Environmental groups, the state of Washington and tribes are holding the US Navy accountable for dumping toxic copper into Puget Sound. Scraping of the hull of a decommissioned aircraft carrier dumped tons of paint into Sinclair Inlet, which could impact salmon and other sea life.
Photographer Dan Hawkins and former Washington poet laureate Kathleen Flenniken witness the toxic legacy of nuclear sites in Washington: Hawkins' obsolete process involving uranium gives his images a reddish tint; two poems from Flenniken's collection Plume shed light on radioactivity lingering in the Columbia River.
