Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. A federal oil and gas lease sale that offered about 1 ...

The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources ...

Despite President Donald Trump’s promise to “drill, baby, drill,” a federal oil and gas auction in Cook Inlet generated zero offers from bidders on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, an Alaska oil and gas ...

While a federal oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet fizzled, a sale in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska attracted ...

No companies bid in a federal lease sale mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and only one bid for 20 acres was made as part of Alaska's annual lease sale. A federal lease sale mandated by the ...

The Homer-based environmental nonprofit organization Cook Inletkeeper continues to protest a contentious Cook Inlet oil and gas sale, saying that the federal government is not being transparent about ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— A federally recognized Alaska Native Tribal Nation, along with several community and environmental health and justice groups, notified the Department of the Interior and the Bureau ...

The next federally-mandated Cook Inlet lease sale is scheduled for March 2027.

The Trump administration is soliciting bids for what it intends to be the first in an annual series of oil and gas lease sales in federal waters of Southcentral Alaska’s Cook Inlet. The upcoming sale ...

The first in a series of newly mandated oil and gas lease sales for federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet received no bids, agency officials said on Wednesday. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy ...