In Alaska Legislature’s last days, a key question: How much to subsidize the gas pipeline?

By: James Brooks

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: May 6, 2026

Words: 1,098

Last Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is urging state lawmakers to act on his proposal to cut state taxes by $7.2 billion over the next 36 years to subsidize construction of the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline.

Failing to act, he said, could keep the pipeline from being built at all.

“This bill is too important. This concept is too important,” Dunleavy said. “This is not setting up a tax for the lemonade stand down here …

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