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Environment

Craig Jasmer co-founded the Lewis County Water Alliance to fight a proposed water bottling plant near Randle, Washington. CREDIT: Tom Banse/N3

Lewis County Pushback Leads Washington Lawmakers To Consider Bottling Plant Restrictions

Uproar in Lewis County has pushed the Washington Legislature to the verge of closing the tap for water permits for new water bottling plants statewide. Business groups are mounting an 11th-hour push to stop what they consider to be an overreaction in Olympia that they say could cost jobs and unfairly tarnishes a healthy product. Continue Reading Lewis County Pushback Leads Washington Lawmakers To Consider Bottling Plant Restrictions

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Acting BLM Director William Perry Pendley stands in the mostly empty suite of offices at the agency's new planned headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. Kirk Siegler/NPR

BLM Director Defends Agency’s Controversial Move From D.C. To Western U.S.

The Bureau of Land Management decides who gets to do what on some 250 million acres of public land in the country, or to put it another way roughly one-tenth of all the land in the U.S. Relocating its headquarters to the West, where most of its actual land is, has been floated for years. But now the Trump administration is actually making it happen. Continue Reading BLM Director Defends Agency’s Controversial Move From D.C. To Western U.S.

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A new sign graces the entrance onto the Hanford site near Richland, Washington. CREDIT: ANNA KING

Federal Watchdog Criticizes Energy Department For Hanford Cleanup, Tunnel Collapse

The report from the independent Government Accountability Office says the U.S. Department of Energy has not found the root causes of the partial collapse of the waste-storage tunnel, and that failures in DOE’s investigation, inspections and maintenance of other aging and contaminated facilities is concerning. Continue Reading Federal Watchdog Criticizes Energy Department For Hanford Cleanup, Tunnel Collapse

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