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| 8/3/2004 | |
| SEATTLE—In recent U.S. EPA tests of fish caught in Washington lakes, every fish sample tested was contaminated with mercury and 29 percent contained mercury levels that exceed EPA's "safe" limit for women of childbearing age, according to an analysis of EPA data released today by the Washington Public Interest Research Group (WashPIRG). The EPA data shows that even fish in lakes far from industrialized areas have become contaminated with health-threatening mercury. | |
| 6/30/2005 | |
| SEATTLE– A report released today by the Washington Public Interest Research Group (WashPIRG) found that many companies that violated water quality regulations in Washington in 2003 received no fines or notification that they had broken the law. The report, “Take Back Washington’s Waters: The Failure of the Clean Water Act in Washington and What We Can Do About It”, also found that one-fifth of the permitted facilities in Washington are operating under outdated, expired water pollution permits. | |
| 5/6/2004 | |
| Metaline Falls, Washington—Despite the availability of mining technologies that better protect human health and clean water, the Department of Ecology issued a permit to Teck Cominco mining company, allowing it to dump toxic pollutants harmful to human health and clean water directly into the Pend Oreille River in northeastern Washington state. | |
| 12/11/2003 | |
| SEATTLE—Environmental and community groups across the state celebrated today as the EPA ordered mining giant Teck Cominco to move forward with necessary studies of its heavy metal contamination in the Upper Columbia. | |
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