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Hanford Will Lock Up Nuclear Waste In Glass — If The White House Lets It [1]

"Hanford vitrification plant set to open but some fear Trump officials are pushing for a cheaper alternative"

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Source: Science [14], 09/17/2025

"Wright ‘Admitted’ Stalling $30B Hanford Plant, Senator Says" [15]

"Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Democratic Sen. Patty Murray that he’s looking to delay operations at a multibillion-dollar vitrification plant at the Hanford nuclear cleanup site in Washington state, despite public statements signaling otherwise, the senator said."

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Source: E&E News [16], 09/12/2025

"2 Firefighters Working On Bear Gulch Fire Arrested By Border Patrol" [17]

"Two firefighters working on the Bear Gulch Fire [Wash.] were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Wednesday."

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Source: KING5 [25], 08/29/2025

Aging US Railroad Bridges Are Self-Inspected And Findings Are Kept Secret [26]

"The fire burned for about nine hours, billowing smoke and scorching the wooden trestles of a nearly 75-year-old railroad bridge that spans the Marys River in Corvallis, home to Oregon State University."

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Source: Howard Center [29], 08/25/2025

Saving Big Cats From Humans [30]

As expanded development on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula encroaches on prime wildlife habitat, big cats find it harder to avoid people, and many wind up dead. In this Inside Story Q&A, Liza Gross of Inside Climate News describes how she and photographer/editor Michael Kodas worked with a local cougar protection team to track a family of big cats to their den and through the area.

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Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill State’s Wildfire Risk Map [37]

"This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact."

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Source: ProPublica [38], 08/12/2025

Coastal Flooding Challenges Cities Around the U.S. [39]

The United States has nearly 100,000 miles of coastline and much of it is at risk of flooding. But what that inundation looks like varies widely from place to place. From storm surges to land subsidence, the latest Backgrounder details the different types of flooding and the threats they pose to coastal communities, especially sea level cities.

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"A Logging Protest In The Treetops Ends In Terror, Activists Say" [48]

"Protesters lived in a tree for 40 days on the Olympic Peninsula to protest logging of older forests." "On the 40th night of the protest, a black Jeep drove up a logging road and stopped near the base of a towering grand fir."

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Source: Washington Post [50], 06/30/2025

Rethinking Forest Management in the Pyrocene [51]

Recent urban-interface infernos, fueled by climate change, leave no doubt that we have entered the age of runaway fire. Writer and ecologist Lauren Oakes writes that large-scale combustion is permanently reshaping ecosystems and societies as we learn to live with wildfire, not just fight it. Instead of perpetuating problematic approaches to forest management, experts call for confronting the root causes of this crisis and adopting science-informed responses.

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"Trump Topples $1 Billion Columbia River Settlement Deal" [60]

"President Donald Trump declared Thursday that the federal government must pull out of a settlement agreement that had halted the long-running legal battle over 14 dams in the Pacific Northwest, reopening a fight over the future of fish populations in the Columbia River Basin."

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Source: E&E News [63], 06/16/2025

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