ACAT News & Updates
Podcast available: Disproportionate Exposures to Toxics: A Conversation with Environmental Justice Reporter Brian Bienkowski
CHE-Alaska Teleconference: Recorded June 13, 2018
Listen to the podcast with Brian Bienkowski, reporter and editor at Environmental Health News and the Daily Climate about how vulnerable communities across America bear a disproportionate burden of contamination from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).
Podcast Available: Nursing the Earth Back to Health: Personal and Policy Strategies for Preventing Breast Cancer
CHE-Alaska Teleconference, Recorded Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Catherine Dodd Presentation Slides (PDF)
About the Call:
Catherine Dodd, PhD, RN discusses latest science on how environmental contaminants contribute to breast cancer risk and of healthy choices you can make to limit exposures. Find out what steps individuals, institutions, and communities can take to reduce the incidence of breast cancer.
Podcast Available -The Poison Papers: How an Activist Joined Forces with Investigative Journalists to Document the Hidden History of Herbicide Hazards
CHE-Alaska Teleconference, Recorded April 25, 2018
Community activist Carol van Strum and investigative journalists Peter von Stackelberg and Eric Francis Coppolino discuss how they worked together on “The Poison Papers,” a project to create a searchable online archive inspired by Van Strum’s extraordinary collection of more than 6,000 documents (totaling over 150,000 pages) about the chemical industry.