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Autism explosion starts to look like "It's the environment, stupid" (not the...
There were two pretty big developments on the autism story today. You've no doubt heard that for a while there it looked like a preservative in vaccinations given to children for measles, mumps and...
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Why do environmental regulators soft-pedal truly disturbing findings?
It's not like we needed another study to tell us that air pollution levels in some places are high enough to make people sick and even kill them. But the way New Jersey environmental regulators handled...
View ArticleEnvironmental regulator tells Congress: U.S. efforts to regulate toxics are a...
It’s been more than 30 years since Congress passed a law called the Toxic Substances Control Act. It hasn’t controlled many toxics, though. And today a high-ranking environmental regulator from the...
View ArticleHelp prevent stormwater pollution -- how to capture those April showers with...
Former Dateline Earth denizen Lisa Stiffler, now digging up all kinds of interesting material on stormwater and other topics for Sightline.org, came out this week with a helpful hands-on guide to how...
View ArticleFederal scientists ordered to do half-baked analysis of Alaskan oil-drilling...
When the Obama administration not long ago went ahead with what could become a major expansion of oil drilling off Alaska's coasts, it did so with full knowledge that its scientists hadn't been able to...
View ArticleHanford Nuclear Reservation: Big problems at nation's #1 dump, but stimulus...
Maybe it was the post-Earth Day glow, or perhaps the prospect of a long-delayed vacation. But today when I and colleagues from the Society of Environmental Journalists visited the most contaminated...
View ArticleCourt backs strong Washington rules to rein in polluted rainwater runoff
In a ruling with statewide implications that hands a victory to environmentalists, the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board rejected a system to control polluted rainwater runoff in Clark County...
View ArticleInvestigateWest co-hosts stormwater forum that shows civic discourse is still...
InvestigateWest reached a milestone this week when we co-hosted a large public-policy forum on the State Capitol grounds in Olympia.The subject was stormwater, the polluted rainwater runoff I’ve been...
View ArticleState caught in crossfire with proposed stormwater control rules
How far should Washington go to rein in the largest source of water pollution fouling Puget Sound and many other water bodies in the state?Friday is the deadline for the public to weigh in on a...
View ArticleActivists, truckers, religious leaders call for Port of Seattle to treat...
Singing the African-American spiritual “Wade in the Water,” activists and religious leaders and truck drivers tried Wednesday to breach security at a downtown conference of seaport authorities to...
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