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Environmental Issues
11:27 am
Wed June 12, 2013

Young Puget Sound Oysters Struggling With Acidification

Credit Flickr Photo/Paul Wilkinson

  A new study from Oregon State University shows that young oysters are struggling due to ocean acidification. But adult oysters are still growing. What does this mean for the future of wild oysters in the Puget Sound? David Hyde gets the details from Taylor Shellfish’s lead researcher Joth Davis. 

Environmental News
10:28 am
Tue June 11, 2013

Environmental Update With Ashley Ahearn

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The cleanup of the Duwamish River in Seattle is a continual hot topic in local environmental news.

 From the Duwamish River cleanup efforts to coal terminals to chuckling frogs; David Hyde talks with KUOW and EarthFix reporter Ashley Ahearn about the latest in Northwest environmental news. Plus, Ahearn talks about EarthFix’s upcoming documentary, "Voices of Coal: And EarthFix Multimedia Special."

Hanford Cleanup Deadlines
9:45 am
Mon June 10, 2013

Washington State Officials "Extremely Disappointed" Over Key Hanford Deadlines

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Originally published on Fri June 7, 2013 4:43 pm

Washington Governor Jay Inslee and the state attorney general say they’re quote ‘extremely disappointed’ that the U.S. Department of Energy may miss several key deadlines for cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

The two milestones that may be missed are: completing waste retrieval from two of Hanford’s aging single-shell tanks and finishing up construction on the Low Activity Waste Facility, one of the key parts of Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant.

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Oregon Genetically Modified Wheat
9:28 am
Fri June 7, 2013

Careful Purveyors Of Seeds Say Mistakes Still Happen

Originally published on Thu June 6, 2013 3:19 pm

There’s been a lot of speculation but few answers so far about how genetically modified wheat ended up in an Oregon field. Northwest farmers and seed purveyors say they go to great lengths to keep each variety of grain distinct, tracked and pure. And yet they concede, mistakes can still happen.

"A random isolated occurrence"

We’re in downtown Connell – prime Columbia Basin wheat country. Dana Herron is a seed salesman and as we talk I notice he’s a really clean guy. He carefully folds his paper napkin, and later he dons gloves to pump gas.

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Radioactive Mud
9:28 am
Fri June 7, 2013

Swallows Bring Radioactive Soil Into Hanford Waste Plant

Originally published on Fri June 7, 2013 10:07 am

Workers are back on the job at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s waste treatment plant. Work stopped this week when radioactive soil was found under the nests of some swallows.

Swallows used some radioactive mud to make nests on exposed beamwork in Hanford’s waste treatment plant. That’s the $12 billion factory designed to bind-up radioactive sludge in glass logs. The nests were found during routine tests, but this is the first radioactive contamination of the new plant.

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