(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) 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.

Clean-up of so-called forever chemicals at Tanani Point remains unfunded and unscheduled, said U.S. Army representatives during a Monday evening meeting with…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.