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Courtney Flatt
The U.S. Senate Tuesday passed a sweeping public lands bill, with measures meant to protect lands across the country. It鈥檚 expected to have a big impact on Washington鈥檚 lands, rives, and more. -
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A massive public lands bill includes protection for the Devil's Staircase wildlands in southern Oregon and for numerous rivers and streams in the state.
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Oregon鈥檚 bottle deposit system is recycling more containers than ever before despite major disruptions in global recycling markets.
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On Tuesday, the state of Washington, a Hanford union and a Hanford watchdog organization said they have tentatively settled a three-year old lawsuit over workers being made sick from toxic vapors from Hanford鈥檚 underground tanks.
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The idea is to put a fire-resistant buffer between one of Oregon鈥檚 fastest growing cities and the pine forest routinely burning around it.
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The gas and diesel you use to fuel your car are some of the biggest sources of greenhouse gasses and air pollution in Washington. Some lawmakers want to change that. -
The partial government shutdown is elevating the threat of wildfires in the West. That鈥檚 the contention of a dozen Democratic U.S. senators. -
For the last 35 years, the snowpack in the West鈥檚 mountains has resisted the impacts of global warming. But that could soon change, according to a new study out of Oregon State University.
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The Northwest is getting closer to the end of its long goodbye to coal-fired power. The region鈥檚 first coal plant will turn off its burners in just under two years. -
Washington state officials have fined the city of Vancouver $60,000 after nearly 600,000 gallons of sewage was released into the Columbia River in 2017.
