Challenge to federal approvals for a 211-mile road through the southern Brooks Range and Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve to provide access to a mining district.

Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Bernhardt

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Conservation Groups Filed Challenge to Mining Access Road Through National Park in Alaska

motion

Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Haaland - motion

motion for summary judgment

Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Haaland - motion for summary judgment

Federal Defendants Sought Voluntary Remand to Reconsider Mining Access Road Approvals

response

Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Haaland - response

order

Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Haaland - order

Alaska Federal Court Granted Remand Without Vacatur in Challenge to Road Project

Alaska Federal Court Denied Reconsideration of Remand Without Vacatur in Challenge to Mining Access Road

opposition

Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Haaland - opposition

status report

Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Haaland - status report

Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Haaland - complaint

Filing Year For Action

Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Haaland

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Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

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Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

This sector involves the wholesale and retail selling of goods.

Social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced

People with different national or cultural traditions from the dominant population

Coal is a combustible sedimentary rock formed from carbonised plant matter, rich in carbon and hydrocarbons, and occurring in several main types including hard coal and brown coal.

Either money or something of monetary value is transferred between two or more organisations, people or countries.

Activities that involve planning, designing and building infrastructure, residential, and commercial structures.

A loan is a policy instrument where funds are provided to a borrower with the expectation of repaying the principal plus interest.

Zoning and spatial planning are both methods for guiding the distribution of people and activities in a space, and are regulatory restriction.

Activities of industries that extract natural resources, such as mining, oil, and gas, for commercial use.

Activities of government agencies and institutions that provide public services, enforce laws and manage public resources.

This sector involves activities to move goods and people, alongside the storage of products.

Alaska Federal Court Granted Remand Without Vacatur in Challenge to Road Project

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