(Art by Valerie Osier)
The Washington State Department of Ecology has declared that both the city of Spokane and Spokane County are on the hook for cleaning up the toxic “forever chemicals” contamination stemming from firefighting drills at the Spokane International Airport (SIA).
The state in 2023 had named SIA as responsible for cleaning up the PFAS contamination that had leached from its tarmacs into local groundwater for hundreds of homes on the West Plains…