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The U.S. Department of Defense quietly changed its timeline for cleaning up toxic forever chemicals contaminating groundwater at Fairchild Airforce Base and Portland's Air National Guard Base, delaying the process by six years without public announcement.

Extreme drought is currently most prevalent in western Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana

The Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region Headquarters would be closed and the Pacific Northwest Research Station would be moved to Fort Collins, Colorado

In an order issued Thursday, the president said he would withdraw the U.S. from a 2023 deal made with tribes and environmentalists to end lawsuits over fish losses.

The nations were trying to finalize updates to the 61-year-old Columbia River Treaty governing shared, cross-border water and hydropower management

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week denied petitions to reevaluate the project that delivers gas from Canada to the Northwest and northern California