So far, contamination has been found on 56 farms and 23% of the more than 1,500 groundwater samples that have been collected – both from agricultural sites and residential wells – have tested above Maine’s interim standard of 20 parts per trillion for the cumulative total of six types of PFAS.
This year ended with a big bang for many Indigenous leaders, communities and activists around the world. During the U.N. biodiversity conference, known as COP15, Indigenous traditional lands and rights were successfully incorporated into the final global agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss after more than two years of campaigning. Indigenous leaders fear being […]
The Gwich’in people of northern Alaska were disappointed when the Democratic-held U.S. Congress did not include a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) – an area the Trump administration officially opened to future drilling in 2017. However, for decades now, the Gwich’in Steering Committee has taken the […]