Good Idea! AK Governor Considers Reviving Climate Policy Panel, Dead Since 2009

Just in time!



The administration of Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is examining whether to revive a dormant group of officials dedicated to developing the state’s climate change policy, a top administration official said Monday.

The group -- officially known as the “Climate Change Sub-Cabinet” -- was created by former Gov. Sarah Palin but stopped meeting when her lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell, succeeded her in mid-2009. News that the panel had gone dormant was greeted with disappointment and derision by environmental advocates at the time.

Members of Walker’s transition committee were “very interested” in resurrecting the group, Craig Fleener, Walker’s Cabinet-level Arctic policy adviser, said in an interview Monday. In March, a group of high school students urged Walker to create a task force on climate change to replace the sub-cabinet.

Fleener, in a presentation at the Department of State’s GLACIER conference on the Arctic in Anchorage on Monday, mentioned the work of the sub-cabinet. In an interview afterward, he said the Walker administration is “looking at whether or not we want to reinvigorate it.”

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