‘Alaskans will vigorously defend their existing cultural and economic interests’ ANCHORAGE – Twenty members of the Alaska Legislature on Monday signed a letter correcting inaccurate statements made by the governor about the ease with which the State of Alaska might permit the proposed Pebble Mine. Gov. Mike Dunleavy in a July 30 letter to the […]
Significant amounts of toxic metals, including lead, leak from some e-cigarette heating coils and are present in the aerosols inhaled by users, according to a study from scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In the study, published online in Environmental Health Perspectives on February 21, the scientists examined e-cigarette devices owned by a sample of […]
[wds id=”6″] Kodiak Island Village Cleanup Kodiak, AK, April 10, 2017: From June 2015 to December 2016, the village communities in the Kodiak Island Archipelago participated in a massive clean-up effort resulting in 2,625.5 tons of scrap metal. 27,939 pounds of lead acid batteries, 1,715 pounds of electronic waste, twenty-nine 55-gallon drums of contaminated fuel […]
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after 60 Minutes reported on the United States’ dependence on China for rare earth elements – and the consequences that could hold for our nation. “I’m grateful that 60 Minutes investigated the depth of America’s dependence on China for rare earths, and has now shared […]