🌍 Thank you to Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition and Native Movement for joining us for this important event in Fairbanks! #PFAS #ForeverChemicals #FairbanksEvents #CleanWater #EnvironmentalJustice #ACAT #AlaskaJustTransition #CitizensForCleanAir #FairbanksClimateActionCoalition

🌍 Please join us in Fairbanks for a free film screening and community discussion! #PFAS #ForeverChemicals #FairbanksEvents #CleanWater #EnvironmentalJustice #ACAT #AlaskaJustTransition #CitizensForCleanAir

Join us Thursday, October 23rd for next Plastic Free 907 meeting! #plasticfree

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In that spirit of Indigenous Peoples Day, we are proud to spotlight the work of 📢Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT)—a grassroots organization rooted in Indigenous leadership and environmental justice. @acat-akaction.bsky.social #IndigenousPeoplesDay cleanwater.org/IPD-ACAT-2025

🌿 Join us at the 42nd Annual Elders & Youth Conference! 🌿 ACAT is honored to host two sessions Oct 13 at the Dena’ina Center: 🩷 Breast Cancer Prevention | 1:30–3 PM 🌎 Microplastics, Mining & Mental Health | 3:30–5 PM Join us to protect our communities & future generations.

Our Policy Team will be at the Heavy Fuel Oil Town Hall in Juneau on Oct 8 🌊 📅 Oct 8 | 5 p.m. 📍 Juneau Arts & Culture Center + Zoom Panel, policy discussion, live music + community input. Don’t miss it!

We’re excited to share that Cleaning House by Lindsay Dahl features voices from ACAT’s own Executive Director, Pam Miller, and Viola (Vi) Waghiyi, Indigenous Yupik activist, mother and grandmother from Sivuqaq. 📖 Order your copy here: www.harpercollins.com/products/cle...

We’re excited to announce a new affiliate joining the movement against plastic pollution! Together, we’re moving closer to a #PlasticFreeFuture 🌍 💥 Don’t forget! It's time to sign up to learn how to move beyond plastics with Judith Enck this fall. Register for the class now: bit.ly/bennington-c...

Intern Spotlight! Please help us welcome Anna ✨ She is joining us this summer as an Environmental Justice and Community Health Researcher/Advocate through ACF's Ted Smith Conservation Internship Program.

UPCOMING #Webinar!🖥️ ACAT & @che-healthenv.bsky.social will present "Carbon Capture and Storage: A Dangerous Distraction." Speakers will explain how CCS is a false climate solution that prolongs our reliance on fossil fuels and enables industry to continue polluting. akaction.org/webinars/202...

🔎 Misinformation and disinformation have become increasingly common, especially with social media being one of the primary news sources for many people. According to a global survey, more than 85% of people are worried about the impact of online disinformation.

#Anchorage! Join us JULY 18 for our first meeting of #PlasticFree907, a coalition of Alaskans who want to make a difference in the fight against plastic pollution in our communities!💧🌿 Special thanks to Blue Market AK for pledging 1% of earnings to Plastic Free 907 🩵 @akjusttransition.bsky.social

We're hiring! ✨ ACAT is currently hiring for two positions: ➤ Media and Communications Coordinator ➤ Protecting Future Generations Coordinator Positions open until filled. Learn more about each position and apply! www.akaction.org/get-involved...

UPCOMING Webinar 🖥️ Join ACAT & @che-healthenv.bsky.social on June 17! In this webinar, speakers from orgs leading breast cancer prevention work will share how they incorporate community input, and how this fosters more effective and equitable prevention strategies. www.akaction.org/webinars/2025-6

This week, @govdunleavy.bsky.social will be holding his Sustainable Energy Conference, which highlights the voices of major fossil fuel advocates while largely excluding the voices of Alaskans most impacted by the climate and energy crises. www.adn.com/opinions/202...

Want to learn how we can hold health harming corporations to account? Join us 12pm PT, Thursday May 29 to hear about the work of the @UCSF Center to End Corporate Harm

TOMORROW - Learn about UCSF’s Center to End Corporate Harm, how to use the Industry Documents Library, and how researchers tap these internal documents to understand how corporations influence science & policy. @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social RSVP here: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

Please help us welcome Courtney! Courtney Moore is the Plastics & Petrochemicals Coordinator at ACAT, where she brings passion and purpose to environmental justice work. Born and raised in AK, she first got involved in advocacy during the No Pebble Mine campaign in 2022 and hasn’t looked back since.

