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CHE-Alaska presents, Peaks and Public Health: The Green Science Policy Institute with Dr. Arlene Blum Please join us for a conversation with Arlene Blum PhD, a biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer and research associate in chemistry at University of California at Berkeley and founder/director of the Green Science Policy Institute (GSPI). The Green Science Policy…

Alissa Cordner is an associate professor of sociology and an expert on PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Corder is Co-Director of The PFAS Project Lab, an interdisciplinary group of faculty, post-doctoral scholars, and students affiliated with the Social Science Environmental Health Research institute at Northeastern University in Boston. The Lab studies social, scientific, and political…

Join CHE-Alaska for a webinar on PFAS contamination of subsistence foods in Arctic Indigenous populations. Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs), a subset of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), are a group of chemicals used in industrial production, firefighting foams and food packaging materials. These chemicals are used for commercial and residential applications and repel water and oil. Because…

  Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) conducted independent water quality testing in 2022 that showed PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) contamination in Anchorage lakes as well as in Ship Creek. These results show contamination in lakes used for swimming and fishing. The results also show contamination in Ship Creek downstream from Joint Base Elmendorf…

In October of 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed an endangerment finding on leaded aviation gasoline, a critical step to regulate lead pollution from piston-engine aircrafts – the largest source of lead emissions in the country. The Agency said it will propose an endangerment finding on leaded aviation gas by the end of 2022…