The Latest by Russ Maddox

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Russ lives in Seward, AK, and is a member of the Sierra Club Council of Leaders Executive Committee, Resurrection Bay Conservation Alliance, and Alaska Youth for Environmental Action. He was a Clean Air Ambassador with the 50 States United for Healthy Air event in 2013.

March 30, 2012

Tr-Ash Talk: Alaska Leaders Bury Their Heads In Coal Ash

(Russ Maddox is an Alaska Chapter Sierra Club volunteer.) As the rest of the nation wakes up and begins to realize how damaging wanton handling and disposal of coal ash truly is, regulators and leaders in Alaska continue to keep their heads buried in the sand, or in this case, coal ash. The forests of …