Alaska
Masks now optional on Alaska ferries
The Alaska Marine Freeway System has dropped its masks mandate, almost two years after imposing it.
“The masks rule on ferries has been lifted for the ferries and the terminals,” stated Sam Dapcevich, a spokesperson for the state Division of Transportation. “So no extra masks required.”
The division introduced the top of its masks requirement on Tuesday, the day after a federal choose struck down a directive from the Biden administration that required masks on public transportation.
The choose’s resolution prompted a set of bulletins from main airways, airports and different public modes of transport nationwide concerning the finish of their masking guidelines.
Dapcevich stated the state ferry system began requiring masks in late June 2020, after a number of outbreaks of COVID-19 on board vessels.
“We didn’t [require masks] at first, and there was an incident on the Tustumena when it was out on a sequence journey…and the ship got here again and was quarantined for some time in Seward,” he stated. “I feel at that time, we instituted a masks mandate.”
Though passengers and workers are now not required to put on masks, the federal Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention nonetheless recommends that individuals put on face coverings whereas indoors and on public transportation to sluggish the unfold of the coronavirus.
Alaska
Alaska Oil, Gas Rule Draws Lawsuit Alleging Agency Overreach (1)
An organization of communities in Alaska’s far north sued the Bureau of Land Management Friday over a rule they said “turns a petroleum reserve into millions of acres of de facto wilderness.”
The lawsuit appears to be one of the first to be filed under the Administrative Procedure Act in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision dismantling the Chevron doctrine.
Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat alleges that BLM’s “NPR-A Rule” forbids oil and gas development in 10.6 million acres of Alaska, and effectively ends any further leasing and development in an additional 13.1 million acres.
The rule is “directly contrary” to Congress’s purpose in creating the Natural Petroleum Reserve in Alaska—to further oil and gas exploration and development, Voice said in its complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Alaska. BLM “disingenuously” claims that the rule “speaks for Alaska Natives,” the group said.
The rule violates several federal laws, including the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. It is therefore arbitrary and capricious under the APA, the complaint says.
Voice is represented by Ashburn & Mason P.C.
The case is Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat v. Bureau of Land Mgmt., D. Alaska, No. 24-136, complaint filed 6/28/24.
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Interior Rejects Alaska Mine Road, Protects 28 Million Acres
The Interior Department on Friday moved to prevent mining across Alaska by blocking a road to the copper-rich Ambler Mining District and protecting 28 million acres of federal land statewide from minerals development.
Ambler Road, a proposed 211-mile mining road across Alaska’s Brooks Range, was formally rejected by the Bureau of Land Management, setting up an expected legal clash with the state.
The Interior Department also took a step toward blocking mining and other development on 28 million acres of federal land known as “D-1″ lands under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The Bureau of Land Management on Friday …
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