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Rejecting The Mainstream
10:28 am
Wed May 22, 2013

Portland Voters Keep Fluoride Out Of Drinking Water

Credit Oregon Public Broadcasting Photo/April Baer
Dentist Jay Levy, organizer Kim Kaminski, and volunteers with Clean Water Portland, which opposed adding fluoride to Portland water.

Voters in Portland, Oregon have decide not to add fluoride to their municipal drinking water. Seattle and most other large cities in the US added the chemical decades ago to prevent cavities in children.

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Battling Algae Blooms
8:57 am
Thu April 25, 2013

Lake Managers Get New Tool To Combat Algae

Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 11:40 am


Nothing spoils a summer swim in your favorite lake like an algae bloom. These become more common as the weather warms up.  A lake in Federal Way, Washington -- near Seattle -- is serving as a proving ground for a possible new tool to combat toxic blooms.


Almost every summer until last summer, Lake Lorene would turn pea soup green.

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Water Pollution Claims
9:09 am
Wed April 3, 2013

Environmentalists Announce Water Pollution Lawsuit Over Escaped Coal

Credit Lamont Granquist
Laura James pulls a piece of black porous rock from the water beneath the railroad bridge in Ballard in Seattle.

Environmental groups have collected samples of black rock collected in water bodies along train tracks in the Northwest and found that some of that rock is coal. The Sierra Club, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, Columbia Riverkeeper and other environmental groups have sent a notice of intent to sue BNSF Railway and several coal companies for violations of the Clean Water Act.

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Environment
9:00 am
Thu December 27, 2012

The Next Act For Clean Water

Credit Flickr photo/Ibrahim Areef
What is the future of clean water?

The Clean Water Act turned 40 this year. What has it accomplished? Where would we be without it? And what will the next 40 years look like for clean water in this country? Weekday presents a special broadcast produced by KUOW's EarthFix and Living On Earth from Public Radio International.

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