EnergyWire: The Coast Guard is cutting back its Arctic operations this summer to meet the across-the-board federal budget cuts imposed by Congress under sequestration.
Coast Guard officials are completing plans for a scaled-back Arctic monitoring and enforcement program, which might be based out of Kotzebue along Alaska's northwestern coast.
Because of budget cuts, the Arctic Shield 2013 program is likely to be conducted during July and September only. Last year's operations, which ran through the four-month...