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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Most Alaskans want state action on microplastics, forever chemicals By Cory Johnson   A blue rectangular piece of microplastic sits on the finger of a researcher with the University of Washington-Tacoma environmental science program, after it was found in debris collected from the Thea Foss Waterway, in Tacoma, Wash. (AP ...