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•Spokane’s toxic bronco (8/29/26)
•The urgencies of “No Name Ditch” (7/26/26)
•Letter from the PFAS plains (6/17/26)
•The mayor writes back (5/14/26)
•Navigate this…(5/11/26
•Fasten seat belts (4/28/26)
•The Peril on the Plains (11/25/25)
•The shapes of the poison (11/5/25)
•Al French in the PFAS corn maze (10/22/24)
• Democracy at the gates (9/19/24)
• How the threat of the Spokane airport’s groundwater contamination is coming into focus (9/10/24)
•The cracks in Al French’s looking glass (9/06/24)
•A push for action and accountability from Al French’s latest challenger, (6/13/24)
•Al French in the lion’s den (6/4/24)
•Standing-room-only triage on West Plains water pollution (5/24/24)
•The Spokane airport (finally) hands its shoes to state regulators (5/10/24)
•Updated field notes from the toxic water storms on the West Plains (5/5/24)
•A major milestone on the West Plains (2/21/24)
•Ecology gives the Spokane airport one more try… (2/15/24)
•From Victims to Victories (2/11/24)
•VIDEO DOCUMENTARY: Troubled Waters, PFAS on Spokane’s West Plains. (1/15/24)
•Al French and the “forever chemical” cover-up, (12/23/23)
•A progress report on the West Plains “forever chemical” investigation, (12/10/23)
•What a Seattle Times investigation reveals about the poisoned groundwater west of Spokane (10/31/23)
•The Spokane Airport’s word bomb response to disclosure of its PFAS contamination problem (10/13/23)
•The state’s wake-up call for Spokane International Airport’s water pollution problem (8/23/23)
•The trouble Spokane’s airport may face for not disclosing its contaminated groundwater problem (8/15/23)
•Rough Landing (7/09/23)
•Robert Bilott, and “Exposure,” the story of a historic civil suit against DuPont for PFAS contamination. (06/27/23)
•A primer on the notorious, synthetic chemical that contaminates drinking water from coast to coast. (06/22/23)
•Scoping the “forever chemical” story on the West Plains (6/04/23)