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Lois Epstein

Lois Epstein

Lois Epstein, P.E., is a licensed engineer who owns an environmental consulting small business in Anchorage. She has lived in Anchorage for over 20 years and currently is the board chair of the Alaska Public Interest Research Group.

COMMENTARY
Container ships are lined up at the Port of Alaska in Anchorage on Oct. 11, 2020. The port and Sandia National Laboratories are teaming up to evaluate Cook Inlet renewable energy resources to potentially fuel a planned microgrid. (Photo by Erik Hill/Port of Alaska)

Alaska’s economic development strategy needs more robust input

By: - August 22, 2022

How can the State of Alaska develop an innovative, just and achievable strategy for our collective economic future? Those writing the state’s economic development strategy need to incorporate input from people and organizations not wedded to business as usual such as the Alaska oil and gas industry, which still seems in denial about climate change. […]