Cook Inlet

(Newser) - An offshore drilling pitch in Alaska that was supposed to showcase the Trump-era push for more oil and gas just drew a blank. A federal auction offering drilling rights across more than 1 million acres in Cook Inlet ended this week without a single bid, reports the New York Times ...

(Newser) - The world's largest sockeye salmon fishery, located in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska, is threatened with destruction by a proposed gold mine, which could become the biggest in North America. The planned Pebble Mine has polarized the state; mining companies, on the one hand, and environmentalists and commercial fishing...