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CLOSED Action Alert: Tell the Division of Mining, Land, and Water to Deny Permit Reissuance Application from Graphite One
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Read MoreAction Alert: Your Voice is Needed to Protect Kigluait Lands – CLOSED
COMMENT PERIOD HAS CLOSED Your Voice is Needed to Protect Kigluait Lands, Waters, and Community Health: Submit Comments to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) by February 2, 2026 Graphite One, a Canadian mining corporation, is proposing a large open-pit mine to extract graphite in the Kigluaik Mountains north of Nome. The proposed mine,…
Read MoreAlaska Community Action on Toxics 2025 Highlights from Executive Director Pamela Miller
First, we extend our immense gratitude to all of you for supporting our work throughout the year, through volunteering, testifying, participating in our events in the community and webinars, and contributing financially. You inspired and encouraged our collective work and made everything possible even in these challenging times. Thank you! Creating opportunities for building community…
Read MoreAction Alert: Tell Congress to stop the chemical lobby from rolling back our health protections
Action Alert: Tell Congress to stop the chemical lobby from rolling back our health protections Every family has a right to be protected from toxic chemicals in the products we buy, water we drink, or the food we eat. The chemical lobby is working hard to undermine protections that ban harmful chemicals, require health…
Read MoreAction Alert: Protect Kigluait and Submit Public Comment
Action Alert: Protect Kigluait Mountains and Submit Public Comment Sacred Kigluiat and ACAT are here to protect the Kigluait Mountains from hard rock mining & revitalize ancestral connections to sacred sites. POA-2018-00210 Graphite Creek PN > Alaska District > Public Notices View –“Graphite One LLC, stated the purpose is mine graphite from mineral…
Read More2025 Stockholm Convention Bans More Toxic Chemicals, But With Concerning Exemptions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | May 13, 2025 Press Contacts: Pamela Miller [email protected], and Sarah Banapour [email protected] 2025 Stockholm Convention Bans More Toxic Chemicals, But With Concerning Exemptions ANCHORAGE, AK – From April 28 to May 9, Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) participated in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Pollutants Conference of the…
Read MoreRachel Carson Celebration 2025
Join us to celebrate Rachel Carson’s birthday while enjoying a meal of foraged greens, mocktails, poetry reading, live music, plant walks, and more! This is a FREE event. All are welcome! 🗓️ Wednesday, May 28 📍 Kincaid Chalet North Room (6998 Raspberry Rd) 🕓 5:00-8:30 pm 5:00 Plant walk6:00 Opening and Dinner featuring fresh…
Read MoreAction Alert: Support SB 161 to Ban Bottom Trawling
Action Alert: Support SB 161 to Ban Bottom Trawling Senate Bill 161 –“An Act relating to the use of certain trawl or dredge fishing gear in state water; and providing for an effective date.” In recent years, Alaska has seen a serious decline in certain fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and other sustainable oceanic resources…
Read MoreTCE contamination is a crisis: Congress must choose people over profits
TCE contamination is a crisis: Congress must choose people over profits By Pamela Miller In Alaska, we seek to protect our precious lands and waters, ensure the health of our fish, wildlife and communities. However, lurking beneath our feet and flowing through our waters is a toxic legacy — one that threatens our…
Read MoreMost Alaskans want state action on microplastics, forever chemicals
Most Alaskans want state action on microplastics, forever chemicals By Cory Johnson Microplastics and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), aren’t exactly great dinner table conversation topics but nowadays, since these harmful substances are showing up at the dinner table in our water and even in our food, perhaps it is time to start…
Read MoreTranscriptomic and developmental effects of persistent organic pollutants in sentinel fishes collected near an arctic formerly used defense site
Alaska contains over 600 formerly used defense (FUD) sites, many of which serve as point sources of pollution. These sites are often co-located with rural communities that depend upon traditional subsistence foods, especially lipid-rich animals that bioaccumulate and biomagnify persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Many POPs are carcinogenic and endocrine-disrupting compounds that are associated with adverse…
Read MoreIndigenous People of Sivuqaq, Alaska Speak Out Against U.S. Military Contamination and Violation of Human Rights
Indigenous People of Sivuqaq, Alaska Speak Out Against U.S. Military Contamination and Violation of Human Rights For Immediate Release: Date: March 12, 2025 Media Contact: Jayla Shannon, [email protected], (240) 375-2008 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT), with Native Village of Gambell and Native Village of Savoonga, today held…
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