air quality

The Fairbanks/North Pole area’s first air-quality alert of the season is in effect. That means state monitors predict the air near the city will be polluted enough to pose a health risk, and residents should not use their woodstoves.

As natural gas capacity improves in the Fairbanks/North Pole area, more residential customers can heat their homes with it. The Interior Gas Utility is having a series of town-hall meetings, starting tonight at the North Pole Library , to answer questions about how it could work.

The Fairbanks-North Pole area air pollution problem is slowly getting better, according to a state report released Wednesday. The report covers a year…

A new compound found in Fairbanks’s winter air might reveal new strategies for fighting air pollution. Researchers at University of Alaska Fairbanks have…

Fort Wainwright officials have given members of the public another 60 days to offer comments on proposals to replace or upgrade the post’s old coal-fired…

A Fairbanks-based company hopes to begin construction in a couple of weeks on a facility that will dry firewood so it’ll burn cleaner. Aurora Energy…

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has submitted a new fine particulate pollution control plan for the Fairbanks-North Pole area, to the…

One way to clean up winter air is to get Interior Alaska residents to stop using old, polluting woodstoves. The Environmental Protection Agency just…

EPA scientists say the death rate in the Fairbanks North Star Borough has fallen because citizens are working to clean the air. That was announced among…

US Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler visited Fairbanks yesterday (Mon) to gather input on a new plan to reduce local wintertime…