Environmental Protection Agency

Golden Valley Electric Association is facing a deadline on whether to upgrade or shut down its oldest and most reliable power plant. The utility’s board…

The Environmental Protection Agency has taken federal Clean Air Act-mandated actions to reduce Fairbanks North Pole area wintertime fine particulate…

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…

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

Golden Valley Electric Association will close a facility that processes coal ash produced by the Healy 1 power plant within five years, because it’s been…

Fairbanks City Councilman David Pruhs has directed staff to draft a plan over the next 90 days on how the city will respond to the growing problem of…

City and borough officials announced Thursday that another groundwater contamination hotspot has been found in the Fairbanks area, this time around South…

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…

More than 60 homes around Fairbanks International Airport will be hooked-up to the College Utilities water system this summer, because area residents…