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Northern Alaska Environmental Center

“The Northern Alaska Environmental Center promotes conservation of the environment and sustainable resource stewardship in Interior and Arctic Alaska through education and advocacy.”

1 funder on the record, 1 live lawsuit.

Home groundFairbanks, AK
Founded1971
Find themnorthern.org ↗

Every way to help ↓

Right nowGates of the Arctic (Ambler Road): Ambler Metals initiates Arctic mine permitting1 case live in federal court

The origin

How they started

The Northern Alaska Environmental Center has worked out of Fairbanks since 1971 to protect public lands in Interior and Arctic Alaska, through grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, legal intervention and public education. It’s the first-named plaintiff in the suit over Public Land Order 7966, which opened about 2.1 million acres of D-1 lands along the Dalton corridor to mining.

How they run

Small and lean

We don’t hold a detailed federal filing for this group. Groups this size often file the short form or run below the IRS reporting line, so there’s no budget or crew to show here, and that’s no knock: some of the sharpest local defense in the country runs this way.

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The backers

Backed on the record by 444S Foundation, latest filing FY24.

The record

The court record

Gwich’in Steering Committee v. United States Department of the Interior
activeAgency procedurePlaintiffCourt record
Sovereign Inupiat for a Living Arctic v. United States Bureau of Land Management
closedEnvironmental reviewPlaintiffCourt record
Sovereign Inupiat for a Living Arctic v. Bureau of Land Management
closedEnvironmental reviewPlaintiffCourt record

Year by year

The record, in order

  1. 1971Northern Alaska Environmental Center is formed.the return, formation year
  2. 2020Gwich’in Steering Committee v. United States Department of the Interior: plaintiff, still in court.the docket
  3. 2022First appears in 444S Foundation’s grants.the funder’s return
  4. 20232 cases filed, all closed: Sovereign Inupiat for a Living Arctic v. United States Bureau of Land Management; Sovereign Inupiat for a Living Arctic v. Bureau of Land Management.the docket

Rust, a case still in court. Green, a funder’s return. Hollow, a filing. Every row is a record we hold: 3 federal cases with the group on the docket, 1 funder whose returns name it. Nothing here is written from memory.

Their ground

The places they defend

On the ground · Comments close Nov 2Gates of the Arctic (Ambler Road)

First-named plaintiff in Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Trump, the Ambler road suit filed in 2020

Who’s defending it

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Where and what
Works onArctic · mining · D-1 lands
Active inAlaska
Who writes the rules where they work

The Alaska congressional delegation averages 4 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard

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Ways in

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Sources and methodCourt record: CourtListener dockets in the MTJP litigation database (1 linked case: 1 active). Funders: the funders’ own returns (Schedule I and 990-PF Part XV) via ProPublica, names and years only. Place links: MTJP editorial curation with per-link sources. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.