Environmental advocates say the previous 2020 study was flawed, and a revision would help restore and prevent extinction of ...

This Teck Metals Ltd. smelter in Trail, B.C., sits on a hill above the Columbia River in 2003, a few miles north of the Washington border. The company dumped heavy metals into the Columbia River ...

The Columbia ... the Columbia River’s deepwater ports each year. (Barton noted that would only be for a few days those years.) On the other end of the spectrum, the need to draw down reservoirs ...

SEATTLE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Friday that it has added the Upper Columbia River Site in northeast Washington to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL).

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, Jim and Birte ...

UPPER COLUMBIA RIVER, Wash. – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is focusing on cleanup efforts along several areas of the Upper Columbia River. The EPA has officially designated spots ...

Average salmon and steelhead counts in the Columbia River Basin over the last decade are still well below officials’ goal of 5 million fish per year. From 2014 to 2023, just 2.3 million salmon ...

Dec. 13—Federal officials on Friday declared portions of the Upper Columbia River a Superfund site after decades of studying, debating and litigating over the pollution that primarily washed ...

Why Does the Columbia River Basin Need This Program? “Northern pikeminnow are voracious predators,” explained John Hone, a fish biologist. “Reducing their numbers has a direct impact on ...

Washington State has a brand-new Superfund site: the Upper Columbia River. It’s the latest development in the federal government's attempts to force a Canadian company to pay for pollution that ...

Nicola Sturgeon says she knows "nothing more" about the police investigation into the SNP's funding and finances, 18 months after she was arrested and released without charge. The former first ...