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Down To Earth archive for May 17, 2011

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011

The Spokane Riverkeeper responds to Ecology's PCB study

From the Riverkeeper: Today the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) released a study on PCBs in the Spokane River that concludes that, “significant reductions in polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) levels have occurred over the last two decades but concentrations still don’t meet state and Spokane…

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Democracy hijacked and how to fix it 

How do we stop the corporate takeover of America? "Democracy hijacked and how to fix it," a forum on Saturday at the Uniterian Universalist, hopes to solve this riddle. Dr. Riki Ott, author of Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the…

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Tuesday Video: What do transit cuts mean to you?

What do transit cuts mean to you? Profile #1: Working Mother from Transportation for Washington on Vimeo. This is Transit For Washington's first video in their "Transit Cut Profile" series to highlight the real impacts of service reductions. In this video, Judy Gilbert of Lakewood,…

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