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Pierce County has decided not to start curbside collection of food waste for composting, citing concerns about generating foul odors and hurting its program for recycling yard waste.
- 16 days ago, 8 May 13, 7:34pm -

USGS worker’s efforts to keep tabs on South Cascade Glacier helps climate-change research | Traffic jams and fender-benders didn’t plague Matt Bachmann’s commute last week. Along with two associates, he took the ultimate commuter HOT lane —…
- 20 days ago, 5 May 13, 3:34am -

Entering her final year in office, former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire found herself in a difficult spot. Indian tribes, powerful supporters of the governor, wanted stricter water pollution rules. Meanwhile, her powerful supporters in the aeros…
- 30 days ago, 24 Apr 13, 6:47pm -

$150,000 in funding removed from budget to avoid political fray | A House Democratic budget proposal to spend $150,000 to study the larger economic impact of coal-export facilities on Washington state was dying just one day after majority Democrats i…
- 43 days ago, 12 Apr 13, 4:22am -

A retired Western Washington University professor testified to a Republican-controlled state Senate committee Tuesday that climate change stopped in 1998 and that human-caused greenhouse gases are not responsible for fluctuations in the Earth’s tem…
- 59 days ago, 27 Mar 13, 3:42am -

The state Department of Ecology has scheduled two open houses to inform North Tacoma residents about a new cleanup program for residential yards contaminated by the old Asarco smelter.
- 59 days ago, 27 Mar 13, 3:40am -

The state Department of Ecology has released plans for a $62 million cleanup of some 1,200 residential yards polluted by the old Asarco smelter in Ruston.
- 60 days ago, 26 Mar 13, 8:03am -

Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber wrote a letter to the White House today asking for a study of the climate-change and air-pollution effects of coal leases on federal lands and export of that coal to Asia. Read more: http://blog.thenew…
- 60 days ago, 25 Mar 13, 5:18pm -

The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency’s tough enforcement tactics last winter – including threats of $1,000 fines and nighttime enforcement squads armed with infrared cameras – had some stove owners complaining about “the nanny state” and “smo…
- 69 days ago, 17 Mar 13, 3:03am -

The public has until April 19 to submit comments on the state’s draft recovery plan for the Mazama pocket gopher. The burrowing rodent is listed by the state as a threatened species.
- 76 days ago, 10 Mar 13, 5:06am -

Both sides of the heated debate over a new Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River on the Washington-Oregon border drew a line in the sand on Thursday. In Olympia, Gov. Jay Inslee signed an $8.7 billion transportation bill but vetoed a provision…
- 17 hours ago, 24 May 13, 10:28am -

By a unanimous vote on Wednesday, the Washington State Transportation Commission adopted a 2.5 percent toll increase for the State Route 520 bridge during its meeting in Port Townsend. The commission gathered and considered written public comments ov…
- 2 days ago, 23 May 13, 9:48am -

Washington State Lt. Gov. Brad Owen said on Thursday one possible solution for the difference of opinion over the budget that’s made necessary a 30-special session would be for Democrats to stop extending the courtesy of a proxy vote to ailing GOP…
- 15 days ago, 10 May 13, 12:07pm -

The Republican majority on the Clark County Board of Commissioners was subjected to several hours of vitriol stretching into the early hours of Tuesday morning from liberals incensed by the appointment of longtime 17th District State Sen. Don Benton…
- 16 days ago, 9 May 13, 10:09am -

Clark County’s commissioners, the controversy over last week’s appointment of Sen. Don Benton to head the local Department of Environmental Services still ringing in their ears, are expected to further incense liberals tonight by voting to abolis…
- 18 days ago, 7 May 13, 11:05am -

It isn’t as eye-catching as the bigger-ticket items in the package, but a component of the transportation budget bill passed by the Washington State Legislature last week calling for a work group to study refinancing options for the Tacoma Narrows…
- 24 days ago, 1 May 13, 10:57am -

Twenty-sixth District Rep. Jan Angel wasted no time transitioning from governing to campaign mode on Monday, launching her active bid to claim the Senate seat left vacant in November when Gig Harbor Democrat Derek Kilmer was elected to Congress, succ…
- 26 days ago, 29 Apr 13, 10:31am -

Gov. Jay Inslee was forced to order a special session of the Washington State Legislature when lawmakers adjourned on Sunday far short of an agreement on a two-year budget. Republicans had urged the governor to start the extra session on Monday to un…
- 26 days ago, 28 Apr 13, 9:19pm -

Even as the Washington State Legislature races to reconcile diametrically opposing views in the House and Senate regarding education, transportation and the operating budget in time to adjourn by Sunday, Gov. Jay Inslee signaled on Wednesday he still…
- 31 days ago, 24 Apr 13, 11:53am -

Washington State’s House Transportation Committee last week passed what its supporters called a bare-bones, no-frills budget. On Monday, the frills were added — as was a funding package to pay for them. At the heart of the $8.4 billion package wa…
- 32 days ago, 23 Apr 13, 10:03am -