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ACTION ALERT: Please take action to ban PFAS in Alaska! Send messages to the Senate Finance Committee and Testify in Support of SB 67 on Wednesday April 12 at 1pm!
This is big news, as it is the last hurdle before the bill moves to the Senate floor. It’s important for Alaskans to show their support by testifying and sending letters of support for SB 67. We have a good chance of passing the bill during this legislative session! Now it’s time for you…
The Destructive Cycle of Nuclear Power in Alaska, From Uranium Mining to Power Generation and Weapons Testing, and Nuclear Waste
Alaska has a history of nuclear experimentation, including weapons testing on Amchitka Island in the Aleutian Archipelago, unrealized plans to create a deepwater port near Point Hope (the subject of the book Firecracker Boys by Dan O’Neill), a nuclear reactor operating at the Fort Greely military base near Delta Junction from 1962-1972, and uranium mining…
One Drop Closer to Preventing Harm From PFAS: SB 67 on the move!
Good news for Alaska drinking water: Senate Bill 67 to phase out PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) from firefighting foams has been passed by the Senate Resources Committee and is now headed to Senate Finance. ACAT, community members from contaminated areas, and leaders from rural Alaska are sending concise, personalized messages to the Senate Finance…
Peaks and Public Health: The Green Science Policy Institute with Dr. Arlene Blum
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…
Making the Invisible Visible: The PFAS Project Lab with Alissa Cordner
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…