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"Feds Ready to Spend $2 Billion on Hanford Cleanup"
AP, 05/28/2009The economic stimulus will bring another $2 billion in cleanup funds to the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.
Chase for Wind Power Turns to Public Lands
Portland Oregonian, 05/25/2009"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."
Gov. Orders Wash. Agencies To Cut Greenhouse Emissions
Seattle Times, 05/22/2009"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."
Judge Mulls Breaching Snake River Dams
LA Times, 05/20/2009"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."
"A Mountain of Trouble"
Eugene Register-Guard, 05/11/2009An "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."
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