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Hanford Nuclear Reservation
2:03 pm
Fri February 15, 2013

Possible Leak At Hanford Nuclear Reservation

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Originally published on Fri February 15, 2013 2:54 pm

RICHLAND, Wash. – A tank full of radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington may be leaking. Friday the U.S. Department of Energy and its contractors say liquid levels in an underground radioactive waste tank are going down.

The single-hulled tank is called T-111. It’s located in central Hanford in a group of tanks called T-farm. The Department of Energy reports the rate of loss is about 150 to 300 gallons of liquid a year.

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Environmental Future
9:00 am
Thu February 14, 2013

A Conversation With Al Gore

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Former Vice President Al Gore speaking at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013.
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Al Gore has been delving into the future. The former vice president and media mogul (he just sold his Current TV network to Al-Jazeera English) says we are at the dawn of a new era.

In his new book, “The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change,” he takes an in-depth look at major shifts occurring in the world: globalization linked to automation and digital connections that are shaping a world where fewer workers are needed; population growth coinciding with a widening gulf between the haves and have-nots; new biological breakthroughs that are bringing humans into control of evolution.

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Arctic Drilling In Doubt
5:06 pm
Wed February 13, 2013

Shell's Arctic Vessels: To Asia For Major Repairs, Anacortes Area For Tests

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The semi-submersible Mighty Servant 3 carrying an oil rig in 2006. Shell plans to use similar ships to haul two Alaskan oil rigs to Asia.
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Shell's Kulluk rig, under tow to Alaska's Kodiak Island in January after running aground.
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Shell's Arctic Challenger barge during testing in December in Puget Sound off Samish Island, Wash.
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UPDATE: Shell plans to use three tugs to tow the damaged Kulluk oil rig to Dutch Harbor in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, where it will await a longer trip to an unnamed Asian drydock. Shell and the US Coast Guard have disbanded the joint command formed after the Seattle-bound rig broke free from its sole tugboat, then ran aground. Officials said the Kulluk's outer hull was damaged but not breached. They did not specify the degree of damage, saying only, "The outer hull did receive damage as expected with a vessel being aground during adverse weather." 

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Clean Energy Development
8:58 am
Wed February 13, 2013

Wash. Gov. Inslee Sets Sights On ‘Defeating’ Climate Change

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Governor Jay Inslee (right) joined Capitol Land Trust executive director Eric Erler at the conservation group's annual breakfast in Olympia.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says he wants to defeat climate change. Rather than taxing carbon or pursuing a cap-and-trade system to restrict the emission of greenhouse gases, the Democratic state executive wants more clean energy research and development.

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