Courtney Flatt
Stories
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School Districts Explore Solutions For Too Many Portable Classrooms
SPOKANE, Washington — Teachers at Spokane’s Jefferson Elementary don’t have to look far to know what they left behind.
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Saving The Greater Sage Grouse
It’s early in the morning, hours before sunrise. An old pickup truck turns down a dirt road at Swanson Lakes Wildlife Area in Eastern Washington, about...
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What Does The Plymouth Explosion Mean For LNG Proposals?
People opposed to exporting liquefied natural gas in Oregon say Monday’s explosion along the Columbia River points out safety problems at these types...
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Fish-Eating Birds To Be Killed At 5 Dams
Operators of five dams on the Columbia and lower Snake rivers will start killing birds that eat migrating juvenile salmon.
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Puget Sound Tidal Energy Project Approved By Feds
Puget Sound tides may soon be generating power. A proposal for the world’s first grid-connected tidal energy project received a federal license Thursday. The project has been almost eight years in the making.
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Stopping A Stink Bug Invasion
You have to go through three airlocked doors to get to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s stink bug research lab. The quarantined, closet-sized room...
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Who Finds You When You Wander Off The Hiking Trail?
If you’re out one day hunting or wander off a hiking trail, a select group of volunteers may come to look for you. K-9 search and rescue teams spend...
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What Does Climate Change Mean For Ice Climbing?
High up in Washington’s Blue Mountains, behind trees and across the Touchet River, is what locals call the Weeping Wall. Water seeps through the...
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More Coal, More Oil Means More Trains
Train traffic will dramatically increase in the Pacific Northwest, if proposed coal export terminals and crude oil terminals are built. That’s the...
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Energy Storage Battery Heads To The Market
Clarification 2/6/2014: An earlier version of this report described the storage capacity of a 100-megawatt battery system that has since been disputed...