Relentless.
Alaska Public Media (6/12/24) reports: "A coalition of environmental groups has filed a legal petition with the federal government to reconsider how the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System contributes to climate change and to begin phasing the 800-mile line out of existence. The government first authorized the pipeline right-of-way across federal land in the 1970s, sparking an economic boom that transformed the state. The government reauthorized the pipeline in 2002. But a lot of new information about climate change has come to light in the past two decades that merits a reconsideration, the groups say. 'The federal government has a lot of both responsibility and authority to address the climate crisis, and that’s what we’re asking that they do,' Kay Brown, Arctic policy director for Pacific Environment, said in a phone interview. The other groups making the petition are Center for Biological Diversity, Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. They’re asking the Department of Interior to begin scoping a new environmental analysis for the pipeline, which isn’t due for a renewal until 2034, and to draft a plan to dismantle the pipeline and restore the land corridor."
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"California is not content to stop at your personal vehicles and is pushing to change medium- and heavy-duty trucking and even off-road equipment such as harvesters, lawn mowers and leaf blowers, too."
– Derrick Morgan,
The Heritage Foundation
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