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Who We Are
Who We Are
- ACAT Board Members
- ACAT Staff Members
Pesticides Initiative
- Alaskans for Healthy Kids (the group)
  - What is Alaskans for Healthy Kids?
  - What are pesticides?
- Alaska Children’s Health Protection Act (the ballot initiative)
- News Release: Alaska Children's Health Initiative Filed on July 1!
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  - News Release: Alaska Children's Health Initiative Filed on July 1! (PDF 131K)
- Alaska Children's Health Protection Act language
  - Alaska Children's Health Protection Act language (PDF 77K)
- Urgent Action--Protect Community Health and Right-to-Know about Pesticides in Anchorage--Anchorage Assembly hearing on May 3! (HTM)
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  - Urgent Action--Protect Community Health and Right-to-Know about Pesticides in Anchorage--Anchorage Assembly hearing on May 3! (PDF 128K)
- Speak Up for the Public's Right to Know about Pesticides! Protect Public Health and the Environment! Support HB 19--Public Right to Know About Pesticides (PDF 95.7K)
- Pesticide-Free Solutions
- The Problem With Pesticedes
  - Klukwan Inc. Applies for Permit to Spray Long Island
  - Pesticide Right to Know in Alaska (PDF)
- Aerial Spraying In Alaska's Forests
- Local And School Ordinances
- Federal and International Actions
- Pesticide Fact Sheets
- Rachel Carson Celebration
  - Rachel Carson Celebration Events for 2004 (PDF)
- State Legislature
- Statement in Support of Lindane Elimination Signed by Groups Throughout North America (PDF 91K)
- Physicians in Support of Lindane Elimination (PDF 154K)
- Fact Sheet of Agricultural Alternatives to Lindane (PDF 112K)
Collaborative on Health and the Environment
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- What is CHE?
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- What is CHE -Alaska?
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- Alaska Concerns
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- Alaska Current & Planned Activities
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- Contact Information
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- CHE Partnership Calls
- Publications, Brochures, & Bulletins
Upcoming Events
- Film Screening—The Beloved Community: May 9, 2007
- Lunchtime Brownbag Presentation: May 11, 2007
- Copy of Lunchtime Brownbag Presentation: May 11, 2007
Military Toxics and Health
- Testimony of Viola Waghiyi for the National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, April 2004
- Overview of Military Sites in Alaska--Impacts to Environment and Communities
- Fact Sheet about the Nuclear Reactor at Fort Greely, Alaska
Pesticide Right To Know
- pesticides_reform_files/filelist.xml
- Say NO! to Alaska Railroad's Herbicide Spraying (PDF 169K)
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment--Alaska Diabetes: A Complex Disease and the Contributing Factors of Environmental Exposures--Wednesday May 10 at 9 AM Alaska time Introductory paper by Dr. David Carpenter
  - Paper on Diabetes and Environmental Exposures DC 2006 (PDF 42K)
  - Diabetes Paper Introduction 4-20-06 (PDF 29K)
- North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on Lindane: Letter from 61 Organizations from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada Urge Elimination of Lindane (November 2005) (PDF 168K)
- Letter from 23 organizations from 15 countries calls for lindane ban (November 2005) (PDF 125K)
- Action Alert, Klukwan Inc. Again Applies for Permit to Spray Long Island
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  - Action Alert, Klukwan Inc. Again Applies for Permit to Spray Long Island (PDF 159K)
- Educational Presentation by Cordova students: Long-term injury from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound
  - Educational Presentation by Cordova students: Long-term injury from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound (Power Point 271MB)
Northern Contaminants & Health
- NEW REPORT! Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Arctic: A Report for the Delegates of the 4th Conference of the Parties Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (PDF 687K)
- Letter from the NIEHS Conference
  - PDFs/EJ-CBPR Letter.doc
- Keep the Promise! Eliminate POPs COP1 Uruguay, 2005
- Risk Management and Decision-making for Health and the Environment" a presentation for the Tribal Leaders Summit in Sitka, April 20, 2005 (PowerPoint 67K)
