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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…

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…

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…