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• Disappointing. That’s the general sentiment surrounding the Aug. 31 letters from Gov. Bob Ferguson’s office to Washington Fish and Wildlife Commissioners Lorna Smith and Melanie Rowland, following a months-long independent investigation into their conduct. Disappointing to the hunting groups that petitioned the governor to dismiss Smith and Rowland from the commission, because the letters do not dismiss them. Disappointing to the conservation groups that support Smith and Rowland because, even

  16 September 2026 · Columbia Insight · $0 – $99 · 3K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

• This is how data centers kill farms in the PNW. This month, Columbia Insight video producer Deborah Bloom visited an historic Hillsboro farm holding out against “Data Center Alley” and filed this powerful report on how data centers impact farmers and the land. Since its founding in the 1840s in the Tualatin River Basin west of Portland, Hillsboro, Ore., has been one of the most productive agricultural hubs in the state. Since the 1951 arrival of Tektronix, which manufactured oscilloscopes a

  12 September 2026 · Columbia Insight · $0 – $99 · 2K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• A uranium enrichment plant is expected to begin operations at the Hanford nuclear reservation in roughly two years. However, it appears that either no officials in Washington know much of anything about it, or are willing to talk. Unknown details include the amounts of uranium to be enriched, the exact enrichment process, what types of wastes will be produced and how those wastes will be dealt with. Other unknowns include almost anything to do with budgets and finances, what environmental stud

  7 June 2026 · Columbia Insight · $0 – $99 · 3K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

• Around tribal lands the effects of the proliferation of water- and energy-sucking data centers take on a unique dimension—the desecration of cultural sites, potential harm to traditional food sources and a painful continuation of government policies that ignore the needs and voices of Tribes. Hundreds of people are gathered on a windy plateau near Goldendale, Wash. Almost 2,000 feet below, the John Day River flows into the Columbia River. With the snow-covered prominence of Mount Adams looming

  30 May 2026 · Columbia Insight · $0 – $99 · 4K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

• Financially struggling orchardists face an insect that covers trees in goo and ruins fruit. At meeting of the Hood River County Commissioners on April 20, Lesley Tamura, an Oregon pear orchardist and board chair of Columbia Gorge Fruit Growers, asked commissioners to declare a countywide emergency related to a pest that hit the valley’s pear crop hard last season. Tamura told commissioners that pear growers in the Columbia River Gorge expect to lose $40 to $45 million due to a particularly ba

  5 May 2026 · Columbia Insight · $0 – $99 · 1K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library