Protecting & Preserving Puget Sound
Governor Inslee, Director Bellon, and Commissioner Goldmark, we urge you to declare a moratorium on permits for new oil transport infrastructure until Ecology can conduct a programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that adequately describes the risk the new infrastructure represents.
Court gives green light for water pollution lawsuit to proceed, major implications for coal shipper.
Measuring 45 miles, the Elwha is short by river standards. Yet it is a mighty artery fed by eight major tributaries branching through a 321 square mile watershed.
Four vignettes followed stories of stormwater management in Philadelphia, cleanup of the Bronx River in New York, the widespread installation of green infrastructure in Portland, and water conservation in San Antonio.
In order to protect and reserve Puget Sound, we need to keep finding ways for everyone in the watershed to understand this direct link between activities on land and pollution in the water.
I will be completing my Capstone Internship for University of Washington’s Program on the Environment throughout the fall and winter.
The name “Skykomish” comes from the Northern Lushootseed word /sq’íxʷəbš/, meaning “upriver people”, from /q’íxʷ/, “upstream”.
In the Puget Sound region, over 465 volunteers collected and removed 5141 pounds of debris from 15 miles of shoreline.
We are facing a growing risk as more oil is transported along the Columbia River, across the Puget Sound, and through the outer coast.
Since early September, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance has been partnering with a variety of groups and communities to complete shoreline cleanups throughout the Puget Sound as part of the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup!