Midday Report: September 16, 2024

(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

^{On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:}
The Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska received $15 million in funding from the U.S. E.P.A. that they will use to expand composting. Tribes and Indigenous groups from across the country met in Anchorage this week for a national conference on climate. And a remote site in western Alaska may become the country's first new graphite mine since the 1950's.