CHE Alaska Partnership
This partnership explores the emerging science of environmental health, justice, and education relevant to the state of Alaska and its people. Coordinated by Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT), CHE-AK works to inform health professionals, researchers, health-affected groups, government agents and other concerned citizens about environmental links to disease and disability. You can learn more about CHE Alaska’s partnership with ACAT on the ACAT website.
Calls from the CHE Alaska Partnership
November 12, 2024
Plastics Treaty Negotiations: Who has a seat at the table?
October 8, 2024
The Dangers of Deep-Sea Mining
September 18, 2024
Artificial Turf: Research on Plastic Pollution, PFAS, and Health Concerns
August 6, 2024
Protecting Children’s Developing Brains: Hazards of Plastics and Chemicals in Plastics
July 2, 2024
Mapping Environmental Injustice: Disparities in chemical exposures and neurodevelopmental outcomes
June 4, 2024
The Arctic's Plastics Crisis: Dangers to health and human rights of Indigenous peoples
April 10, 2024
Petrochemicals, Plastics & Health: Will global treaty offer pathway to progress?
March 28, 2024
Chemical Exposures and Children’s Mental Health
January 31, 2024
PFAS in Locally Caught Fish: Threats to health & environmental justice
November 29, 2023
Breast Cancer, Pinkwashing, and the Importance of Prevention
October 25, 2023
The Falsehood of “Critical and Strategic” Minerals
September 27, 2023
The Not-So-'Micro' Plastic Problem: A Conversation with Matt Simon
July 26, 2023
Putting People First: Safeguarding our Waters with Science and the Clean Water Act
June 7, 2023
Kids and Chemicals: PFAS Exposure and the Metabolism
April 26, 2023
False Climate Solutions: The Destructive Cycle of Nuclear Power in Alaska
March 29, 2023
Molecules and Mountains: Peaks, Public Health, and Science
March 23, 2023
Making the Invisible Visible: The PFAS Project Lab
February 28, 2023
PFAS in the Arctic: Identifying exposure sources & health effects in Nunavik, Canada
January 25, 2023
The Urgent Need to Address PFAS to Protect Drinking Water and Public Health
November 30, 2022
November 16, 2022
Protecting Brain Development in Children: Phthalates in Food & the Critical Need for Policy Reform
September 30, 2022
Community-Based Science to Protect Future Generations
June 29, 2022
Pollution and the Planet: Perspectives on being outside the ‘Safe Operating Space’
February 23, 2022
December 16, 2021
The Challenge of PFAS with Dr. Linda S. Birnbaum
November 11, 2021
August 18, 2021
July 28, 2021
June 30, 2021
May 26, 2021
Mercury, Fish, and Public Health Concerns: The Proposed Donlin Gold Mine
April 28, 2021
Protecting Your Child's Health with Dr. Ruth Etzel
March 31, 2021
February 24, 2021
Promoting Equity and Health: An Anticolonial Model from an Indigenous-Led Marine-Science Laboratory
January 27, 2021
Promoting a Culture of Health: The Role of Racial Equity in Healing our Nation's Health Disparities
December 2, 2020
Adverse effects of PFAS on Immune System Health: Complicating recovery during the COVID-19 Pandemic
October 28, 2020
September 30, 2020
July 29, 2020
June 24, 2020
April 29, 2020
More Harm than Good: New Science, Legal Actions, and Policy on Oil Spill Dispersants
March 25, 2020
February 26, 2020
January 29, 2020
December 4, 2019
October 16, 2019
August 28, 2019
From Breast Cancer Awareness to Action - Rethink the Pink
June 27, 2019
Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
May 22, 2019
April 24, 2019
March 27, 2019
Exploitation by Exposure: Human Rights and Toxic Exposures
February 6, 2019
January 9, 2019
December 19, 2018
PFAS Contamination of Drinking Water in Alaska and Beyond: An Update on Community and Policy Actions
November 28, 2018
October 10, 2018
September 12, 2018
Proposed Donlin Mine: Contamination Concerns and Threats to Clean Air, Clean Water, and Clean Food
August 1, 2018
June 13, 2018
May 2, 2018
Nursing the Earth Back to Health: Personal and Policy Strategies for Preventing Breast Cancer
April 25, 2018
March 28, 2018
Protecting Future Generations: The Need to Unravel Historical Intergenerational Trauma
February 28, 2018
January 31, 2018
State of the Science: Children’s Environmental Health in Alaska and the Circumpolar North
December 13, 2017
November 8, 2017
October 11, 2017
Science Informing Healthy Choices: Working Toward a Toxic-Free Future for Children
September 13, 2017
How Trump's Proposed EPA Budget Cuts Threaten Clean Air, Clean Water, and Public Health
August 15, 2017
June 22, 2017
Environmental Contributors to Breast Cancer: The Underlying Science and Opportunities for Action
May 24, 2017
April 25, 2017
Links between Flame Retardants and Children's Social Behavior
March 29, 2017
February 22, 2017
Chemicals in Consumer Products: Science and Policy Actions to Eliminate Hazards
January 25, 2017
October 26, 2016
Endocrine Disruption at the Top of the World: State of the Science with a Message from Alaska
September 21, 2016
Will the New Federal Chemicals Law Adequately Protect Public Health?
