The latest Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Activity Map was released at the end of January and dated December 2025 by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas. Find the map here: ...

The dire state of the endangered Cook Inlet beluga population, which is now below 300 animals and has continued to decline, is blamed on a variety of factors. They include industrial noise, urban ...

Map of Cook Inlet, Alaska, with red pins where underwater recordings used for this study. Stripes show Cook Inlet beluga whale critical habitat, and the blue line shows designated Port of Alaska ...

Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. The Trump administration is planning an oil and gas lease sale in federal territory of the inlet. It is set to be the first of ...

The Badami oil field lies between Prudhoe Bay and Point Thomson on the eastern North Slope. The company that now operates Badami, Cook Inlet Energy, improperly flared natural gas over a six-month ...

Alaska is expecting to see an average of 501,000 barrels of oil produced per day on its lands and waters through the next five years — representing a slight increase due to an expected new slate of ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An environmental review underpinning a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts on endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales, a federal ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Center for Biological Diversity and Cook Inletkeeper filed a petition with the National Marine Fisheries Service today to create a Cook Inlet beluga protection zone in the ...