Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Environment Watch

Blogs

Dateline Earth
Check out our environmental blog for frequently updated tips and tidbits
· CA's Jerry Brown sues Bush over species
· Bush enviro legacy protects big ocean swath
· New species found: Galapagos pink iguana

Reader blog: Energy: Strategies, Policy & Best Practices
· Progress Energy Signs Contracts for Nuclear Plants
· New Year's Day Storm To Hit Seattle?
· Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade

Reader blog: Building Seattle Green
Environmentally conscious design
· The Living Shelter Cafe - A New, Local Green Talk Show!
· Sustainability and Preservation with a Seattle Twist
· West Duo Home in Kirkland

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
· 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!
· De-icing and plowing in N.W.- are we on right track here?

Reader blog: Living Simply: Creating a New Life Off the Grid
· THE MONSTROSITY OF WAR
· CEDAR� from tree to landing entrance
· Log Towing

Reader blog: Electric Vehicle Guide
· This blog has been suspended
· T. BOONE PICKENS Project
· Roberto DePaschoal, a new contributer to EV Guide

Special Reports

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).

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.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2008
Areas in Washington exceed pollution standards
BOISE -- Most of the states west of the Rocky Mountains have areas that have been failing to meet new pollution standards for microscopic particles that can cause breathing problems for children and the elderly.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2008
King Electrical fined for dumping into storm drains
King Electrical Manufacturing Co. has been fined $20,000 by the Washington Ecology Department for dumping industrial wastewater into Seattle's storm drains that empty into Hamm Creek, the Ecology Department officials said Thursday.

Wyden opposes Mount Hood pipeline
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden says he opposes a U.S. Forest Service decision to allow a natural gas pipeline to run through Mount Hood National Forest.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2008
Sound's future still murky
Scientists say ancient marine mud reveals that Puget Sound can recover, but won't unless much more is done to reduce pollution from stormwater runoff.

Alcoa dredges tainted sediment
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Alcoa Inc. has removed more than 5,000 cubic yards of PCB-tainted sediment from the Columbia River and its shoreline at an old smelter site in Vancouver.

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