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Rally attendees said Oregon politicians and businesses continue to treat northeast Oregon as an 'environmental sacrifice zone ...
The budget proposal released Friday calls for the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington to receive funding at the same level as the current fiscal year. It’s the only Department of Energy ...
The Hanford Field Office provided a statement addressing concerns about the shipments of tank waste during the Test Bed Initiative. "The shipping method to the grouting and disposal sites in ...
The top local leader for the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has resigned, which follows the resignation of his second in command. Brian Vance has been the Department of Energy Hanford ...
The company has already started site evaluation on 8,000 acres, an area nearly 10 times the size of Central Park in New York and enough space for 3.45 million photovoltaic panels. (Hanford’s ...
Workers started preparing to clean up a highly radioactive spill beneath the Hanford site 324 Building near Richland and the Columbia River in 2017. (Courtesy Department of Energy) More than a ...
Layoffs at the Hanford site near Richland included safety engineers, environmental scientists and employees who protect workers’ rights, said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., in a news release Friday.
An adequate federal workforce is essential for oversight of the work executed by nearly 12,000 contractor workers at the Hanford site. These layoffs will hurt companies, workers, and their ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Washington Senator Patty Murray spoke out on Friday after “mass firings” from the Hanford site and the Bonneville Power Administration amid efforts by the Trump ...
Traffic crowds Highway 240 nearly every morning outside the Hanford Site’s sprawling, sage-studded industrial complex. This site churned out plutonium for nuclear weapons during World War II and ...