Nuclear waste made workers sick. Despite a law meant to help, the DOE keeps fighting their claims.

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Sustainability Desk, a project of the Local Reporting Network, in partnership with Cascade PBS and co-published by KUOW. Sign up for Dispatches to get ProPublica stories in your inbox every week. Lonnie Rouse shuffled into a wood-paneled conference room at the Washington state Capitol in March 2018. It had been nearly a decade […]