WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The Center for American Progress issued the following news release: The Brooks Range in northwest Alaska is one of the most remote and pristine mountain regions in the country, but it's at risk of becoming an industrial mining hub that would destroy sensitive wildlife habitats and disrupt life for Alaska Native Tribes. A new column from the Center for American Progress urges the Biden administration to protect the environmental and subsistence values of the Brooks Range   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Dec. 15 -- The Center for Sportfishing Policy (formerly the Center for Coastal Conservation) issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2023: This week, U.S. Representatives Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) wrote NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Janet Coit urging her to suspend further action on proposed changes to the North Atlantic right whale vessel speed rule. The proposed federal   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (TNSres) -- The Institute for Energy Research issued the following agency statement on Dec. 14, 2023: * * * Key Takeaways 1 Copper is an essential mineral for Biden's energy transition, but an anticipated glut has disappeared around the world as politics and technological and economic problems have stopped or stalled projects. A shortage is now predicted by some. 2 The United States has large copper resources, but mines in Alaska, Minnesota and Arizona, which would increa  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The Association of American Medical Colleges issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2023: U.S. medical schools enrolled a more diverse first-year class in the 2023-24 academic year, with increases among some groups but declines in others, according to data released today by the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges). The data show an increase in matriculants among two groups historically underrepresented in medicine: Hispanic, Latino, or of Spanis  more

WESTERVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 13 -- The National Ground Water Association issued the following news release: NGWA Past President Wayne Westberg, MGWC, passed away on December 2. He was 85. Westberg, who served as NGWA president in 1989, founded M-W Drilling Inc. in 1968 in Anchorage, Alaska. Prior to that, Westberg served two tours in Vietnam as a sergeant in U.S. Army intelligence. During his year in office, a new membership category was introduced where employees of member contractor companies co  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 16 -- Sealaska Heritage Institute issued the following news release: The enrollment period for Sealaska scholarship applications is open for the 2024-2025 school year. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2024. However, Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is offering a $50 incentive to those who complete their scholarship application on or before Feb. 1 and who are accepted as scholarship recipients; if selected as a recipient, the $50 will be included in their scholarship awar  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 15 -- The American Sportfishing Association issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2023: This week, U.S. Representatives Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) wrote NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Janet Coit urging her to suspend further action on proposed changes to the North Atlantic right whale vessel speed rule. The proposed federal regulations - now in the final rule making sta  more

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- SETI Institute, a research and education organization whose mission is to lead humanity's quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the Universe, issued the following news release: A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation, had a close encounter with a non-human (aquatic) intelligence. The Whale-SETI team has been studying humpback whale communicatio  more