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July 10, 2025
Washougal starts new trash pickup program
The city of Washougal is launching a volunteer program designed to reduce litter, beautify neighborhoods and strengthen community pride, one bucket of trash at a time.
The city of Washougal is launching a volunteer program designed to reduce litter, beautify neighborhoods and strengthen community pride, one bucket of trash at a time.
A new report from Environmental Integrity Project — a national watchdog group founded by Eric Schaffer, former director of the Environmental Protection Agency — claims some paper mills could be generating up to three times more greenhouse gas emissions than reported.
One large-scale water quality project is set to begin in Washougal while another is in the early design stages.
A group of Clark County residents suing the city of Camas over a proposed gas station development near Union High School will soon have their day in court.
Since 1996, scientists, researchers, staff and volunteers at Mount St. Helens Institute have been working to educate students and visitors about the mountain’s unique volcanic landscape. Despite recent staffing and budget cuts at the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees management and operations of the national monument, the institute remains committed to providing educational resources to visitors.
To meet increased water demand during the summer months, the city of Camas plans to bring Well 13 back online this week, even though it has the city’s highest levels of toxic “forever chemicals.”
A proposed change to the Endangered Species Act has local environmental groups worried.
Most Clark County residents have curbside recycling available. A new bill passed by the Washington Legislature this session could spell changes, and higher costs, for local residents.
When the Washington House and Senate stripped all funding for the Columbia River Gorge Commission from their proposed budgets during heated negotiations at the end of March, the future looked bleak for the bistate agency. But on Monday, the agency learned that its funding had been restored — or at least some of it.
Plan aims to protect shoreline environment, promote water-oriented development and increase public access and recreational opportunities