ACAT and Bear Tooth Theatrepub are hosting a special fundraiser screening of the film “Plastic People”! 🎬This award-winning feature documentary investigates our plastic addiction and the growing threat of microplastics to human health. 🎟️Tickets beartooththeatre.filmbot.com/movies/plast...

Putting the SUS in SUStainable Energy 👀! The Trump administration is in town for Gov. Dunleavy's conference on "sustainable energy". While they're inside, join with Alaskans outside the Dena'ina Center to tell them our lands are not for sale! #Dunleavy #Sus #NotYourResourceWarehouse #DumpTrump

ACAT's Samarys Seguinot Medina explores connections between Mother Earth and Indigenous communities around the world. She highlights plastic pollution as a threat to human health and the environment, especially in the Arctic. EN www.soldemedianochenews.org/mother-earth-will-survive-and-humans.html

Action Alert 📢 In recent years, Alaska has seen a serious decline in certain fish, shellfish, and marine mammals that many communities rely on. The trawling fleet’s bycatch of non-target species is one of the worst causes of this decline and the devastation of ocean floor habitat.

ANCHORAGE - Join us to celebrate Rachel Carson’s birthday while enjoying a meal of foraged greens, mocktails, poetry reading, live music, plant walks, and more! 🌿 🪻This is a FREE event! All are welcome. Register here: www.akaction.org/news/rachel-carson-celebration-2025

This week is Women’s Health Week! Check out trusted resources from @che-healthenv.bsky.social, ACAT, and Zero Breast Cancer on reproductive health, environmental exposures, health & well-being, and more. 🔗 www.akaction.org/protectingourmamaqs www.healthandenvironment.org www.zerobreastcancer.org

The Stockholm Convention added the toxic plastic chemical group MCCPs to its list of globally banned substances, but also reopened a previous ban for the first time, with potentially dire consequences for our health and environment. Read more: ipen.org/news/nations...

In this BRS COPs side event, ACAT's Pam Miller and Jasmine Jemewouk discuss how persistent organic pollutants (POPs) cause disproportionate harm to human health and the environment in the Arctic, contaminating waters, ecosystems, and the traditional foods of Indigenous Peoples.

#IndigenousRights: On March 12, 2025, the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics & Human Rights will discuss the impact of military activities on Indigenous peoples at a press conference convened by Sivuqaq Tribal leaders and the Alaska Community Action on Toxics at @npcinstitute.bsky.social.

Next week on May 15, @che-healthenv.bsky.social and ACAT will present “The Toxic Legacy of U.S. Military Sites: Health & Human Rights for the People of Sivuqaq.” ➡️ Register for this webinar now! www.akaction.org/webinars/202...

ACAT's Pam Miller wrote about the toxic legacy of trichloroethylene (TCE), a known carcinogen that is contaminating drinking water across Alaska, in an opinion piece in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.📰 www.akaction.org/news/blog/tce-contamination-is-a-crisis-congress-must-choose-people-over-profits

Exposure to diesel pollution is dangerous to our health and clean air policies are on the chopping block. This #WorldAsthmaDay, tell your state leaders to stand strong and defend clean cars and trucks. Learn more from ANHE below or follow the link in our bio: zurl.co/i446z

The Stockholm COP added toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos and PFAS group LC-PFCAs to its global ban list. IPEN welcomed the move but warned that broad exemptions for chlorpyrifos leave children at risk. Science – not profit – must guide chemical safety. Read more here: ipen.org/news/toxic-p...

Read the official #BRSCOPs interventions compiled by IPEN from Dr. Samarys Seguinot Medina, Tadesse Amera, Gilbert Kuepouo, Dr. Leslie Adogame, Pamela Miller, Sonia Buftheim, Yuyun Ismawati, Gohar Khojayan, Piyush Mohapatra, Aileen Lucero, Ram Charitra Sah, and Mari Carcamo: ipen.org/site/interve...

