Protecting & Preserving Puget Sound
The Trump administration has helped revive Pebble Mine, a project that could devastate Bristol Bay—the most productive salmon fishery in all of Alaska, and the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. Pebble Mine is a proposed massive open-pit copper and gold mine that would be located in the headwaters of Bristol Bay.
Register for our online workshop, where you will learn about opportunities and challenges of linking environmental justice work with environmental mitigation requirements identified in the Puget Sound Stewardship & Mitigation Fund. You will also hear from a panel of past grantees offering advice about shaping and implementing projects built around the intersection of equity and water quality
King County is developing a new long-term plan called the Clean Water Plan. The Plan will be the County’s new wastewater comprehensive plan, guiding water infrastructure investments in the County for decades to come. This is a critical time for our waters, but King County has failed to provide sufficient information for the public to be able to understand, meaningfully comment, and fully participate in this process.
Today, RE Sources and the Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team (DERT) will join Puget Soundkeeper in expanding the Waterkeeper Alliance in the Puget Sound portion of the Salish Sea. The expansion of the Waterkeeper Alliance in Puget Sound will enhance efforts to protect, preserve, and restore the waters of Puget Sound and its tributaries by increasing collaboration, partnership, and advocacy between these three organizations.
Today millions of streams and wetlands across the country lost protections as Trump’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule officially went into effect. This new rule dramatically decreases the waterways protected under the Clean Water Act.
As a clean water organization committed to environmental justice, we can no longer ignore the systemic racism and inequality that has occurred throughout our country’s history and continues to this day.
Puget Soundkeeper alongside regional tribes, environmental groups, water quality advocates and fishing organizations are going to court to fight the Trump administration’s latest effort to dismantle laws that protect Washington State’s clean water and public health.
As an organization committed to environmental justice, Puget Soundkeeper stands in solidarity with Black communities demanding an immediate end to the systemic violence against Black people, the policing of Black and Brown communities, and to hold our governments accountable in the killing of Black people and people of color.
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