Archive for June 2018
Alaska Fire Chiefs Association Opposed to Ineffective, Toxic Flame Retardants
Firefighters join movement to ban organohalogen flame retardants from household goods to protect health of firefighters and children ACAT is working hard to make Alaska safer by eliminating organohalogen flame retardants from kids’ toys, furniture, upholstery and more. For one thing, they provide no fire safety benefit so there’s no reason for them to be…
Read MoreDisproportionate Exposures to Toxics: A Conversation with Environmental Justice Reporter Brian Bienkowski
Brian Bienkowski, reporter and editor at Environmental Health News and the Daily Climate discusses how vulnerable communities across America bear a disproportionate burden of contamination from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). From Michigan to Alaska, Bienkowski has investigated environmental justice stories in which industrial and military pollution threatens the health and traditions of Native peoples. He has…
Read MoreExposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and associations with serum thyroid hormones in a remote population of Alaska Natives
Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are known to accumulate in traditional food animals of the Arctic, and arctic indigenous peoples may be exposed via consumption of subsistence-harvested animals. PFASs are suspected of disrupting thyroid hormone homeostasis in humans. The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between serum PFASs and thyroid function in a remote…
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