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- 11/19/08 - Democrat Mark Begich Defeats Republican Sen. Ted Stevens in Alaska Election for U.S. Senate
- 10/16/08 - Bayer Facing A Billion Dollars in Lawsuits After Polluting Thousands of Rice Fields with Genetically Engineered Rice
- 09/19/08 - Sarah Palin's Dead Lake
- 09/10/08 - An Alaska Native Speaks Out on Palin, Oil, and Alaska
- 09/09/08 - Bioprospectors Head North for Arctic DNA
- 09/04/08 - Chart Shows Climate / Hunger / Energy / Resource Depletion Doomsday Clock is Ticking
- 09/04/08 - Arctic Melting Shows Global Warming Serious
- 09/02/08 - Top Ten Most Disturbing Facts and Impressions of Sarah Palin
- 08/28/08 - The Rise of 'The Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party'
- 08/28/08 - Don't Risk Hurting Bristol Bay Salmon
- 08/27/08 - Chemical Pollutants Likely Culprits in Rising Birth Defects
- 08/22/08 - Grassroots Direct Action: San Francisco Voters Nov. 4 Will Tell Their Congress Reps to Defund the War
- 08/09/08 - Has Your Town Declared Peace Yet?
- 08/04/08 - Warming Waters Pose Threats to Alaska Salmon, Could Reorder Marine Ecosystems
- 07/30/08 - Melting Permafrost Poses Threats to Infrastructure, Alaska Economy
- 07/29/08 - Farmers Grow Local Markets for Alaska Produce
- 07/21/08 - Funding Biomass Fuels May Be a Hurdle
- 07/21/08 - The Case for Alaskan Grown
- 07/21/08 - Yukon Flats Villages Opposed to Drilling
- 07/19/08 - Denali National Park Goes Greener With New Hybrid Commercial Bus From IC Bus
- 07/18/08 - Alaska Newborns at Higher Risk for Defects
- 07/17/08 - Turning the Power Back on in Juneau
- 07/15/08 - Global Warming Prompts Polar Station Evacuation
- 07/11/08 - Suit Filed to Stop Timber Sales in Alaska's Tongass
- 07/10/08 - Conservation Groups Sue to Protect Arctic Marine Mammals
- 07/02/08 - Begich: Opening ANWR Key to Energy Plan
- 07/01/08 - Climate-Change Litigation: Will the Legal Strategy that Brought Down Big Tobacco Work Against Big Oil?
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Last Updated 8/3/08
Alaska Legislative Roundup
From Progressive States Network)
The entire legislative session was upstaged by an on-going federal corruption investigation involving industry lobbyists and four current and former legislators. Amidst indictments alleging bribery, extortion and money laundering, the legislature enacted ethics reforms requiring fuller disclosure of legislators' outside income, slowing the revolving door between state employment and private-sector lobbying, and restricting meals and gifts from lobbyists.
Outside of the ethics bill, the session may be better known for what the legislature failed to do, punting bills that would have prevented oil companies from deducting the costs of repairs to oil fields due to their own mismanagement, failing to enact long-term school funding, and failing to expand health benefits for seniors in long term care and children. Fortunately, the legislature also failed to put out a referendum that would ban court-ordered benefits to same-sex partners of public employees. One small victory for renewable energy in the oil-rich state was funding to connect the city of Anchorage's electric grid to a wind-farm.
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The Green Jobs Act of 2007 authorized $125 million per year to create an Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Program as an amendment to the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). The Green Jobs Act (GJA) is an initial pilot program to identify needed skills, develop training programs, and train workers for jobs in a range of industries - including energy efficient building, construction and retrofits, renewable electric power, energy efficient vehicles, biofuels, and manufacturing that produces sustainable products and uses sustainable processes and materials. It targets a broad range of populations for eligibility, but has a special focus on creating "green pathways out of poverty."
Congress has not yet appropriated money for the Green Jobs Act. Please contact your Senator today and urge them to fund the Green Jobs Act of 2007!
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