June 19, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Hanford Nuclear Reservation

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Is This Nuclear Plant Too Dangerous To Clean Up?

| Valerie Brown | Posted 05.09.2013 | Green

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By Valerie Brown, Scientific American: (click here for original article) The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million lit...

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Pink Slips, An Anniversary, And 50 Million Gallons Of Radioactive Sludge

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics

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When Travis Stephens first heard the word "sequestration," he thought it was nothing to worry about. "They said the sequestration -- they talked a...

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Tanks At Hanford Nuclear Reservation Could Explode

AP | By SHANNON DININNY | Posted 06.02.2013 | Green

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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Underground tanks that hold a stew of toxic, radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible r...

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Sequestration Layoffs Hit Workers At Nation's Most Contaminated Nuclear Cleanup Site

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics

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Terry Smith of West Richland, Wash., learned this week that he'll be losing his job in a few days thanks to federal budget cuts. "It stinks," Smith...

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Workers Lose Jobs As Pink Slips Go Out Due To Sequestration

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.20.2013 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- As Republican politicians insist that the Obama administration has "exaggerated" the effects of sequestration, people around the country...

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Workers At Nation's Most Contaminated Nuclear Site Fired Due To Sequestration

AP | SHANNON DININNY | Posted 05.18.2013 | Green

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YAKIMA, Wash. — Pink slips went out Monday to nearly 250 workers and more than 2,500 others were notified that they face furloughs of several we...

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Washington Governor: Nuclear Waste Cleanup Could Take Years

The Huffington Post | Nick Visser | Posted 03.08.2013 | Green

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The cleanup of radioactive waste leaking from storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation could take years, according to Washington Gov. Jay Insl...

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Budget Cuts Threaten Nuclear Site Cleanup

AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 05.05.2013 | Green

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OLYMPIA, Wash. — Federal officials say budget cuts may disrupt efforts to close the radioactive waste tanks currently leaking at Hanford Nuclear...

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Washington Governor: Budget Cuts Could Hamper Nuke Cleanup

Reuters | Posted 04.30.2013 | Green

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By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Washington state Governor Jay Inslee on Wednesday warned billions of dollars in automat...

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Washington Governor: 6 Underground Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 04.24.2013 | Green

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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leakin...

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Nation's Most Contaminated Nuclear Site Leaking Radioactive Waste

AP | SHANNON DININNY and MIKE BAKER | Posted 02.20.2013 | Green

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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The long-delayed cleanup of the nation's most contaminated nuclear site became the subject of more bad news Friday, when Washington ...

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Green News Report: March 29, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.29.2011 | Green

Read More: Co2, Epa, Arctic Ice Melt, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Nuclear, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Electricity, Radioactivity, Fossil Fuels, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Contamination, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Arctic, Toxic Chemicals, Japan Earthquake, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Toxic Waste, Japan, Russia, Fracking, United Nations, Clean Energy, Canada, Shipping, Chernobyl, Rising Sea Level, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Germany, California Air Resources Board, Green Party, Forests, Deforestation, Massey Energy, Dolphins, California, Texas, Superfund, Protests, Angela Merkel, Hydraulic Fracturing, China, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Fallout f...

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Green News Report: January 25, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Bp, Bees, Oil, Natural Gas, Wind Power, Co2, Cap and Trade, Pesticides, House of Representatives, Fracking, Australia, Gasland, Epa, Agriculture, Regulation, The Oscars, Green News Report, Biotech, Coal, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Pipeline, Offshore Drilling, Drought, Rising Sea Level, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Mountaintop Removal, Fossil Fuels, Colony Collapse Disorder, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, California Air Resources Board, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Usda, Global Warming Deniers, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Interior Department, California, White House Oil Spill Commission, Biofuels, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Texas, Subsidies, Toxic Chemicals, Superfund, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Cells, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Sustainability, Food, Fox News, Hydraulic Fracturing, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Upper Big Branch Mine, China, Green News

IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Getting "Gas"-y at the Oscars; Freakin' Frackin'; Natural disasters are expensive; Catastrophic flooding, drought around the world.

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Cold War Nuke Facility Found With 10x Lethal Limit Of Radiation

AP | SHANNON DININNY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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YAKIMA, Wash. — Workers cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site have discovered an area of soil so radioactive it exceeds lethal...

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Radioactive Rabbit Found In WA, Workers Hunt For Contaminated Droppings

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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RICHLAND, Wash. — A radioactive rabbit was trapped on the Hanford nuclear reservation, and Washington state health workers have been searching f...

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Radioactive Rabbit Poop Part Of Hanford Nuclear Reservation Cleanup (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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The Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state produced most of the plutonium our nation used from the the beginning of the atomic bomb through t...

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