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A day-long meeting of a task force tracking a federal agencys wind farm plans along the Oregon coast is done after its afternoon became a long public comment session far beyond the half-hour planned.

Originally published on April 29, 2021 2:25 pm At Hanford, a hazardous concoction of radioactive waste and chemicals sits in World War II and Cold War-era tanks. Now one of those old tanks has a serious leak. CREDIT: Anna King/N3 READ ON BY ANNA KING / N3 & NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS / AP At Hanford, a hazardous concoction of radioactive waste and chemicals sits in World War II and Cold War-era tanks. Now one of those old tanks has a serious leak. The U.S. Department of Energy which manages Hanford...

ANNA KING/NW NEWS NETWORK Originally published on January 19, 2021 5:36 pm As President Donald Trump prepared to leave office, his Department of Energy was celebrating that a new analytical lab was “ready to operate” at the Hanford Site in southeast Washington. The lab, being largely constructed by DOE contractor Bechtel National, Inc. is part of a low-level radioactive waste treatment facility meant to make glass logs out of the hazardous goo. In what’s become a normal part of every...