{"id":23161,"date":"2015-11-05T23:17:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T07:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/state-king-cove-others-appeal-decision-in-road-case\/"},"modified":"2015-11-05T23:17:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T07:17:47","slug":"state-king-cove-others-appeal-decision-in-road-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-king-cove-others-appeal-decision-in-road-case\/","title":{"rendered":"State, King Cove, others appeal decision in road case"},"content":{"rendered":"

JUNEAU \u2014<\/strong> The state is appealing the dismissal of a case challenging the U.S. Interior Department\u2019s refusal to allow for a road through a wildlife refuge to ease medical evacuations.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s appealing with the city of King Cove, Alaska Native interests and others.<\/p>\n

According to court records, Congress, in 2009, passed legislation authorizing a land swap for a road between King Cove and Cold Bay that primarily would be used for health and safety purposes. The Interior secretary was required to comply with a federal environmental law as part of the determination on whether to carry out the exchange.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland found no violation of the environmental law and said the 2009 legislation didn\u2019t include a public health and safety component in the environmental review process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JUNEAU \u2014 The state is appealing the dismissal of a case challenging the U.S. Interior Department\u2019s refusal to allow for a road through a wildlife refuge to ease medical evacuations. The state\u2019s appealing with the city of King Cove, Alaska Native interests and others. According to court records, Congress, in 2009, passed legislation authorizing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23161"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}