Ecology's Hanford Education & Outreach Network

A Hanford information center and connecting place for teachers, environmental educators, interested public, and other stakeholders.

This page is brought to you by the Washington State Department of Ecology's Nuclear Waste Program. Please see our policy for commenting on Ecology’s Facebook pages under General Information.

Welcome to the Washington Department of Ecology’s Hanford Education & Outreach Facebook page. This site offers an opportunity for a free and open exchange of ideas about Hanford cleanup, in a climate of mutual respect.

The comments and opinions expressed by users of this site do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Ecology or its employees. All public comments are screened in accordance with this policy.

We encourage robust discussions and sharing of information on this site. We want to retain your comments on our page, but we will delete comments that:

• Contain vulgar, threatening, or harassing language, personal attacks of any kind, or offensive terms that target specific individuals or groups.
• Promote services or products (non-commercial links that are relevant to the blog post or comment may be acceptable).
• Are far off-topic.
• Sexually explicit.
• Make unsupported accusations.
• Promote or oppose any person campaigning for election to a political office or promote or oppose any ballot proposition.

We don’t edit comments to remove objectionable content, so please make sure your comments contain none of the above.

Only comments that comply with Ecology’s policy will be allowed to remain posted.

We recognize that the Web is a 24/7 medium, and your comments are welcome at any time. However, given the need to manage our resources, comment review will generally occur during regular business hours Monday through Friday. Comments submitted after hours or on weekends will be read and moderated as early as possible the next business day.

Those posting comments are fully responsible for everything they submit in their comments, and all posted comments are in the public domain.

To protect your own privacy and the privacy of others, please do not include phone numbers, home addresses, or email addresses in the body of your comment.

Reporters are asked to send questions through their normal channels and to refrain from submitting questions as comments on this site.

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This policy is subject to amendment or modification at any time to ensure its continued use is consistent with its intended purpose as a limited forum.

Thank you for taking the time to read this policy. We encourage your participation in our discussion and look forward to an active exchange of ideas.