Locus Focus

Late this past winter, the Army Corps of Engineers spilled about 474 gallons

of turbine oil into the Columbia River at The Dalles Dam. This is not the

first time that dam turbine oil has spilled into the river. Oil spills occur

on a routine basis at Columbia and Snake river...

In the struggle to prevent massive fossil fuel projects from transforming

Northwest communities into centers for oil, coal and fracked gas facilities,

proponents of these projects claim these terminals, refineries and production

facilities will create much needed jobs. Whil...

Port Westward, owned and operated by the Port of St. Helens, is ground zero

for a string of controversial fossil fuel developments, including fracked

gas, coal, and oil terminals. The Port recently announced plans to renew a

lease option with Northwest Innovation Works to b...

Participatory Budgeting is one of the fastest-growing municipal democratic

reforms in the world. It began in Brazil in the late 1980s and has since

spread to cities across the globe. But what is Participatory Budgeting, how

does it work, and how is it different from other f...

This program originally aired on January 15, 2018.

 

Donald Trump is targeting the Pacific Northwest for accelerated fossil fuel

development. He brought the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay back from

the dead, designating it as the highest priority site for LNG develop...

Tacoma, Washington is one of the few cities in the Northwest where there is a

long legacy of heavy industrial contamination. The fossil fuel industry plays

a big role in the local economy, but Tacoma residents have also begun to

fight back against further fossil fuel develo...

When Scott Freeman and his family decided to transform a damaged creek in

Washington’s Olympic Peninsula from a drainage ditch back into a stream

that could again nurture salmon, they knew the task would be formidable and

the rewards plentiful. In Saving Tarboo Creek, Scott...

In 2016 while on the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump alarmed

leaders throughout the world when he said during a Town Hall, that there are

several scenarios in which nuclear weapons should be employed by the U.S.,

including against ISIS. "Somebody hits us within ...

Before oil and coal project proposals started popping up in communities

across the Pacific Northwest, plans to build Liquid Natural Gas (LNG)

terminals were emerging along the coastline from Oregon to British

Columbia. And now that nearly every proposed oil and coal termina...

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along the Columbia River in eastern

Washington, is the most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere.

Clean up of its innumerous leaking tanks and unlined pits of radioactive

waste has been moving at a glacial pace for forty years...