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Alaska Community Action on Toxics

29 years on the ground, 3 funders on the record.

Home groundAnchorage, AK
Founded1997
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Right nowGates of the Arctic (Ambler Road): Ambler Metals initiates Arctic mine permitting

The origin

How they started

Alaska Community Action on Toxics was founded in Anchorage in December 1997 to take on the health harms of pollution from industrial, resource extraction and military sites, existing and proposed. It works through advocacy, community education and research done with the communities affected, toward environmental justice for Alaskans.

How they run

Small and lean

We don’t hold a detailed federal filing for this group. Groups this size often file the short form or run below the IRS reporting line, so there’s no budget or crew to show here, and that’s no knock: some of the sharpest local defense in the country runs this way.

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The backers

Backed on the record by 444S Foundation, Campion Foundation and Wilderness Society, latest filing FY24.

Their ground

The places they defend

In the fight · Comments close Nov 2Gates of the Arctic (Ambler Road)

Plaintiff in Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Trump, challenging the reinstated Ambler road permits

Who’s defending it

See every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.

Where and what
Works onenvironmental health · environmental justice · resource extraction · military sites
Active inAlaska
Who writes the rules where they work

The Alaska congressional delegation averages 4 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard

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Ways in

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Sources and methodFunders: the funders’ own returns (Schedule I and 990-PF Part XV) via ProPublica, names and years only. Place links: MTJP editorial curation with per-link sources. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.