Archive for December 2015
What about Alaskan Peas?
Trying to eat local in Alaska? What do you do about protein? How do you eat in the winter? If you are trying to eat in line with your conscience, are you trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from food production and transport? Are you trying to preserve and improve the health of soil?…
Read MoreWhy the US Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market: A Conversation with Journalist Elizabeth Grossman
On this call join award-winning journalist Elizabeth Grossman for a discussion of her 6-month investigation with journalist Valerie Brown into why the United States leaves deadly chemicals on the market. Their investigation found that the revolving door between government and private industry has led the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rely on easily manipulated research…
Read MoreOperators of Seward Coal Terminal Agree to Follow the Law, Will Secure Permit and Improve Facility
Cleanup move comes after decades of spilling coal into Resurrection Bay SEWARD, Alaska– Aurora Energy Services, LLC (Aurora) and the Alaska Railroad Corporation reached a settlement agreement today with Alaska Community Action on Toxics and the Alaska Chapter of the Sierra Club. The agreement resolves a nearly six-year-old lawsuit brought under the Clean Water Act…
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