NGP Readers: If you can attend these EPA meetings in Kaktovik and Barrow, please do! ADN.  The federal Environmental Protection Agency is holding two public hearings in Barrow this week over air and water permits the agency is preparing to propose for oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Arctic.  (Actually there are three meetings, characterized as information 'sharing' meetings -- not public hearings -- and are scheduled for Barrow and Kaktovik today, tomorrow and Friday.  -dh) EPA officials say the goal of the meetings is to present information about the permits [...]