Elizabeth Glenn knew her breast cancer diagnosis could shatter her dream of one day becoming a mother. She also knew the decision to preserve her fertility would be costly and taxing, but if she froze her eggs, she'd be getting ahead of years of cancer hormone treatments. Over a year later, Glenn, 33, is facing a new dilemma: Should she and ...
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Nikki Kuhnhausen. Brent Wood. Mac Ohana. Natalie Nguyen. Rikkey Outumuro. Summer Taylor. Zoella Rose Martinez. Aja Raquell Rhone-Spears. Chloe Sagal. Colin Smith. Gigi Pierce. Jessi Hart. Kenna Leigh Gillock. Loni Kai Okaruru. Oliver Taylor. Rani Baker. Serena Brenneman. Titi Gulley. These are the names of the 18 transgender people from Washington and Oregon who have died due to transphobia and hate ...
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If there were a law against doctors using their own sperm to inseminate their fertility patients, 33-year-old Brianna Hayes said it’s possible she might have lived a different life. Hayes was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 4 years old. Then Epstein-Barr virus. Then hip dysplasia. In total, she said, she went through five hip surgeries and had to learn how to ...
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Olympia, WA – Governor Jay Inslee signed a new law (SB 5144) May 11, 2023 that will provide battery recycling across Washington under a producer responsibility program. The bill came to him with strong bipartisan support with the Senate voting 42-6 and the House 57-40.
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Fires at waste and recycling facilities continued to be a problem in 2022, with at least 390 incidents reported by the media in the United States and Canada, according to data from Fire Rover, a fire suppression system company. During a recent webinar hosted by the National Waste & Recycling Association, Ryan Fogelman, a partner at Fire Rover, said that number ...
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A Washington State House committee advanced legislation on Tuesday that would protect job applicants in the state from being discriminated against for using marijuana. The bill, which already passed the full Senate last month, would forbid most employers from rejecting applicants simply for testing positive for cannabis on pre-employment drug tests. Workers could still be fired for a positive marijuana test ...
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WASHINGTON — A bill that stops many employers in Washington state from discriminating against job applicants for using cannabis outside of work has passed the Senate. If it passes the house and is signed into law, many employers in the state won’t be able to drug test job applicants for cannabis.
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Batteries power all kinds of consumer goods, and their use is rapidly expanding. Seattle plans to ban gas-powered leaf blowers in favor of clean fuel devices. By 2035, all new cars sold in Washington will be electric.
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Washington lawmakers are considering a brand-new type of cannabis market: resale of the plant waste. Cannabis growers must currently dispose of any spent stalks and stems, or flowers that didn't pass testing. By state law, it has to be disposed of as dangerous waste, due to the material's possibly intoxicating effects. But a bill in the Legislature would allow growers to sell ...
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Fair Repair Act (HB 1392) passed through a House Committee in Olympia Wednesday, with a seven to six vote. The act would require consumer electronics companies to share the instructions and tools to fix their products with the public.
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