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Environmental Law in Washington State

Paul Hirsch, Location:Washington State. An environmental attorney licensed in the State of Washington, I am also a geomorphologist with an abiding interest in land and water, and how these react to human use and development.

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Yakima Herald-Republic Not So Happy With the Feds' Efforts at Hanford

Posted on June 27, 2007
The editorial board of the Yakima Herald-Republic yesterday unloaded on the US Department of Energy for cost escalations and delays associated with the clean up at the Hanford Site. Hard not to feel some sympathy for the editors' point of view. On the other hand, no one seems to know how to do a clean up of this magnitude and complexity...

I wonder if Billy Clapp saw this coming?

Posted on June 24, 2007
Billy Clapp was an Ephrata lawyer and, along with Rufus Woods, one of the driving forces behind the making of the Grand Coulee Dam. His hopes for industrial development in his region were disappointed when the Feds established the BPA to export the power out of the immediate area at postage-stamp rates, i...

Oregon Oasis Bill Passed in State House: Update -- Governor Threatens Veto

Posted on June 22, 2007
The Oregonian reports that "Governor Ted Kulongoski threatened Friday to veto a bill that would allow eastern Oregon to draw more water from the Columbia River. "Kulongoski's note to Senate President Peter Courtney -- one of only a few veto threats issued session -- called House Bill 3525 'a gross violation' of an obligation to Oregon's neighboring states to not reduce river flows...

"State, feds enter negotiations over Hanford cleanup"

Posted on May 30, 2007
KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington "RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - Federal and state officials entered formal negotiations Wednesday over long-stalled projects to clean up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, including an over-budget plant to treat highly radioactive waste, and the retrieval of that waste from underground tanks...

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Too Many LAMIRDS, Not Enough Farm Land in Thurston County?

Posted on May 09, 2007
Keri Brenner, writing in the The Olympian, reports on the efforts by Thurston County to come into compliance with a 2005 decision by the Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board that found the county's Comprehensive Plan created too many LAMIRDS (Limited Areas of More Intense Rural Development) and had established criteria for the designation of agricultural lands that did not protect enough resource lands...

Zoning Issues in Kittitas County

Posted on May 07, 2007
Although, according to Darryl Piercy, director of the county Community Development Services Department, over 96% of Kittitas County is zoned to require 20 acres or more for a home to be built, litigation and controversy is accompanying the county's efforts to allow land outside of urban areas to be zoned to allow one home on three acres...

Ninth Circuit Affirms District Court's Rejection of NOAA Fisheries 2004 Biological Opinion

Posted on April 11, 2007
Ninth Circuit Opinion In the latest decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the ongoing salmon wars, the Court affirmed District Judge Redden's holding below that there were several structural flaws with the 2004 Biological Opinion?s jeopardy analysis, as well as defects in the Biological Opinion's analysis of impacts on critical habitat, and thus it does not not meet the mandates the Endangered Species Act (ESA)...

Hanford: Single-Shell Tank S-112 Emptied

Posted on April 07, 2007
Tri-City Herald -- By Annette Cary "Hanford workers have finished emptying radioactive waste from an underground tank that posed one of the greatest risks to the Columbia River, according to CH2M Hill Hanford Group. When work started to retrieve solid waste from Tank S-112 in fall 2003, it held 614,000 gallons...

GMA: When is Agricultural Land Not Agricultural Land?

Posted on April 07, 2007
Yakima Herald Republic Online - By DAVID LESTER "Yakima County and a rural property owner have won a third court decision in a longstanding dispute over changing farm land to a use that allows housing. A Yakima County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that the county acted properly when it approved a 2001 rezone for almost 1,100 acres on Naches-Wenas Road, northeast of Naches...

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