$11.8 Million in Brownfield Grants to Clean Contaminated Alaska Sites
Four Alaska Native regional and village corporations are receiving federal brownfields funding to address contaminated lands for the first time.
Four Alaska Native regional and village corporations are receiving federal brownfields funding to address contaminated lands for the first time.
An engineer in Juneau is moving to NORTECH’s Anchorage office. By relocating, Haley Michael enables the environmental engineering firm to expand its services.
The US Environmental Protection Agency announced a $20 million program to assist Alaska tribal entities in addressing legacy contamination on lands conveyed through the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
PKS Consulting received the first prize in Mid Valley Recycling’s Recycling Contest. The cash award for $5,000 will be used to make picnic tables out of plastic lumber.
Invoking a rarely used authority under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act, EPA is prohibiting the use of streams in the Bristol Bay watershed for mine waste disposal sites.
Jason Gresehover recently joined the staff at Nortech as an environmental engineer.
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a national environmental nonprofit, named Ivy Spohnholz as its next Alaska State Director.
A first-of-its-kind mobile plastics processing system is being deployed in Alaska, designed to take plastic from beaches and recycle it into lumber.
Four more businesses have joined the Adventure Green Alaska program for sustainable tourism, which is managed by the Alaska Travel Industry Association.
Federal money for the Native Village of Eyak will pay for construction of a road to a spill response facility at Shepard Point, north of Cordova.