Federal appeals panel says Washington state can protect Hanford workers
RICHLANDreservation easier access to health benefits if they become ill at work. Wednesday's decision by a panel of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals...
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Read about the Hanford site and the cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, near Richland, Wash., which is engaged in a massive cleanup following decades of plutonium production for nuclear weapons.
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Sen. Murray, Rep. Smith seek expanded benefits for Hanford workers provided faulty respirators
The new legislation was spurred by a Seattle Times investigation that revealed 560 workers were supplied with faulty respirators at Hanford.
In response to a Seattle Times investigation, advocates seek benefits for workers who wore leaky respirators at Hanford
Responding to a Seattle Times investigation, a federal advocacy group is pushing for federal disability payments for Hanford workers potentially sickened by faulty respirators.
Hanford workers were given leaky respirators at contaminated job site, contractor’s documents reveal WATCH
Bill Evans Jr. was one of some 560 workers who used flawed respiratory protection in the clean-up of Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant. Did that safety...
Feds: Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant is demolished
After 40 years of operations, and 20 years of often-dangerous cleanup work, crews recently finished demolishing the Plutonium Finishing Plant’s main processing facility at the...
Washington state fines feds more than $1 million over Hanford cleanup documents
State regulators say restricting access to documents undermines an extra set of eyes on Hanford that helps keep workers safe, informs the public and prevents...
‘Ground zero’ for whistleblowing? Not D.C., but a hazardous waste site in Washington state.
Author Tom Mueller and Hanford whistleblower Donna Busche will appear Wednesday evening at Elliott Bay Book Company. His book includes an examination of decades of...
Deliberately contaminating groundwater at Hanford. Is it the key to faster cleanup?
It's part of a test project to see if driving chromium that's already contaminating the soil deeper down to the groundwater would speed cleanup of...
New Trump administration rule intensifies clash over future of Hanford cleanup
The Trump Administration on Wednesday finalized a controversial rule to change the federal definition of high-level radioactive wastes, a move that intensifies a clash with...
Washington state, pushing Trump administration, wants more say in Hanford cleanup
Ecology Director Maia Bellon, in a letter to the federal Energy Department, warns of a return to court litigation should the Trump administration opt out...
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