.

Upon landing it was verified that because of internal damage to the engine the flight would not have been able to safely make it to Hong Kong.

In this situation, my friend evaluated the situation, considered options, discussed them with his captain, and made a conservative recommendation that proved to be the right decision.

That is the kind of person Anchorage needs to be our next mayor. That person is Dave Bronson.

Despite what critics say, Dave is a person who handles critical events with the calm and analytical attitude we need in our city today. As a B-1 and B-52 aircraft commander, military leader, and commercial airline senior captain, Dave has the maturity and balanced temperament to make a great mayor. He will bring with him a team experienced in government and business to build an administration that reverses the spiraling destruction of Anchorage caused by six years of inept actions by the current mayor and an uber-liberal assembly.

He will establish a business council to guide him on changes necessary to revitalize our city after the crushing shut-down actions of the past year. He will work with non-profit and religious organizations to address the vagrancy problems head-on, no longer enabling homelessness, but providing alternatives to get people off the street and back into productive society.

Dave will not defund police, but rather will bolster efforts of law enforcement to make Anchorage a safe and secure community.

I didn’t write this piece to brag about Dave’s exceptional aviation skills, but rather to highlight his calm approach to problem solving using an analytical process based on facts, not emotion. Dave’s background is exactly what Anchorage needs to bring our city back as a vibrant, prosperous, and proud community. We need Dave Bronson as our next mayor.

Please vote for Dave to Save Anchorage.

Craig E. Campbell served on the Anchorage Assembly between 1986 and 1995 and later as Alaska’s Tenth Lieutenant Governor.  He was the previous Chief Executive Officer and President for Alaska Aerospace Corporation.  He retired from the Alaska National Guard as Lieutenant General (AKNG) and holds the concurrent retired Federal rank of Major General (USAF). Photo above by Christian Volpati, Wikimedia.

Scott Jepsen appointed to University Board of Regents

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Scott Jepsen appointed to University Board of Regents

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy appointed Scott Jepsen to the University of Alaska Board of Regents. Mr. Jepsen will serve the term of March 23, 2021 through February 6, 2023. 

Jepsen, who recently retired from ConocoPhillips, received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and has 31 years of experience in the Alaska oil and gas industry. Jepsen served for nine years on the board of directors for the University of Alaska Foundation, including a two-year term as chair.

Additional public involvement includes president of the board of directors for Commonwealth North, senior vice president of the board of directors for the Resource Development Council, former president of the Petroleum Club of Anchorage, and former board member of the board of directors for Alaska Public Media.

He replaces Andy Teuber, who died in a helicopter crash last month. Teuber had been appointed by Gov. Bill Walker.

Andy Teuber resignation is latest health chief departure

Alaska joins 13 other states in suing Biden Administration over oil and gas moratorium

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Alaska joins 13 other states in suing Biden Administration over oil and gas moratorium

Fourteen U.S. states, including Alaska, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Biden Administration over its moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal land and waters.

Alaska is part of a 13-state coalition that filed a lawsuit in federal court in Louisiana. The coalition is made up of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia, according to a report from Reuters.

The 14th state, Wyoming, filed its own lawsuit in federal court in that state.

As one of the first acts of his presidency, Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office to stop new leasing on federal property in leasing programs managed by the Department of the Interior.

“We fear that President Biden’s attack on federal oil and gas leasing has only begun, and the State must be involved to protect the interests of all Alaskans in the responsible development of the bountiful natural resources contained within Alaska,” said Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy. 

“As today marks the 32nd anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill at Bligh Reef, we reflect on the ways in which we have incorporated precautions to ensure an event like this will never occur again. The petroleum resources that are so important to Americans and our economy will need to be developed from somewhere in the world. We’re proud of the efforts we make to responsibly develop and transport oil to meet American demand, and we’re only getting better,” he said.

Breaking: Biden to put moratorium on ANWR on Wednesday afternoon
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