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ACAT Challenges Alaska Railroad Herbicide
Spraying Permit
On June 2, 2010 ACAT joined the Native
Village of Eklutna and six other community groups in
challenging a permit that would allow the Alaska Railroad to
spray toxic herbicides along the railbelt from Seward to
Indian for the first time in 26 years. Citizens, public
officials, Borough governments and municipalities have
consistently opposed the railroad's proposed use of
herbicides. Despite serious threats to water quality, fish,
wildlife and human health, the Alaska Department of
Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued a pesticide permit
on April 30. Documents and photographic evidence
conclusively demonstrate the Alaska Railroad failed to
consider effects on numerous water bodies within zones they
plan to spray.
Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 News Release
4-15-2010
Landmark Legislation Introduced to Protect the Health of
American Families: Federal Safe Chemicals Act Especially
Important to Protect Alaskans
The Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 was introduced into Congress
on April 15, 2010. The Safe Chemicals Act is the first draft
of a bill that will overhaul the 34 year-old Toxic
Substances Control Act (TSCA) which governs toxic chemicals
in the United States. Alaska Community Action on Toxics
strongly supports the federal legislation, but cautions that
the bill needs further improvement in three critical areas.
 NEW
REPORT! Mind, Disrupted: How Chemicals May Change How We
Think and Who We Are
A new report by ACAT,
Commonweal, and the Learning and Developmental Disabilities
Initiative details the first-ever biomonitoring project
identifying toxic chemical pollution in people from the
learning and developmental disability community. Mind,
Disrupted examines 61 toxic chemicals present in the bodies
of study participants in the context of rising rates of
autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and other
learning and developmental disabilities. You can download
the
full report (2MB)
or a
4-page summary (1MB).
ACAT developed the following
fact sheets for the Mind, Disrupted report. These chemicals
are known or suspected to adversely affect human health, and
specifically neurodevelopment:
Hazardous Chemicals in Health Care: A
Snapshot of Chemicals in Doctors and Nurses
This report
details the first investigation ever of chemicals found in
the bodies of health care professionals. The study found
that all 20 study participants had toxic chemicals
associated with health care in their bodies. Each
participant had at least 24 individual chemicals present,
four of which are on the recently released Environmental
Protection Agency list of priority chemicals for regulation.
These chemicals are all associated with chronic illness and
physical disorders.
Indigenous Peoples and NGO supporters send a
reminder to the Parties to the Stockholm Convention COP 4 in
Geneva Switzerland on May 4th
NEW REPORT! Persistent Organic Pollutants
in the Arctic: A Report for the Delegates of the 4th
Conference of the Parties Stockholm Convention on
Persistent Organic Pollutants (PDF 687K)
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