Eight years after Washington passed a law to help workers sickened cleaning up the Hanford nuclear site, the Department of Energy has spent nearly $12 million and filed more than 500 appeals fighting benefits for workers and survivors, according to a ProPublica and Cascade PBS investigation. OPB
opbNuclear weapons waste made workers sick. Despite a law meant to help, the DOE keeps fighting their claimsA 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site. Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to deny them benefits.
When a state law and a federal agency collide like this, which should have the last word on workers' compensation?
