Outstanding Waters

Outstanding Waters

Alaska’s Antidegradation Policy (or lack thereof…)STATE REFUSES TO FULFILL CLEAN WATER ACT MANDATEA twenty-year battle to force Alaska to follow a fundamental requirement of the Clean Water Act may finally be at hand…The federal Clean Water Act...
The Mixing Zone

The Mixing Zone

THE “DILUTION SOLUTION TO POLLUTION” REMAINS THE GREATEST CHALLENGE TO THE GOALS OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT The Clean Water Act (CWA, the Act) was passed in 1972 to restructure the nation’s oversight regarding the release of pollutants into public...
Alaskans Gear Up to Fight B.C. Company’s Mine Plans

Alaskans Gear Up to Fight B.C. Company’s Mine Plans

By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun, 1/18/2017http://www.vancouversun.com/business/stephen+hume+alaskans+gear+fight+company+mine+plans/12730102/story.html Mt. Washington Copper, which operated in Vancouver Island’s Comox Valley from 1964 to 1967, was abandoned along with...
Mining and Salmon Don’t Mix

Mining and Salmon Don’t Mix

By Gershon Cohen PhD, ACWA Project DirectorPublished in the Earth Island Journal, Summer Edition, 2016http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/mining_and_salmon_dont_mix/When folks share their “animal migration bucket list,” a few world-class events...

Recent articles on ACWA and our issues…

 National Audubon Magazine December 20th, 2017 Proposed Mine Threatens the World’s Largest Concentration of Bald Eagleshttp://www.audubon.org/news/proposed-mine-threatens-worlds-largest-concentration-bald-eaglesCBC August 20th, 2016Vancouver-based mining...