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Nuclear Waste Seeping From Container In Hazardous Wash. State Facility
2013-02-16 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: They thought they'd managed this problem a few years ago. But Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee got a disturbing call Friday from Energy Secretary Steven Chu: Nuclear waste is leaking out of a tank in one of the most contaminated nuclear waste sites in the U.S. Inslee released a statement, saying a single shell tank at Hanford Nuclear Reservation is slowly losing between 150 and 300 gallons of radioactive waste each year. All of the liquid was removed from the tank in February 1995; what's left...
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Fire destroys elementary school in Vancouver, Wash. (w/Video)
2013-02-04 18:09:00| American School & University
500 students displaced from 67-year-old Crestline Elementary. Schoolhouse Beat read more
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Proposal to boost capacity of pipeline could mean more oil tanker traffic in Wash. waters
2013-01-28 06:54:35| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The company announced earlier this month that there was so much interest in long-term purchase contracts for Canadian tar-sands oil that it wants to boost capacity of its proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline, The Seattle Times reported Sunday .
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Proposal to boost capacity of pipeline could mean more oil tanker traffic in Wash. waters
2013-01-28 05:55:29| Energy - Topix.net
The company announced earlier this month that there was so much interest in long-term purchase contracts for Canadian tar-sands oil that it wants to boost capacity of its proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline, The Seattle Times reported Sunday .
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Essay: A green Nixon doesn't wash
2013-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Richard Nixon would be 100 years old today, and on the anniversary of his birth, it's tempting to portray the 37th U.S. president as a major environmental advocate. That would be a mistake, for it would let modern-day politics trump an important history lesson. Nixon said and did things about the environment that seem courageous from today's perspective: "Clean air is not free, and neither is clean water," he said in his 1970 State of the Union address. "Through our years of past carelessness...
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