To influence regulations pertaining to development of a hard-rock mine in Haines, residents should weigh in on the scoping phase of an environmental impact statement, a speaker with a statewide environmental health and justice organization told a group at the Chilkat Center Friday.
Heidi Zimmer, environmental health and justice coordinator for Alaska Community Action on Toxics, said the scoping stage – when regulatory agencies collect comments on what should be studied – is when to…