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    Darkness, Light and Hope

    Posted on December 21, 2011 | No Comments
    The Winter Solstice – the darkest day of the year – is my favorite holiday.  It offers the opportunity to reflect on the darkness of the past four seasons, to embrace that darkness and all it has taught us, and to let the darkness go...

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    Court Rejects Old-Growth Clearcuts in the Tongass National Forest

    Posted on August 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Crag recently won a key victory in the fight to preserve old-growth forest and wildlife habitat in the Tongass National Forest.  In the case – Greenpeace v. Cole – the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out four old-growth timber sales that would have logged...

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    Appeals Board Rejects Air Permits for Offshore Drilling in the Arctic

    Posted on January 4, 2011 | No Comments
    Late last week, the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB or Board) in Washington, DC rejected two air permits issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Shell Oil for proposed offshore drilling projects in the Arctic.  The Crag Law Center represented local Inupiat organizations in the...

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    Challenging Arctic Oil Drilling to Protect Native Fishing Grounds

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    The Crag Law Center today filed a legal challenge to an offshore exploration plan approved by the Minerals Management Service in the Beaufort Sea in Alaska.  Crag is working with local Native groups, including the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, a regional tribal government,...

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