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Proposed surcharge on oil would help pay for responses to climate-related disasters in Alaska

Posted 1/16/26

Landslides, storm-driven floods, infrastructure-damaging permafrost thaw and intensifying wildfires are among the expensive disasters that scientists link to Alaska’s rapidly changing climate. Now a state legislator is proposing to levy a 20-cent surcharge on every barrel of Alaska-produced oil to fund programs that respond to and prepare for disasters related to climate change. Rep. Andy […]

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