NEW: A 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.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hanford-nuclear-workers-compensation-washington-doe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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