- ACAT Initiative on Hospitals for a Healthy Environment
- Taking out the Trash (REPORT)
- PDFs/Media Release for Mercury Fair Warning Report_Final.pdf
- Contaminants in Alaska: Is America's Arctic At Risk? (PDF 2MB)
Water Quality
Worker Health
- SOUND TRUTHS, EXXON MYTHS: 15th Dark Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill March 24, 2004
Mining
- Red Dog and Subsistence: Analysis of Reports on Elevated Levels of Heavy Metals in Plants Used for Subsistence Near Red Dog Mine, Alaska (Released June 9, 2004)
Environmental Justice
- Principles of Environmental Justice
Publications, Fact Sheets, and Video
- 6 Tips for a Less Toxic Holiday
- Good Clean Fun: Green Cleaning Guide and Recipe Book (PDF 249K)
- Reports
- Newsletters
  - Newsletter Winter 2004 ACAT (PDF)
  - Newsletter Fall 1998
- Fact Sheets
Take Action
- Action Alert for Health and the Environment on Endosulfan
Press Room
- EPA CITES ALASKA, RED DOG MINE AS NATION'S BIGGEST POLLUTER: Mining Industry Tops List of Polluters, Red Dog is Biggest Source of Toxic Waste (PDF 102KB)
- MEDIA ADVISORY--New Report Points to Red Dog Mine as Source of Lead and Other Toxins in Subsistence Foods: Report Faults State for Falsely Assuring Villagers About Food Safety (PDF)
- MEDIA ADVISORY (April 29, 2009): Indigenous Arctic Delegation to Travel to Geneva to Urge Protection from Toxic Chemicals
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- For Immediate Release—News Advisory for November 8, 2007 Media Briefing (10 AM at the Loussac Library in Anchorage)
  - PDFs/Media Advisory Biomonitoring Project 11-2-07.pdf
- News Release--Alaska Citizens Compel State to Deny Alaska Railroad Corporation Herbicide Spraying Permit
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- News Flash! Plaintiff Groups Reach Critical Agreement with Department of Defense to Protect Lands and Waters at Fort Richardson, Alaska
- Toxics Treaty Becomes International Law Today (May 17, 2004) PDF
- State Enacts New Regulations Endorsing Aerial Pesticide Spraying - November 28, 2003 (PDF)
- Federal Court Orders Pesticide Restrictions for Salmon Recovery - Alaskans demand DEC follow ruling - January, 2004 (PDF)
- Salmon Hazard" Pesticide Restrcitions (PDF)
- North American Task Force on Lindane Meets in Anchorage MEXICO, CANADA AND U.S. ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR BAN - February 12, 2004 (PDF)
- Exciting Public Event: Seizing the Reins: Corporations versus Democracy. We the People and Building Sustainable Communities
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  - PDFs/Flyer_for_ACAT.pdf
- Marla Cone, Journalist and Author Presentation and Discussion
- Health, Human Rights, and Environmental Organizations Send Letter to Congress Supporting the Stockholm Convention (PDF 111K)
- News Release--Groups Support Ratification of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Pollutants (PDF 43K)
- EPA Announces Halt to Lindane Use in Agriculture--A Critical Decision to Protect Arctic Environment and Peoples (PDF 44K)
Mapping
- Summary of Toxic Waste Sites in Alaska Region 50
- Summary of Toxic Waste Sites in Alaska
- Summary Legend of Toxic Waste Sites in Alaska
- Chemical Weapons, Radioactive Waste, and Superfund Sites
- Legend for Chemical Waste Sites in Alaska
- Sites with Potential for Toxic Exposure to Humans
- Legend for Toxic Exposure Waste Sites in Alaska
- Sites with Potential for Toxic Exposure to Humans
- Legend for Priority Toxic Waste Sites in Alaska
- Military and Other Federal Toxic Waste Sites
- Legend for Military Toxic Waste Sites in Alaska
- ACAT Board Members
- Map of Formerly Used Defense Sites in the Norton Sound Region (PDF 465K)
- Glossary
- Critical Data Targets
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Support Alaska Community Action on Toxics
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Important Updates

6 Tips for a Less Toxic Holiday

NEW! Triclosan Fact Sheet (PDF 58K)

Good Clean Fun: Green Cleaning Guide and Recipe Book (PDF 249K)

NEW REPORT! Lindane: Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Alternatives—April 2009 For the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) (PDF 505K)

NEW REPORT! Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Arctic: A Report for the Delegates of the 4th Conference of the Parties Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (PDF 687K)