Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Department of Energy, to the consternation of environmental groups, is preparing ...

DOE was required by the legally binding Tri-Party Agreement to decide by Dec. 31 where to grout some of its low-activity radioactive waste. Hanford has 56 million gallons of waste stored in ...

Baker County commissioners have joined state and federal officials in opposing the potential transportation of liquid ...

Some 2,000 gallons of low-level, liquid radioactive waste are set to be shipped from the Hanford Site in Richland next year, and they might be passing through Spokane. Part of a $17 million United ...

Several local environmental nonprofits sent a letter to North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Jan. 11 outlining concerns about the proposed shipment of liquid nuclear waste from Ontario, Canada to the ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s U.S. senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, object to a federal proposal to transport more than 30 million gallons of liquid radioactive waste from the Hanford ...

Gov. Kotek, senators Wyden and Merkley say waste should be transformed into safer solid material before being moved from Hanford, Washington Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the state’s U.S. senators, Ron ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Mayor Lisa Brown is pushing back against plans to send untreated liquid waste from the Hanford Nuclear Site through Spokane, citing risks to residents and the environment. The City of ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown wrote a letter to multiple state and federal agencies opposing plans that could transport liquid radioactive waste through the city via trucks. According to ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - A plan to transport liquid, radioactive waste by traveling through Spokane via train or truck has stirred opposition from Mayor Lisa Brown and from City Council Members. The ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane's mayor is opposing the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) plan to transport liquid radioactive waste through the city. In a letter sent to the DOE on Thursday, Mayor Lisa ...