WASHINGTON -- Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has become the face of an all-out assault on the Environmental Protection Agency, but she won't be joined in that fight by her Democratic counterpart from Alaska, Sen. Mark Begich.
Two Anchorage senators used the confirmation hearing for Attorney General Dan Sullivan Wednesday to rebuke him over the state's repeated intervention in a Native adoption case in the Bush, but joined with the rest of the Judiciary Committee to move Sullivan's nomination to the full Legislature.
Legislative opponents of Trans-Canada Corp.'s state-backed natural gas pipeline project stripped much of the money Gov. Sean Parnell has sought for the state's role in pushing it forward from the budget adopted by the House Finance Committee on Tuesday.
Juneau residents who want to protect a small patch of land in Tracy Arm did not convince lawmakers Tuesday the parcel is worth amending a controversial lands bill that is making its way through the Legislature.
