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Headline	Author	Published	Section
ELP, I Need Some Buddies		19 Aug 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Environmental Leadership Program, Washington (all these topics)

Curse D' Alene		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Curse D' Alene In a precedent-setting move, U.S. federal officials signed an agreement yesterday ceding control of the cleanup of Idaho's highly polluted Coeur d'Alene Basin to state, local, and tribal officials. For more than a century, mining waste from the Silver Valley washed down the Coeur d'Alene River into Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Spokane River, and from there into Lake ...
Topics: Idaho, rivers and watersheds, toxics, US EPA, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

Downwind for the Count		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Downwind for the Count Thousands of "downwinders" -- people living in the path of radiation releases from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation -- scored a legal victory yesterday when a federal appeals court ordered a lower court to reconsider two lawsuits against five former Hanford contractors. From 1944 to 1989, Hanford produced most of the nation's plutonium for warheads; research conducted ...
Topics: health, nuclear power, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

The Little Solar Station That Could		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Little Solar Station That Could The Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant at Washington state's Hanford nuclear reservation, sits just one mile from the White Bluffs Solar Station. For the past three weeks, Energy Northwest, the Pacific Northwest's nuclear power producer, has been generating a tiny amount of electricity from solar panels at White Bluffs and ...
Topics: energy, news, nuclear power, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, Washington (all these topics)

The Shipping News		21 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Shipping News Salmon and other imperiled species would not be damaged by a proposed deepening of the Columbia River channel, federal scientists announced yesterday. Those findings -- biological opinions required under the Endangered Species Act -- will enable the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Columbia River, fishing, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, placemaking, Washington, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

PC-beware		07 May 2002	Daily Grist
PC-beware A female killer whale that washed up on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula earlier this year has been found to have off-the-charts levels of PCBs in its blubber, according to tests in federal labs. The levels were so high that the first time scientists tested the orca, their machine could not read the results and the equipment had to be recalibrated. With 1,000 parts PCBs per million parts of fat, the killer wha ...
Topics: marine life, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Hatching a New Plan		20 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Hatching a New Plan In the first systematic attempt to reform Washington State's fish-hatchery system -- the world's largest -- the Hatchery Scientific Review Group issued a report yesterday recommending the closure of one Puget Sound-area hatchery and alterations for 22 others. The salmon born in Washington State's 100-plus hatcheries are thought to pose a threat to wild salmon because t ...
Topics: fishing, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, Washington (all these topics)

All Wet		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
All Wet For almost a decade, developers have been required by federal law to create 1.78 acres of wetlands for every acre they destroy. Sounds great, but a new study by Washington State's Department of Ecology found that only about 13 percent of 24 replacement wetlands in the state are successful. Wetlands-protection rules were established to protect watershed health, provide critical habitat, and reduce danger ...
Topics: rivers and watersheds, Washington, wetlands (all these topics)

Long Live King County		17 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Long Live King County How far would you go to stop urban sprawl? That's the question of the hour in King County, Wash., where a private anti-sprawl proposal is pushing the conservation envelope on several fronts. At issue is a proposed $185 million purchase of second-and third-growth forest just east of Seattle. The land purchase by the Evergreen Forest Trust would ...
Topics: Internal Revenue Service, land stewardship, logging, placemaking, Washington, wilderness (all these topics)

Animal Crackers		16 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Animal Crackers Undaunted by the post-Sep. 11 anti-terrorism climate, an Animal Liberation Front spokesperson yesterday released the first-ever "year-end report" on illegal actions committed in the name of animals and the environment, or so-called eco-terrorism. The report cites 137 such acts in 2001, including an act of arson at the University of Washington that resulted in $5.3 ...
Topics: animal welfare, Federal Bureau of Investigation, GMOs, Washington (all these topics)

The Persistence of Mercury		01 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
The Persistence of Mercury Anyone who's ever broken an old-style thermometer knows it's tough to clean up mercury, but the state of Washington is undeterred. The state's Ecology Department has created the nation's only program to battle persistent bioaccumulative toxins, or PBTs, and mercury will be the first target. Found in substances ranging from eye makeup to industrial waste to contaminated seafood, mercury can cause neurol ...
Topics: health, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

They Could Car Less		24 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
They Could Car Less Seattle is finding sweet success with an experimental program that encourages couples to give up their extra vehicle. After a recent nine-week pilot program, six of 23 couples were thinking of selling their extra car, two were trying to sell it, and two had already sold it. The couples were paid $25 for the first three weeks of the program, during which they continued to use their extra car and k ...
Topics: cars, placemaking, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Going With the Wind		16 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Going With the Wind "The Pacific Northwest is well on its way to becoming the wind capital of the U.S.," says Tom Gray of the American Wind Energy Association. For example, the new Stateline Wind Energy Project on the Washington-Oregon border will begin operations this fall with 396, 242-foot turbines, together capable of powering 60,000 homes. Wind power generates only 0.1 percent of the natio ...
Topics: energy, Northwest, Oregon, Washington, wind power (all these topics)

Smoke on the Water, Fire on the Hill		01 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Smoke on the Water, Fire on the Hill Four firefighters may have lost their lives last month in Washington state because of the Endangered Species Act, U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) charged yesterday. McInnis, chair of the House Resources forests subcommittee, cited unnamed sources who said that fire crews delayed helicopter water drops for three hours or more while dispatchers determined whether water could be ...
Topics: US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness (all these topics)

