A conversation with Seattle
This isn’t Hanford’s only ongoing leak. At least six single-walled tanks are leaking radioactive waste as well. In mid-February, the DOE confirmed that T-111 was leaking 150 to 300 gallons of radioactive liquid waste each year. (The following week, five more leaking tanks were reported by DOE.) Continue reading A Different Kind of Leak Gives Lie to DOE’s Hanford “Clean-Up”
Two years and 11 days after the 2011 tsunami ravaged Japan’s coast, a 20-foot boat called the Sai-shou-maru washed up on the Washington coast near Long Beach. Empty of human life, it carried an unusual live cargo: five striped beakfish, with some “30 to 50 species of plants and animals” total, said staff at Washington State’s Department of Ecology. Continue reading Japanese Tsunami Yields Up a Real-Life “Life of Pi” Scene
This looks fishy, doesn’t it? Washington residents average just 6.5 grams of fish per day, while Oregonians inhale almost 30 times that? It makes you wonder how on earth Ivar’s manages to stay in business. More worryingly, these fish consumption rates are what the state uses to determine acceptable levels of water pollution. Continue reading Washington State’s Water-Pollution Regs Assume People Hate Fish