Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• BPA offers reward in Weflen’s disappearance

  March 16, 2012 in City SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Bonneville Power Administration is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information that helps convict anyone involved in the 1987 disappearance of a worker … 2

• Do Your Part: Seven tips to ‘Detox Your Life’

  January 9, 2012 in Features on Page C1 Do Your Part is kicking off a year of green challenges. January is “Detox Your Life” month. We’re finding and eliminating chemicals that could be polluting your home and your … 3

• Detectives retrieve belongings from Weflen’s locker

  November 22, 2011 in City Sheriff’s detectives aren’t saying what they found in a locker belonging to a Bonneville Power Administration employee who’s been missing since 1987. 25

• Do Your Part: Five ways to limit exposure to BPA

  August 29, 2011 in Features on Page C1 What are the chances that you are buying and bringing BPA right into your own home? Probably pretty good, and there is reason to be concerned. BPA – or bisphenol-A …

• Pole spared for birds

  July 25, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C9 Heavy equipment operators could sometimes be accused of being on a power trip when they’re maintaining the huge transmission lines that traverse wildlife habitat in this region. But neighbors say …

• Wash. Legislature OKs ban on BPA in baby bottles

  March 8, 2010 in City OLYMPIA — Washington state’s Legislature has approved a statewide ban on the chemical bisphenol A in baby bottles and other containers. 2

• Wash. House passes bill to ban BPA in baby bottles

  January 25, 2010 in City The Washington state House has approved a bill that would ban the chemical bisphenol A from baby bottles and other food and drink containers.

• Study links plastics chemical to male sexual dysfunction

  November 11, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Exposure to high levels of a controversial chemical found in thousands of everyday plastic products appears to cause erectile dysfunction and other sexual problems in men, according to … 1

• Wash. bill would ban chemical in baby bottles

  January 16, 2009 SEATTLE — Katharine Bond doesn’t buy baby bottles, sippy cups or other items that contain a controversial chemical because of concerns that it could harm her baby. The federal government …

• WSU scientist recalls breakthrough

  April 27, 2008 in City on Page B1 Ten years ago, Patricia Hunt and her colleagues were studying eggs from mice, part of ongoing research into pregnancy failure. “All of a sudden our data went completely bonkers,” she …