Don't Touch That Fish With a 10-foot Pole		30 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Don't Touch That Fish With a 10-foot Pole Mercury was discovered in Columbia River fish in Washington state more than a decade ago, but the state hasn't yet posted signs to warn anglers about the dangers of eating mercury-tainted fish. One Health Department official said the major reason for not posting signs was that they would cost too much. Meanwhile, a state government website urges folks visiting Lake ...
Topics: Columbia River, marine life, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Schell Game		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Schell Game Even though U.S. President Bush has withdrawn the U.S. from the Kyoto treaty on climate change, Seattle Mayor Paul Schell (D) and four City Council members announced yesterday that Seattle would easily meet what would have been the greenhouse-gas-reduction target for the U.S. under Kyoto. The city promised to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels and to t ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, hydropower, politics, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Whale of a Time A review of A Whale Hunt	Elizabeth Grossman	07 Mar 2001	Arts and Minds
For countless generations the Makah Indians have lived on the shores of Neah Bay, in the corner of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the northwesternmost tip of the 48 states. Until the 1920s, hunting the gray whales that swam past this stretch of coastline as they migrated between Baja California and Alaska's Bering Sea had been a Makah tradition for 2,000 years. Gray whale blues. Photo: NOAA. In the early 20th century, co ...
Topics: oceans, Washington, whaling (all these topics)

Letter of the Law Can laws be written that inspire reverence for the land?	David Mayfield	09 Feb 2001	Main Dish
As usual, Charles Wilkinson is pacing. Hands stuffed in the front pockets of his Levi's, head down, he paces the lecture hall, up one stairway and down the other, his students' heads swiveling to follow him. Charles Wilkinson, law man. Photo: Larry Harwood, University of Colorado at Boulder. But on this December morning, during the last meeting of Wilkinson's natural resources law course at t ...
Topics: Colorado, education, politics, Washington, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Wait a Minute There, Buster	Ben White	15 Jun 2000	Muckraker
Aides to Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) got a bit of a shock last Saturday when they logged onto the website of Maria Cantwell, one of Gorton's Democratic challengers, and saw a goofy photo of their boss posing with "Buster the Salmon," a costumed protestor who dogs Gorton at campaign events over his refusal to support dam breaching on the lower Snake River. Buster and Slade. (Yes, we too stole this photo!) Turns out that Cantwell's cam ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, politics, Washington (all these topics)

How Will the West Be Won?	Ben White	27 Mar 2000	Muckraker
In our last column, we promised to put the presidential campaign on the back burner and take a look at some of the key House and Senate races likely to decide control of the 107th Congress, as well some of the competitive gubernatorial contests. Instead of attempting to cover the entire country in one column (a feat exhausting for both reader and columnist), we will begin this week with the Pacific region and move on in subsequent columns thr ...
Topics: Alaska, California, climate, Greenpeace, Hawaii, Muckraker, Oregon, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Giving Unfair Trade a Shake	David Korten	29 Nov 1999	Soapbox
Delegates to the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle will be met by as many as 50,000 protesters from all around the world. WTO advocates seek to dismiss the protestors as anti-trade extremists who want to turn back the clock on human progress. In truth, the vast majority of the protestors will be coming from mainstream churches, unions, universities, independent businesses, and a wide variety of civic organizations concerned with s ...
Topics: business, globalization, politics, Seattle, Washington, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

What I Did on My Summer Vacation	Ben White	18 Aug 1999	Muckraker
August is prime R&R time for lawmakers, who are kicking back in their home states and pressing the all-important constituent flesh. No such vacation at the Sierra Club, however, where summer means it's time to drive lawmakers crazy by running ads against them. On the receiving end of the group's radio spots this time around are Reps. Chris John (D-La.), Anne Northup (R-Ky.), Heather Wilson (R-N.M.), and Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-Mich ...
Topics: globalization, land stewardship, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, Washington (all these topics)

Power Play	Ben White	24 Jun 1999	Muckraker
Several weeks ago in this magazine, Sara Patton of the NW Energy Coalition uncorked an acidic rant against the aluminum industry (and its lackeys in Congress) for strong-arming the Bonneville Power Administration into providing the industry with below-market electricity rates. Aluminum plant on the Columbia River, Wash. There is still no agreement on paper, but it looks as though the Pacific Northwest's aluminati (Patton's coinage, not mine) will get a deal fa ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, Muckraker, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Bird in the Hand Worth Two for Bush?	Ben White	02 Jun 1999	Muckraker
While you were smoothing on suntan lotion or stoking the barbecue this weekend, Texas state legislators were madly finishing up work before their midnight May 31 deadline. Gov. George W. Bush's tax cuts and education initiatives got most of the attention, but we kept our gaze trained on the environmental bills likely to come up in debate as "Dubya" leaves the friendly confines of Austin and hits the presidential campaign tra ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, mining, Muckraker, politics, renewable energy, Washington (all these topics)

Sprawl Brawl	Ben White	28 Apr 1999	Muckraker
The Sierra Club released poll numbers recently indicating that 47 percent of voters would be more likely to support a presidential candidate prepared to aggressively attack the problem of urban sprawl. Most people associate VP Al Gore with that issue, but Seattle Mayor Paul Schell has his own ideas. Schell jumped on Bill Bradley's presidential bandwagon last week and told this reporter a large part of the reason was the former New Jersey senator and hoop ...
Topics: ... Muckraker, non-government organizations, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, Seattle, Sierra Club, Texas, United States, Washington (all these topics)

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