Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Givey Kochanowski is the new regional director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for Alaska. The federal agency oversees resource management of the U.S's federal waters — traditionally, that meant oil and gas, but the agency is now setting its sights on renewables.

In a new five-year plan, the Biden Administration will sell the fewest offshore leases in history, and none in Alaskan waters. The last Cook Inlet federal lease sale, in 2022, drew only one bidder.

Industry watchers say the lukewarm response to the hotly contested sale points to a long-term trend of low interest in the inlet's federal waters.

The Department of the Interior announced this week it is canceling a pending auction for up to 1 million acres of leases in Cook Inlet, capping a tumultuous timeline of stopping and starting for the proposed plan.

The federal government said it will continue taking steps toward a potential oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet, after a Louisiana district court judge…

You don’t have to know much about what you’re seeing to make the Ocean Alert app work. Say you’re driving past Turnagain Arm and you see a beluga.“You can…

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is looking for ideas on what to study next.The Environmental Studies Program is aimed at gathering baseline data for…