Staff from Brice Construction sink monitoring wells into the beach at Tanani Point on July 14, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. The site, which is owned by the U.S. Army used to be a tank farm which has been in various stages of testing and remediation for contamination for decades.
As the Trump administration moves to rescind regulations on so-called forever chemicals, Alaska lawmakers hope to create a separate, stricter set of…