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We need our own climate emergency research center
Climate change is a global problem, but its impacts vary by location. To meet the needs of the Puget Sound region, we need our own center for research.
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Cleaning up nuclear waste at Hanford: Secrecy, delays and budget debates
A plan to turn radioactive waste into glass logs has raised a lot of questions, many of which don’t appear to have public answers.
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Heat and smoke protections for WA farmworkers may fall short
While deaths and illnesses among agricultural workers mount, state regulators face pressure to do more to protect them.
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Seven years after B.C. mine disaster, waste still flows
A local citizens group is fighting proposed changes to a ‘temporary permit’ that it fears could allow the waste to be dumped for decades.
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What would you need to give up to save salmon in WA?
Washingtonians are all for increasing fish passages to save salmon and orcas — but when action conflicts with the ways we live, things get complicated.