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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 Judge Finds ADEC Certification of Donlin Gold’s Water Quality Invalid & Orders Certificate Rescinded Department of Environmental Conservation told to rescind certification of Federal wetlands permit for Donlin Gold Mine because the project will violate Alaska’s environmental standards & will not adequately protect salmon habitat Contact: Mark Springer,… Continue reading Judge Finds ADEC Certification of Donlin Gold’s Water Quality Invalid & Orders Certificate Rescinded

**Article reposted from NPR. Link to article here. Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., is sworn in before her Senate confirmation hearing to be interior secretary last month. Her confirmation makes her the United States’ first Native American Cabinet secretary. Jim Watson/AP Deb Haaland, a member of New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo, has become the first Native American… Continue reading Deb Haaland Confirmed as 1st Native American Secretary of the Interior

ONC will be hosting the Science & Culture Camp this summer for Lower Kuskokwim School District high school students (grades 9 – 12, including incoming 9th graders in the fall of 2021 and seniors who graduate in the spring of 2021)! The camp is free and will take place July 22 -August 1, 2021. Apply… Continue reading Science and Culture Camp Applications are LIVE!!!

So what is the Fast-41 Act?  FAST-41 stands for Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act. Therefore, currently covered projects must: involve construction of infrastructure, require authorization or environmental review by a Federal agency, are subject to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), are likely to require a total investment of more than $200 million,… Continue reading Fast-41, Mining, and What It Means for the YK-Delta

Applications for the Gather Food Sovereignty Grant are open until January 14th at 3pm AK time. This opportunity is targeting emerging projects that focus on developing Tribal Food Sovereignty.  Through the first round of the grant, First Nations expects to award up to 13 grant awards of approximately $32,000 to support Native American-led food sovereignty work. The BIA has released Requests… Continue reading Funding and Opportunities (as of January 11)

ONC’s Environmental Program is hoping to gauge what environmental issues are most important to the community. We will put together resources for the community on these issues once they are identified. Please share your email at the end of the survey if you wish to receive resources directly. These resources will also be shared in… Continue reading COMMUNITY SURVEY

WASHINGTON (October 21, 2020) —As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) celebration of Children’s Health Month, the agency released a curriculum to help tribes and all communities protect children from potential lead exposure. The Lead Awareness in Indian Country: Keeping our Children Healthy! curriculum advances the Trump Administration’s commitment to the Federal Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures… Continue reading EPA Releases New Curriculum to Protect Children in Indian Country and Communities from Lead Exposure