Environment
Seattle’s canopy shrinks as ordinance protects the wrong trees
Since 2023, the city has classified more than 2,000 trees as “protected” — without regard to whether they ever were threatened by development.
Robert McClure
Robert is co-founder and executive director of InvestigateWest. At the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Robert exposed a major weakness in the Endangered Species Act and deficiencies in Puget Sound restora
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Environment
How Cascadia’s climate activists fought off fossil fuels and succeeded
During a decade when the region’s governments flouted their carbon emissions goals, activists who came together to stop exports surpassed their wildest expectations.
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Pandemic pushes WA foster care group homes into lose-lose dilemmas
With one group home losing a state contract after turning away infected youth, operators at other homes fear state retaliation.
Environment
Should King County renew its lease with one of the region’s largest emitters of pollution?
Ardagh Group’s glass recycling plant is located near two Seattle neighborhoods where residents live sicker and die younger than in other areas in the city.
Environment
Building a seawall? These 'fish cops' might come knocking
If passed by the Legislature, a new law would help save small fish and, by way of the food chain, orcas.