U.S. Sen Lisa Murkowski was alone in stridently opposing Trump’s blanket pardon for Jan. 6 defendants, and his order to rename Denali as Mount McKinley.

The projects aim to decrease emissions, lower energy costs and support local infrastructure in rural communities.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy is highlighting the impacts that some of President Donald Trump’s executive orders will have on Alaska.

Alaskan oil and gas analyst Larry Persily was hesitant to declare the president’s policies a big win for the state. “Alaskans should not expect another boom out of this for oil and gas,” Persily said.

A sweeping executive order signed by President Donald Trump during the first hours of his second term aims to boost Alaska’s natural resource industry by reversing environmental protections that limit oil and gas extraction, logging, and other development projects across the state.

President Donald Trump's executive order to boost oil drilling, mining, and logging in Alaska was met with enthusiasm by some state leaders and worry by environmental groups.

So we’re opening up ANWR,” Trump said at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. The order calls for new leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and much more. It covers nearly every major land-use controversy in Alaska this century.

An executive order signed Monday by President Donald Trump reversed a swath of Biden administration moves in the state.