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Contents on this page were published in the April/May, 1994 edition of the Washington Free Press.
WFP, 1463 E. Republican #178, Seattle, WA -USA, 98112. -- WAfreepress@gmail.com
Copyright © 1994 WFP Collective, Inc.
HOW HUMANS TREAT
THEIR SURROUNDINGS,
EACH OTHER, THEMSELVES
The Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Committee begins public hearings to discuss low-level radioactive waste disposal (206) 407-7107 ...
The Port of Shelton has been granted $112,500 to help with cleanup of the Certified Aerospace site at Sanderson Field, where soils and groundwater are contaminated with chromium and trichloroethane, the results of illegal discharges of hazardous wastes ...
The State Pollution Control Hearings Board has upheld a $367,000 fine against Washington Chemical Co., a Spokane hazardous waste recycling firm, for violations of state and federal hazardous waste laws. The penalty was the largest Dept. of Ecology fine ever approved by the Board ...
A potentially harmful discharge of contaminated water was found at the L-Bar site in Chewelah; stormwater runoff and groundwater contaminated by residue from production of magnesium granules and fertilizer were found collected in a drainage ditch that empties into the Colville River. NW Alloys Inc. of Addy is one of the potentially responsible parties ...
Darigold Inc. of Lynden has been penalized $30,000 by the Dept. of Ecology for 30 water quality violations during the past two years ...
In the past nine months, more than 3,000 gallons of contaminated used oil in Seattle and Everett has had to be incinerated at a cost of $8,000 in hard-earned taxpayer dollars ...
You can get a "Be Green" sticker for your car's bumper sticker from Annie's Macaroni & Cheese (available at Larry's Market and PCC) ...
Talk about menstruation, the environment and our culture at a presentation by the Women's Environmental Network on April 21 (726-0300 for more info) ...
Get info on state environmental enforcement actions from 1990 through 1993 in the Fiscal Year 1993 Enforcement Report (Publication 94-20) by calling (206) 407-6968. Of the 400 yearly formal enforcement actions, 40% are civil penalties ...
The U.S. EPA's long-awaited dioxin health risk reassessment confirms that cancer risks associated with dioxin exposure are at least as great as expected and, for the first time, emphasizes serious new concerns regarding non-cancer effects of dioxin exposure ...
Bradley Brown of Wenatchee was sentenced in federal court to spend a year and a day in prison and fined $5,000 after pleading guilty to illegally disposing of PCBs generated by illegal removal and disposal of asbestos and PCB fluid from the former Deaconess Hospital ...
The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is applying for a wastewater discharge permit to flush the treated radioactive wastewater from Hanford ...
Oh, and one more thing ... Earth Day is April 22.
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