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Dateline Earth
Check out our environmental blog for frequently updated tips and tidbits
· Federal Way kids need permission to watch inauguration
· New report: Toxics widespread in Columbia River Basin
· A mossback's view of the Texas coast
Reader blog: Energy: Strategies, Policy & Best Practices
· Energy Prices to Stay Low Through 2009, but Rise in 2010
· Google Puts Energy into Carbon Counter-Claims
· Bye-Bye P-I; What Next for the Energy Blogger?
Reader blog: Building Seattle Green
Environmentally conscious design
· Seattle Gets a New Green Roof
· Small Bathrooms with green standards
· Kitchen design for Green Gourmets
Reader blog: Green Gal
Environmentally conscious living
· The "greenest" day of them all
· The neti revolution
· Naked snacking
Reader blog: Green Human
A Seattle environmental blog
· Get Green at the Bellevue Home Show Jan 23-25
· Happy Green 2009 - Time to clean behind your fridge, check your furnace, change a lightbulb and save money!!
· Licking political wounds, Nickels revises salt policy - Blogs like this make a difference!
Reader blog: Living Simply: Creating a New Life Off the Grid
· It is what it is
· How do I write a poem about cancer?
· PEACE AND JUSTICE
Reader blog: Electric Vehicle Guide
· This blog has been suspended
· T. BOONE PICKENS Project
· Roberto DePaschoal, a new contributer to EV Guide
Climate Change
Fears about the damage caused by climate change -- less snow, vanishing shorelines, more forest fires -- are mounting. How will governments, businesses and residents respond?
· Former President Clinton sees climate's silver lining (November 2007)
· Seattle urges greenhouse cuts (September 2007)
· Global warming needs green revolution (October 2007)
· Scientists say humans warming world (February 2007)
· Special report: What climate change means to the region (November 2003)
Tracking Puget Sound's Health
The Puget Sound region's iconic estuary is being hammered by pollution and development. Leaders pledge they'll save the Sound, but will it work?
· Plan to dump PCBs in Elliott Bay (September 2007)
· Tribes win on ruling on salmon (August 2007)
· Gov.'s plan to help Sound (May 2007)
· Special Report: The Sound of Broken Promises (October 2006)
· Special Report: Our Troubled Sound (November 2002)
Global Warming
A warmer world means less snow and higher tides in the area. Agencies are trying to slow greenhouse gas releases and prepare for the changes.
· Read the story: How changing water temperatures affect Lake Washington's ecosystem. (July 2005)
· Multimedia: See how it works (Flash 6)
· Special report: What climate change means to the region, includes full-page PDF (November 2003)
Endangered Species
Beloved Northwest salmon, orcas and spotted owls are in jeopardy of vanishing. There are efforts to save them -- will they succeed?
· Logging stopped to help owl (August 2007)
· Wild vs. hatchery salmon (August 2007)
· Salmon rescue plan (January 2007)
· Special report: The federal government is handing out licenses to kill endangered species (May 2005)
Natural Seattle
Sure it's a metropolis, but Seattle is home to countless wild things. But how healthy is the city's ecosystem?
· Special report: What is happening to Seattle's urban forest and what's at risk. (November 2005)
· Multimedia: What happens when an urban forest is neglected, or if it's restored (Flash 6 required).
· Recent news: Getting the ivy out at Beacon Hill park (January 2006)
P-I reporters Lisa Stiffler and Robert McClure cover environmental issues from the region and beyond. Contact Lisa by e-mail or phone (206-448-8042) and Robert by e-mail or phone (206-448-8092).
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2009
Diesel truckers air concerns to port
The Port of Seattle tried to hear and allay the concerns of diesel truckers alarmed by a port environmental program that aims to reduce the pollution created by the aging fleet of heavy-duty trucks.
Study: Sound orcas eat more toxic salmon
A new study suggests that Puget Sound killer whales appear to be more contaminated than northern orcas because they're eating salmon that is more toxic.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009
Protesters halt work at gravel mine site
A flotilla of protesters disrupted work on a controversial sand and gravel mine on Maury Island Tuesday.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2009
Goldmark inherits shellfish ruling
Outgoing state Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland is leaving to his successor the controversial decision whether to allow the state's largest shellfish growers to profit from shellfish illegally planted on state-owned land.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2009
Blame recurring floods on a triple whammy
Are disastrous floods becoming an annual torment in Western Washington? And if so, what's to blame? Development? Logging? Climate change?
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2009
Company seeks to study ocean waves' potential to produce electricity
A Washington state company has asked federal regulators for a permit to study the potential of producing electricity from ocean waves off the California, Hawaii and Atlantic coasts.
MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009
Group uses lawsuits to help clean up Sound
Using a provision in the law that allows citizens to sue individual polluters, a Seattle environmental group has brought legal action against more than 50 businesses in the last two years.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2009
Lawmaker aims to tweak electronics recycling law
A state law that just went into effect to encourage recycling of electronics needs some tinkering to make sure it doesn't inadvertently bankrupt businesses that fix old computers, says a state legislator.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2008
Blue Sky leads a green revolution in dry cleaning
Only about 35 dry cleaners in the U.S. use toxin-free carbon dioxide to clean clothes, and Seattle's Blue Sky Cleaners, which launched in September, is one of them.
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News sources
· Sightline Institute (formerly Northwest Environment Watch)
· Environmental Health News
· Grist Magazine
· Society of Environmental Journalists
Quick resources
· Report an oil spill
· Where to dump hazardous waste
· Mercury in fish warnings
· How clean is the air
· There's a cougar in my backyard
· Report illegal tree cutting
· What to do with an old computer
Climate change
· Washington Climate Advisory Team
· UW Climate Impacts Group
· Climate Solutions
· Transportation Choices Coalition
Groups - Watery
· People For Puget Sound
· Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
· American Rivers
· Trout Unlimited
· Center for Whale Research
· Puget Sound Partnership
· Wild Fish Conservancy Northwest
· Save Our Wild Salmon
Groups - Turf
· Cascade Land Conservancy
· Trust for Public Land
· The Mountaineers
· PlantAmnesty
· Seattle Urban Nature Project
· Conservation Northwest
· The Nature Conservancy, Wash.
· Futurewise
· National Parks Conservation Association
Groups - Critters
· Center for Biological Diversity
· Defenders of Wildlife
· Audubon Washington
· Seattle Audubon Society
Groups - Poisonous
· Washington Toxics Coalition
· Heart of American Northwest (Hanford)
· Government Accountability Project (Hanford)
· Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
· Environmental Working Group
Grab Bag
· Washington Environmental Council
· Environment Washington (formerly WashPIRG)
· EarthJustice
· Sierra Club, Cascades
· Sustainable Ballard
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