"Workers Excavate Hanford Pool That Held Spent Fuel"
"Workers at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site have finished excavating a leaky pool built in the 1950s to hold spent fuel from nuclear reactors."
Source: AP, 09/11/2009
Northwest (OR WA)
"Oregon Regulators Drop Support for Cement Plant Rule"
"Oregon regulators say they will not support an exemption from federal pollution rules for a cement plant in Eastern Oregon that is one of the largest sources of mercury emissions in the nation."
Source: AP, 09/07/2009
"Restoring the Skagit"
Tidelands in Skagit County are being flooded to help restore the estuary.
Source: KOUW, 08/28/2009
"DEQ To Help Polluter Seek Federal Break on Mercury Emission"
"Oregon's top environmental agency plans to side with one of the state's biggest polluters in its effort to seek an exemption from tough new federal rules controlling the release of toxic mercury."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 08/20/2009
"Seattle Voters Don't Buy Shopping-Bag Charge"
"Seattle voters have turned down Referendum 1, which aimed to reduce throwaway bag use in Seattle by charging shoppers 20 cents for each disposable plastic or paper shopping bag provided by stores."
Source: Seattle Times, 08/20/2009
"Clash Over Rebirth of Mt. St. Helens"
Should Mt. St. Helens, which erupted almosty 30 years ago, be a National Park? There is a debate over whether the land should be used for recreation or to study how landscapes recover from violent disturbance.
Source: NYTimes, 08/18/2009
Plastic Industry Tackles Seattle Bag Fee
"SEATTLE - Leaders of this famously green city last year passed the nation's first grocery-bag fee, and other cities around the nation quickly followed. But the plastics industry has been fighting back, bringing lawsuits, aggressively lobbying lawmakers, and bankrolling a referendum in Seattle that aims to overturn the 20-cent charge. The measure goes before voters Tuesday."
Source: AP, 08/17/2009
"Revival or Dam-nation?"
"The push for green power could spawn a rush for small hydropower projects in the Northwest."
Source: High Country News, 08/03/2009
Puget Sound Enviros Slam WA Industrial Stormwater Permit
"A coalition of three nonprofit water protection groups are jointly requesting that the Washington Department of Ecology 'abandon its plans to weaken industrial stormwater protections.'"
Source: ENS, 07/23/2009
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