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Healthy environment pairs with strong economy
The 2012 Legislature is a particularly vexing one for those who know that a healthy environment and a strong economy go hand in hand. Efforts are under way on several fronts to roll back environmental rules and regulations under the guise of jobs creation and economic prosperity.
Promote clean water with green infrastructure
Reduce water pollution and promote clean waterways in Washington with green infrastructure in building and design. Lawmakers in Olympia must not stall efforts already under way to move ahead.
Environment again a source of friction in Olympia
Clean-water advocates at the Capitol fear environmental protections could be repealed or softened this year as part of a budget and tax deal.
Compromise sought on green-power mandate
Power companies this month are facing mandates voters imposed in 2006 to either produce green energy or buy credits from those who do.
State lawmakers seek ban on toxins in kid products
Washington state legislators announced plans Wednesday to ban a suspected carcinogen from being used as a flame retardant in children's products.
Pollution Free Prosperity: Is it Possible in an Economy that Looks Like This?
Green Acre Radio is a weekly radio program focusing on important issues in the environmental and sustainability movement. This report examines the 2012 Environmental Priorities: "Pollution-Free Prosperity," "Fulfilling Our Clean Energy Future," and the "Toxic-Free Kids Act".
Toxic flame retardant ban environmental goal for session
The environmental community has just one priority bill – a ban on toxic flame retardants in baby and children’s products – in a 2012 legislative session consumed by the state budget crisis.
A federal judge told polluters and regulators to follow the law
ECHOING the impatience of an earlier U.S. Supreme Court decision, a federal judge told five Washington oil refineries to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and directed the state to enforce the law.
The Coal Pipeline: In Pacific Northwest, A Local Battle Has Global Fallout
The flyer and I landed in Matt Krogh's Bellingham office on the same October afternoon. I had stopped by to hear why he thought building the country's largest coal port just north of town was a bad idea; the four-page full-color mailing had arrived to try to convince him otherwise.
Black Diamond shows democracy in spades
"It's the town that roared," says David Bricklin, a Seattle attorney who said he's never seen a political uprising to match this in more than three decades of working on local land-use issues.
