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Two Major Cruise Lines Reinstate Mask Mandate for Several Alaska Sailings
Resulting from an elevated variety of confirmed coronavirus instances in Alaska, two main cruise strains have reimplemented obligatory masks protocols for passengers visiting the state.
Based on USA At the moment, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises introduced the return of facial masking necessities for passengers on sure sailings to Alaska, because the state reported over 2,400 new instances over the previous seven days.
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Princess Cruises spokesperson Briana Latter informed USA At the moment that masks could be required for passengers “in any respect indoor areas on northbound and southbound Alaska voyages between Whittier and Vancouver till additional discover.”
Latter additionally stated that whereas facial coverings had been strongly really helpful at most venues on ships crusing in the US, the protocols might turn into obligatory “in choose venues or conditions.”
Holland America Line spokesperson Invoice Zucker informed USA At the moment the cruise line was making an analogous change by requiring masks in all indoor areas, “besides whereas consuming, consuming or in your stateroom.”
Zucker stated the masks necessities would apply to pick Alaska voyages, particularly one-way journeys from Whittier to Vancouver or Vancouver to Whittier. Neither cruise line revealed how lengthy the masks mandates would stay in place.
Earlier this week, Viking introduced it grew to become the primary cruise line to now not require pre-voyage coronavirus testing in locations the place it’s not mandated. Chairman Torstein Hagen stated passengers on Viking Ocean, River and Expedition voyages are extremely really helpful, however not required, to take a COVID take a look at not more than three days earlier than a journey.
Along with lifting pre-cruise testing, Viking will now not conduct day by day onboard COVID checks, however the cruise line will nonetheless make use of medical personnel to supply testing if passengers report signs.
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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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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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