Alaska Conservation Solutions

Alaska Conservation Solutions supports numerous other conservation groups and individuals in their endeavors to spread knowledge of global warming. Here are some of their reports and articles:

• Alaska Ocean Acidification Petition: Citing the Clean Water Act, the Center for Biological Diversity has requested that Alaska, as well as Washington, Oregon and Hawaii, list the Pacific Ocean as impaired because of carbon dioxide enhanced ocean acidification.
• Trustees for Alaska Amicus Brief on Global Warming
• The Melting Tip of the Iceberg - Alaska Youth Witness the Impacts of Climate Change
• April 15, 2006 interview with Deborah Williams on Air America's Ecotalk
• Businesses Take Action on Global Warming by Dan Purnell. Dan  is a recently retired Hewlett Packard Finance Executive. He is an avid conservationist, philanthropist, wilderness explorer and scuba diver.
• Ocean Acidification by Brian Lax. Ocean Acidification is a new and serious threat to the worldwide ocean ecosystem from global warming.
• Small Businesses Take on Global Warming by Peter Van Tuyn
• Alaska Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reference Case Projections, 1990-2020 by Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Air Quality
• Towards a Clean Energy Future: Energy Policy and Climate Change on Public Lands by Deborah Williams. Read Deborah's written testimony that she submitted to the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on March 20, 2007. 
• How Much Might Climate Change Add to Future Costs for Public Infrastructure? By Peter Larsen and Scott Goldsmith
• Observations of mortality associated with extended open-water swimming by polar bear in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea (2006) by C. Monnett and J.S. Gleason with Mineral Management Service

Bills related to global warming before the 25th Alaska State Legislature - 2007 

• HB53 TITLE: "An Act exempting low-volume oil production facilities from the requirements for oil discharge prevention and contingency plans and proof of financial responsibility." - while not directly related to climate change, this bill sounds like bad news.
• HB 56 TITLE: "An Act establishing the Hydrogen Energy Partnership in the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development; requiring the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development to seek public and private funding for the partnership; providing for the contingent repeal of an effective date; and providing for an effective date."
• HB 63 TITLE: "An Act relating to the alternative energy grant fund and to alternative energy grants."
• HB 73 TITLE: "An Act making a special appropriation for a grant to the Alaska Railbelt Energy Authority Joint Action Agency to construct a wind farm on Fire Island and transmission lines to connect the wind farm to existing electrical infrastructure in Anchorage; and providing for an effective date."
• SB 44 TITLE: "An Act making a special appropriation for a grant to the Alaska Railbelt Energy Authority Joint Action Agency to construct a wind farm on Fire Island and transmission lines to connect the wind farm to existing electrical infrastructure in Anchorage; and providing for an effective date."