"Laundry Waste Water Harming Puget Sound, Study Says"
"Dirty water from residential washing machines is a significant source of a toxin polluting Puget Sound, according to a study released Tuesday."
Source: Tacoma News Tribune, 09/30/2009
Northwest (OR WA)
SEJ Joins Amicus Brief on Dangerously Expanded FOIA Exemption
Several media organizations have joined the case of a Puget Sound resident denied information, under the "law enforcement" exemption to FOIA, that would identify the locations and potential blast ranges of explosive ordnance stored in the area.
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"Scientists Take To The Trees To Measure Global Warming"
Scientists use treetop gondolas in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southeast Washington to study the effects of global warming on trees.
Source: Reuters, 09/18/2009
"New Northwest Salmon Plan Modifies Bush Approach"
"Seattle -- Fisheries managers announced Tuesday that they would enhance but not significantly alter the government's current strategy for saving salmon from extinction in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest, drawing criticism from conservationists."
Source: LA Times, 09/16/2009
"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
"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
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