On behalf of ACAT and @toxicsfree.bsky.social, Environmental Health Director Samarys Seguinot Medina gives her intervention on the first day in Geneva for the 2025 Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs). 🙌

We are grateful to the Latine folks who for generations have been fighting to preserve our planet and continue to move us toward a climate-safe future.

"By regulating hazardous chemicals and waste, the BRS Conventions help reduce our exposure to toxic substances." Thank you for joining this #BRSCOPs2025 side event on #humanrights and @brsconventions.bsky.social! Video, summary and documents ▶️ tiny.cc/GEN28Apr25

Join us at the BRS COP Side Event, “Spotlighting Approaches for a More Protective Stockholm Convention, With a Focus on Increasing Visibility of the Threats to Children’s Health" 📅 Date: 01 May 🕙 Time: 18:15–19:45 CEST 📍 Location: Geneva & online www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/spotl...

IPEN and @acat-akaction.bsky.social strongly oppose a proposal to reopen the 2023 decision to ban UV-328 – a toxic chemical already phased out in many regions – and warn that granting new exemptions would set a dangerous precedent. Read our joint submission here: ipen.org/documents/re...

ACAT environmental justice advocate Cory Johnson writes about the need for state-level action on microplastics and PFAS in an op-ed published in @adn.com. 📰Read it here! www.adn.com/opinions/2025/04/13/opinion-most-alaskans-want-state-action-on-microplastics-forever-chemicals

Last summer, Chloé joined us as an Environmental Health Law & Justice Intern from UC Berkeley’s Environmental Law Clinic, researching and analyzing environmental justice and human rights issues pertaining to contaminated sites on Sivuqaq.

It's not too late to register for this webinar with @che-healthenv.bsky.social! 🖥️ See you tomorrow ➡️ www.akaction.org/webinars/2025-4

Anchorage! Join us TOMORROW evening for the final film in our Mother Earth Justice Film Series, “UNEARTH”, hosted in collaboration with @akjusttransition.bsky.social, @nativemvmnt.bsky.social, @salmonstateak.bsky.social & the Alaska Center. 🌎🌿 🎟️Register: www.akaction.org/news/mother-earth-justice

🖥️ Next week on April 24, ACAT and @che-healthenv.bsky.social will host a webinar with Dr. Mark Miller and Dr. Catherine Metayer exploring challenges & opportunities in childhood cancer prevention. @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social ➡️Register here: www.akaction.org/webinars/2025-4

ACAT is holding a FREE film series to uplift inspiring stories about environmental justice and provide a community space for dialogue that will lead to action. 🎬The final film in the series is the award-winning documentary "UNEARTH". 🌎🌿 🎟️Register here! www.akaction.org/news/mother-earth-justice

A Warm Welcome for Anne Gore! We’re excited to announce that Anne has joined ACAT’s team as our Associate Director of Donor Relations. She shares ACAT’s vision of a toxic-free, climate-stable future for Alaska and the world and is looking forward to getting to know ACAT’s donors.

“The Yup’ik people of St. Lawrence Island have PCB levels in their blood 4.5 to 9 times higher than the average in Lower 48 communities, according to the Alaska Community Action on Toxics.” Both Vi and Sandra are my cousins from St. Lawrence Island. alaskapublic.org/news/politic...

The Arctic is warming 4x faster than the rest of the world, and Indigenous Arctic People face the brunt of the plastic and petrochemical industry’s toxic operations. Read “The Arctic’s Plastic Crisis” report from IPEN and Alaska Community Action on Toxics. stoppoisonplastic.org/blog/portfol...

Iditarod fans stand with Norton Sound communities against harmful mining! www.nativemovement.org/nortonsound #iditarod #elim #nome #alaska #tribalsovereignty #alaskanative #uranium #graphite #graphiteone #pantherminerals #elimstudentsagainsturanium #nortonsound #subsistence

Hi #INC4 from 1984 when Alaska Fish and Game ran this story — “a plague of plastics” — also don’t miss this impt op-ed via @adndotcom from Rosemary Ahtuangaruak & Vi Pangunnaaq Waghiyi @ak_action #plasticstreaty...

ACAT's Water Quality and Community Health Protection Coordinator Jasmine Jemewouk is featured in this article. “What they’re not realizing is that the community bears the burden. Whatever they leave behind, whatever is contaminated in the process," says Jemewouk. "We’re not being consulted at all.”