Also: The Alaska State Board of Education this week voted to pause controversial emergency regulations that were set to limit local funding for public schools.
President Donald Trump has made Alaska LNG one of his pet projects, and delegations from Asian countries expressed interest as they came to Alaska this week.
The fast-tracked rulemaking process sparked widespread outrage from school administrators who said the regulations would be damaging and that no emergency exists to justify them.
Some of the grant-funded projects, which included wind, solar and battery power, were designed to cut utility bills and create jobs and income in rural Alaska.
The startup planning the operation near the North Slope oil fields would power its computers not with coal but with another fossil fuel: natural gas that’s currently going unused. (via Northern Journal)
Dr. Jay Butler declined to say exactly why he stepped down from the CDC, but he was critical of recent public health decisions under the second Trump administration.
The proposed tax is intended to reduce the borough’s reliance on property taxes while providing a new source of funding for road construction and maintenance, borough officials said. (via Mat-Su Sentinel)
