Kay Brown currently serves as Arctic Policy Director for Pacific Environment based in Anchorage. She is a former Director of Oil and Gas for the State of Alaska and a former Alaska State Representative.
Recent technology breakthroughs have unlocked the potential production of many billions of barrels of Alaska ’s high viscosity heavy oil, a development not yet accounted for in U.S. climate strategy. Federal intervention is needed now to keep this heavy oil carbon bomb in the ground.
requires that an existing EIS must be supplemented whenever there is new information or circumstances relevant to environmental concerns, or if there are significant environmental impacts that were not evaluated. A lot has changed since 2002—more than 20 years of science have increased understanding of the causes, impacts, and necessary actions to address the climate emergency. The contributions of fossil fuels to greenhouse gas emissions have been irrefutably documented.
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