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    The pilot house bridge from the F/V Ethel May is pounded in the surf Monday February 6, the day after the boat sank near the mouth of Willapa Bay.
    March 19, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Crossing the perilous Willapa Bay bar holds a steep cost VIEW

    The fate of one fisherman in February was a brutal reminder of the perils of crossing the Willapa Bay bar, in an area where the...

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    Marshall Meyer, PE, PMP, engineering manager with the Lakewood Water District in Lakewood, heads out of a building where water is treated at a water treatment plant in Lakewood Thursday, November 3, 2022.  The plant is close by JBLM where PFAS firefighting foams were used for years and have caused increasing levels of PFAS pollution in recent years.   The water district has installed two major filtration systems at considerable cost  (ratepayers and state taxpayers) to purge the water of the PFAS measured in parts per trillion.   PFAS have impacted public water systems.   222058
    March 15, 2023 at 6:00 am

    PFAS taint drinking water systems in WA, and removing them could get expensive

    The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to regulate "forever chemicals" in drinking water could pose steep costs for public systems across Washington.

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    March 10, 2023 at 5:22 pm

    Chinook catches off Washington likely to bump up in 2023

    The sport fishery alternatives range from an overall catch quota of 32,500 to 42,500 Chinook for the area that encompasses Washington coastal waters.

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    The heat pump and line set outside the house. Michael O’Neill and his wife Katie Raser live in West Seattle in an older home and recently went through a heat pump installation that has not gone totally according to plan, photographed on Friday, February 3, 2023.
    March 6, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Should you get a heat pump? Know what you're getting into first VIEW

    Heat pumps are a key technology in the effort to move away from fossil fuels. There are some things you should know about how they...

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    The heat pump and line set outside the house. Michael O’Neill and his wife Katie Raser live in West Seattle in an older home and recently went through a heat pump installation that has not gone totally according to plan, photographed on Friday, February 3, 2023.
    March 6, 2023 at 6:00 am

    How to cut the cost of getting a heat pump by thousands of dollars

    New financial incentives are available for heat pump installations. Here are some that could help bring down costs.

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    A multi-unit apartment project goes up on Beacon Hill as high-density housing construction continues in Seattle, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022.  219487
    March 2, 2023 at 3:17 pm

    Lawsuit seeks to block state building code requirements for heat pumps

    A lawsuit filed this week seeks to block new building codes that require heat pumps to be installed in new construction.

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    This rendering shows a proposed nuclear power plant by Maryland-based X-energy that would produce electricity from four helium-cooled reactors. The first plant is proposed on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on land leased by Energy Northwest near the site of an unfinished nuclear reactor called Washington Public Power Supply System No. 1.
    March 1, 2023 at 5:14 pm

    Developer of next-generation nuclear power plants pulls plans for project in WA

    X-energy had planned to build its first nuclear reactor in Washington. It now is looking at the Gulf Coast.

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    Steam rolls out of a stack at the HF Sinclair Oil Refinery at March’s Point, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023 in Anacortes, Wash. 223116
    February 28, 2023 at 7:38 pm

    WA enters new era of putting a price on greenhouse-gas pollution

    WA held its first auction of carbon allowances Tuesday, marking a new era of putting a price on greenhouse-gas pollution.

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    Thursday, August 27, 2020    Pieces of rubber from Astroturf used in a retrofit of Electron Hydropower Project are found on the banks of the Puyallup River 14 miles down from the dam.
    February 27, 2023 at 4:57 pm

    Dam operator reaches criminal settlement over Puyallup River rubber spill

    In the settlement, which still requires approval of a Superior Court judge, Electron Hydro's chief operating officer pleaded guilty to a gross criminal misdemeanor.

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    A BNSF freight train carrying shipping containers on the Washington State side of the Columbia River east of Vancouver, WA.


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    February 24, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Lawmakers consider limits to length of freight trains moving through WA

    A bill that cleared the state House Transportation Committee on Thursday would limit the length of trains traveling through WA.

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