Can family farms in the Pacific Northwest be saved?
With residential and commercial development taking over, it’s an uphill battle to preserve working orchards and ag land
Mar
20, 2025
Oct
31, 2024
Growing issue: As energy production increases so do chemical impacts to critical habitats
As the BPA seeks to expand its network of transmission lines, an Oregon salmon stream serves as an example of what can be done without herbicides
Jan
11, 2024
Two planned nuclear power projects in Pac NW are scrapped
In 2020, Oregon company NuScale won $1.35 billion in federal funds. It lost $58.3 million in three months last year
Jul
20, 2023
Spent naval nuclear reactor compartments: Part of Hanford’s complicated issues
Retired reactors from Navy subs are also going to nuclear waste sites on top of Idaho’s Snake River Aquifer
Feb
15, 2023
Washington v. Army fight over PFAS contamination escalates
The Department of Ecology has sent the U.S. Army a legal demand to clean a training center that contaminated residential wells with “forever chemicals”
Dec
5, 2022
Washington issues demand to U.S. Army: Clean up ‘forever chemicals’
The U.S. Army’s Yakima Training Center contaminated scores of private wells, but it’s resisting providing assistance to all those affected
