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Farms in Western Washington evacuate during record river flooding

Many rivers in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties flooded Tuesday due to heavy rain and melting snow from the mountains. Forecasters say the atmospheric river drenching the Pacific Northwest should start to ease on Wednesday.
- Casey Martin
Can anything stop the toxic smog of New Delhi?

It's, considered the world's most polluted megacity. The air is so bad that a new report estimates that on average each resident loses 12 years of life. Here's what they're doing about it.
- Ilma Hasan
Quinault Tribe builds new village site away from rising seas

Construction crews have installed streets, sidewalks, and utilities for a neighborhood of 59 homes out of reach of ocean waves.
- John Ryan
Atmospheric river hits Western Washington with high winds, heavy rain, and possible flooding

Forecasters expect up to 3 inches of rain in the lowlands by Wednesday, wind gusts of up to 45 miles per hour north of Seattle, possible avalanches in the mountains, and potential flooding along rivers.
- Katie Campbell
EPA aims to slash the oil industry's climate-warming methane pollution

New EPA rules require oil and gas companies to slash climate-changing methane from their operations.
- Jeff Brady
Okanagan River salmon eyed for endangered-species protection

A fisheries agency is asking for public input on whether to list a salmon from the Columbia River Basin as an endangered species.
- John Ryan
The North Cascades Highway goes wild for the winter

A rare, yet annual, event took place Thursday night in Washington’s North Cascades. A roadless area roughly doubled in size.
- John Ryan
The iceberg cometh: It's the size of Oahu, and it's moving into the open ocean

"It's a trillion tons of ice," as one expert told NPR. Now the largest iceberg in the world, A23a, is on the move after decades of being grounded on the seafloor.
- Bill Chappell
New homes in Washington state will have to include energy efficient heating and cooling

In Washington state, new buildings could soon become a lot more energy efficient. This week, the Washington State Building Code Council voted to require heat pumps in new homes, by raising efficiency standards so that only heat pumps can satisfy them. To withstand legal threats, the group chose a path that discourages gas appliances without outlawing them.
- Joshua McNichols
Biden administration proposes strictest lead pipe rules in more than three decades

Most cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency aimed to prevent like the ones in Flint, Mich. and Washington, D.C.
- The Associated Press

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