Some of the 18 housing bills Republicans have backed are moving through the legislative process. Others will likely be dead by the end of this week when the first major deadline for bills to pass out of committee comes.
U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse said Tuesday he told the Trump administration “there should be a more nuanced approach to terminations and furloughs,” referring to cuts at Bonneville as well as the Hanford nuclear cleanup site and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
State Sen. Matt Boehnke, along with state Reps. April Connors and Stephanie Barnard, are asking their constituents to save the date for their first town hall meeting of 2025.
Requested by the Department of Ecology, the agency would issue standards that match those published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “as it existed on January 1, 2025,” according to the bill.
A PNNL team designed the new system to require significantly less starting material while delivering results equal to the standard lab-scale test systems, all with the intent to speed the time to discovery of new grid energy storage technology.
The commercial builder, which maintains offices in Kennewick, was among several construction companies recognized in the annual awards of the Inland Northwest chapter of the Association of General Contractors.
Federal lawmakers from Washington state and Oregon have criticized the layoffs, saying they are going to cripple cleanup efforts at the nation’s largest nuclear contaminated site and a power grid that supplies power to multiple states and hundreds of thousands of consumers.
