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The difficulties of cleaning up leftover military waste|Alaska Insight


The difficulties of cleaning up leftover military waste|Alaska Insight


The armed force has actually run all throughout Alaska given that World War II, leaving a tradition of decades-old contamination. On this Alaska Insight, host Lori Townsend is signed up with by Vi Waghiyi, ecological health and justice organizer for Alaska Community Action on Toxics, as well as Lisa Griswold, who collaborates remediation of polluted Native corporation lands for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, to talk about the continuous efforts to clean up Alaska's contaminated lands.

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Madilyn Rose, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage


Madilyn Rose is the program producer at Alaska Public Media. Reach her at mrose@alaskapublic.org. Learn more about Madilyn here.

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