June 2nd, 2011 by Bill Lascher Letters sent as part of the licensing process reveal the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had multiple questions for Energy Northwest about the assumptions it used to develop its response plan for potential accidents. Among the questions: Why did Energy Northwest continue to use 15-year-old studies as the basis for earthquake preparations at the Columbia Generating Station — the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear reactor — when much more up-to-date information about the region’s seismic profile were available from the USGS and Hanford itself?
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March 22nd, 2011 by Bill Lascher
June 11th, 2010 by Bill Lascher Will following the footsteps of Melville Jacoby, a World War II correspondent and my grandmother’s cousin, help me cover the gulf oil spill?
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April 1st, 2010 by Bill Lascher Yesterday afternoon President Obama shocked the country when he announced plans to open parts of the Atlantic and Alaskan coasts to oil drilling. Though the Pacific Coast was left untouched, the move could open up huge expanses of ocean elsewhere.
Many environmentalists treated the news as a betrayal and yet another delay in
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November 25th, 2009 by Bill Lascher Finding Community | Stopping to Breathe | False divisions | Continuing the discussion | Other Voices
I arrived in Los Angeles late Monday afternoon. As I landed, I watched the sunset turn the Santa Monica Mountains that golden hue they turn in late fall, caught glimpses of the skyscrapers
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October 21st, 2009 by Bill Lascher What are you doing this Saturday?
Perhaps you’re taking a stand to help slow climate change by participating in one of more than 4,000 actions in 170 countries being organized by 350.org. The number, as the organization will tell you, represents the parts per million of carbon dioxide thought to be
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September 1st, 2009 by Bill Lascher  “Two firefighters die.”
Each thick black letter blazes through the scratchy grime of the plexiglass newspaper rack. They ignite my attention. They singe my mind even after I pass, as I board a 754 Rapid at Wilshire and Vermont and as I disembark
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