"Feds Ready to Spend $2 Billion on Hanford Cleanup"
The economic stimulus will bring another $2 billion in cleanup funds to the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.
Source: AP, 05/28/2009
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Cumulative Ocean Impacts Mapped Off U.S. and Mexican Shores
Researchers from California and Hawaii have analyzed 25 factors and developed a map that reflects the relative cumulative magnitude of their effects on the waters extending for about 250-350 miles off the shores of Washington, Oregon, California, and the Baja Peninsula.
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Chase for Wind Power Turns to Public Lands
"Rows of tall turbines have already remade the landscape on wheat farms and ridgelines on private land around the region. But so far there have been no wind farms built on public land in the Northwest. That's about to change."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 05/25/2009
Gov. Orders Wash. Agencies To Cut Greenhouse Emissions
"Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday ordered [Washington] state to reach agreement with its single largest polluter to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by half over the next 15 years."
Source: Seattle Times, 05/22/2009
Judge Mulls Breaching Snake River Dams
"Federal officials, who have spent much of the last decade 'avoiding their obligations under the Endangered Species Act,' need a contingency plan to save the endangered fish, the judge says."
Source: LA Times, 05/20/2009
"A Mountain of Trouble"
An "eco-friendly" developer in Sweet Home, Oregon, has brought "a nightmare of garbage-dumping fines from state environmental regulators, an asbestos investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an investigation by Oregon charities regulators, and numerous civil lawsuits from angry creditors."
Source: Eugene Register-Guard, 05/11/2009
WA State Secret Deal on Coal-Plant Emissions Raises Ire
Seattle Times lets the cat out of the bag with an April 7, 2009, story describing the secret agreement between the administration of Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Canada-based TransAlta.
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Public Comment Open for Renewable Energy Zones
The Western Governors' Association and the US DOE begin Phase 1 of a 4-phase process, with initial designation of suitable zones for renewable power generation in the western US, Canada, and Mexico.
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