August 24, 2016
Ensuring a Healthy Environment for All Children: the Need for Research, Policyand Urgent Action
July 20, 2016
June 15, 2016
May 11, 2016
From Appalachia to Alaska: Coal Development and the Environmental Justice Movement
April 27, 2016
The Ecology of Breast Cancer: Opportunities for Prevention
April 6, 2016
Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies and Environmental Health
March 9, 2016
February 24, 2016
January 13, 2016
Chemicals without Harm: A Conversation about Safer Alternatives with Ken Geiser
December 9, 2015
Why the US Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market: A Conversation with Journalist Elizabeth Grossman
November 10, 2015
October 19, 2015
September 2, 2015
What the Pink?! Protecting the Breasts You Love
August 5, 2015
The Longest Swim: A Journey Across the Pacific to Raise Awareness About Plastic Pollution
July 29, 2015
May 21, 2015
April 8, 2015
An Introduction to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: New Resource on Health Threats Posed by EDCs
March 4, 2015
Flame Retardants and Public Health: Fire Safety Without Harm
February 4, 2015
Only One Chance: How Contaminants in our Environment Impair Brain Development
December 10, 2014
November 19, 2014
October 15, 2014
Toxic Chemicals in Schools: Health Hazards to Children and What You Can Do
October 1, 2014
NIEHS and Environmental Disparities in Alaska
July 30, 2014
Aamjiwnaang: A Culture in Shock with Ron Plain
June 18, 2014
Fukushima: A View from the Ocean with Ken Buesseler
May 28, 2014
Breast Cancer Prevention: Beyond Pink Ribbons
April 30, 2014
Acid Rock Drainage and Water Quality: Potential Environmental Health Impacts in Alaska
March 25, 2014
March 12, 2014
February 5, 2014
December 4, 2013
November 13, 2013
Dirty Coal: From Mining to Mercury Contamination - Alaska to Asia and Back
October 16, 2013
Breast Cancer and the Environment: Prioritizing Prevention
September 18, 2013
August 14, 2013
July 24, 2013
Lessons from Libby, Montana: Mining, Asbestos, and Public Health
June 26, 2013
May 29, 2013
The Story of Camp Lejeune: Contaminated Drinking Water, Cancer Clusters and the Struggle for Justice
April 24, 2013
March 6, 2013
Environmental Exposures and Autism:The Interplay Between Genes, Environment and Health Status
February 13, 2013
Toxic Chemicals in Your Home: New Study Finds Hazardous Flame Retardants in Couches on the Rise
February 6, 2013
January 23, 2013
The Toll of Alaska's Coal: Health Impacts of Coal Export
November 28, 2012
Pollution from Pesticides: How Transnational Chemical Corporations Violate Basic Human Rights
October 24, 2012
The Unnatural History of Breasts: Industrial Chemicals, Breast Cancer, and Early Puberty
September 26, 2012
Preventing Harm to Children: The Healthy Schools Movement
September 5, 2012
Protecting Public Health in Alaska: The Opportunity of the Safe Chemicals Act
July 25, 2012
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - New Directions in Science and Policy
June 28, 2012
Hidden Chemicals in Consumer Products: What's Not on the Label
May 30, 2012
April 25, 2012
March 26, 2012
Upholding Our Human Right to Live in a Healthy Environment
March 21, 2012
February 15, 2012
Coal's Assault on Human Health
January 11, 2012
December 14, 2011
The Role of Environmental Chemicals in the Development of Diabetes and Obesity
November 30, 2011
Breathe Free: Protecting Community Health from Toxic Coal Dust
October 26, 2011
September 29, 2011
August 1, 2011
Coal Mining in Alaska: Hazards to Human Health and the Environment
June 1, 2011
State of the Evidence: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment
May 25, 2011
April 6, 2011
Protecting the Health of Alaskans and Our Future Generations through State Chemicals Policy Reform
March 16, 2011
Green Chemistry and Safer Alternatives to Toxic Flame Retardants
January 26, 2011
Health Hazards of Toxic Flame Retardants in Everyday Products
December 15, 2010
Bisphenol A (BPA): What It Does, Where It's Found, and What We Can Do to Reduce Our Exposure
November 24, 2010
Climate Change and Contaminants: Implications and Potential Impacts
October 27, 2010
International Actions to Eliminate the World's Most Dangerous Chemicals
September 15, 2010
August 11, 2010
The Hidden Hazards of Coal Development in Alaska: Public Health and Coal Combustion Waste
June 30, 2010
The New Science of How Herbicides Affect Health and the Environment
May 25, 2010
Breast Cancer: Environmental Links and Opportunities for Prevention
May 12, 2010
Coal Development in Alaska: Threats to Human Health
March 30, 2010
Environmental Contaminants and Reproductive Health: Reasons for Concern
February 24, 2010
Mind, Disrupted: A Conversation with Project Leaders and Participants
September 30, 2009
Creating Healthy Schools in Alaska: What You Need to Know to Protect Children from Toxic Exposures
