The Department of Energy staff at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington now has had almost 50 people in a staff of about 300 laid off and more cuts may be coming. The reduction so far is ...

More than 100 people protested at John Dam Plaza as job cuts hit local federal workers and other policies sparked concern.

Murray said at a news conference Tuesday she’s concerned about the Trump administration’s dismissal of about 12 U.S. Department of Energy staffers and what effect that will have on safety at the site.

Spokespersons for Hanford did not respond to requests for comment on Saturday. The layoffs were among hundreds of others for Washington’s federal workers over the past week. The Trump ...

The US administration of President Donald Trump undertaking staff cuts at federal organisations including the Department of ...

Bechtel National earned an incentive payment of $14.2 million from the Department of Energy for its work on the Hanford nuclear site vitrification plant in Eastern Washington in 2024, receiving its ...

The U.S. Department of Energy picked roughly 400 people to lay off at the Bonneville Power Administration, which masterminds ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Washington Senator Patty Murray spoke out on Friday after “mass firings” from the Hanford site and the Bonneville Power Administration amid efforts by the Trump ...

Initial layoffs appeared to be workers who had been hired in the past one to ... EPA, along with the Washington state Department of Ecology, is a regulator of DOE at Hanford.

Layoffs at the Hanford site included safety engineers and scientists, Sen. Patty Murray said. Hundreds of other federal workers in the state lost their jobs too.