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HOOD RIVER — The Hood River Rotary Club heard a presentation from a spokesman from the Office of Communications at the Hanford Site on Tuesday, Aug. 23.
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The City of The Dalles, leading a coalition that includes Wasco County and the Port of The Dalles, is seeking a $600,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help public and private property owners evaluate environmental hazards on their property.
A grape harvester burns on a hill above the 5000 block of Mill Creek Road. The harvester was fully engulfed when crews arrived Tuesday afternoon, and had an estimated 30 gallons of diesel fuel and oil on board.
Republic Services encourages local customers and communities to incorporate safety and environmental responsibility into the festivities with these tips:
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Radioactive contamination is spreading inside a deteriorating processing plant on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state that was last used in the 1950s and 1960s to process plutonium for the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Columbia River Restoration Act passed in the House and the Senate Friday as part of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). The legislation will now be sent to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
PORTLAND (AP) — A monitoring well installed after last month's train derailment near Mosier has detected oil contamination in the ground water.
Cold weather and ongoing litigation have delayed the filling of a hole next to an organic market and deli in downtown White Salmon.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Health officials in Oregon and Washington said Monday that people should protect themselves against mercury and PCB contamination by limiting consumption of certain fish species from a 150-mile section of the Columbia River.
It’s hard to figure out how biotech wheat recently discovered in northeast Oregon might have escaped detection for so long before now, Oregon State University’s wheat breeder says.
