Gov. Mike Dunleavy joined Alaska’s News Source in the studio to discuss President Trump’s executive orders involving Alaska and what the future may hold for the state.
Dunleavy offered no opinion on Trump's decision to rename Denali as Mount McKinley, saying he wanted to speak with the president before sharing his own view.
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley.
Alaskans oppose reverting the name of Denali to Mount McKinley by more than a two-to-one margin, according to a survey of residents conducted several days before President Donald Trump announced he would make the change during his second inauguration speech Monday.
Executive orders will enable more drilling, mining and other resource development, reversing Biden-era environmental restrictions, governor says
Gov. Mike Dunleavy highlighted the impacts that some of President Donald Trump’s executive orders will have on Alaska.Dunleavy held a lengthy press conference Wednesday to discuss how many of Trump’s orders will have a ripple effect on Alaska’s economy,
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.
Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Wednesday that he would seek out a conversation with President Donald Trump about his decision to rename Denali, the tallest mountain in the U.S. Trump ordered on Monday to change the name of the peak to Mount McKinley.
Trump reversed protections for Alaskan wilderness, opening up the state to more oil and gas development and logging on federal lands.
President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders — including one to change the official name of North America's tallest mountain.