Borough Air Quality Division

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.

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

Fairbanks North Star Borough voters turned over air pollution control to the state last fall in a ballot initiative. Since then, the Alaska Department of…

State air-quality regulators told local officials and about 50 members of the public Tuesday that the Fairbanks North Star Borough soon will have to…

Local, state and military officials will meet jointly tonight to talk about a new series of federally mandated air-pollution control measures that will be…

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly approved an ordinance Thursday that’s intended to enable more area residents to qualify for a borough program…

A Fairbanks North Star Borough-hosted meeting on air quality drew more than a hundred people in North Pole last night. The sometimes-tense meeting was…

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Air Pollution Control Commission decided Tuesday it can’t support an ordinance proposed by Assemblyman Lance Roberts that…

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly last week delayed consideration of technology that could reduce emissions from wood heating. An ordinance…

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly got to work Thursday night fine-tuning an ordinance that spells out how the borough’s new air-quality…