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Discusses how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered Teck Cominco, a company based in Vancouver, Canada, to clean the pollutants such as mercury, lead, and arsenic from the Columbia River and Lake Roosevelt in Washington State. Consideration of how slag from the company is leached in to the waterways; Refusal of Teck Cominco to comply with the U.S. environmental legislation; Views from Teck senior vice president Doug Horswill about how the EPA lacks jurisdiction in Canada.

Reports on the fined given by Washington state Department of Ecology to CleanCare Corp. for discharge of oily waste into the Commencement Bay. Amount of penalty; Details on violations of the company.

Focuses on an agreement which prevents the filing of a lawsuit on the cleanup of tanks at the United States Department of Energy's facility in Hanford, Washington. Commitment to a timetable of cleanup priorities; Transfer of radioactive wastes to doubleshell tanks.