The U.S. Department of Energy is responding to areportthat the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the Vitrification ...

The 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear site has 56 million gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste in underground ...

Halting Hanford waste treatment would be “a stunning waste of resources, a violation of multiple legal agreements and a slap in the face to the workers who have brought us to this point,” Ferguson ...

RICHLAND, Wash. Political leaders in Washington state are expressing concern and support for the continuation of a multi-billion dollar project aimed at ...

The Department of Energy and Washington state have reached an agreement on steps to address radioactive waste suspected of leaking into the ground from a third storage tank at the Hanford nuclear site ...

Some 2,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste that had been stored in underground tanks has been shipped off the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for disposal after it is ...

State scientists say federal draft report justifying environmental rollbacks is riddled with errors, from sea ice data to ...

Washington state's attorney general has joined 20 other Democrat states in a lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump's executive order that calls to dismantle the Department of Education. The ...