Justice for Downwinder Communities in Washington

Justice for Downwinder Communities in Washington

Just over a three-hour drive from Seattle, at the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers in Washington State, a decommissioned Manhattan Project plutonium production facility abuts neighborhoods and homes. Community members in Richland, WA, and surrounding towns have been—and likely still are—exposed to hazardous contamination from the US government’s Hanford nuclear site. They haven’t gotten justice for their suffering, and many people ar…