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Gov. Jay Inslee speaks with Sheila Remes, Boeing vice president of environmental sustainability, as they prepare to speak at the Paris Air Show on a panel about aviation sustainability on June 20, 2023. (Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times) By  The Seattle Times editorial board For the first time since the pandemic, the Paris Air

The difficulty for us is the fact that this was almost 2.5 hours of leaded gas expended simply for entertainment value.

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has cut the ribbon on nearly $2 billion worth of major capital projects in the last two years, but much more remains on its to-do list. The airport is looking ahead to another roughly $5 billion in updates through 2027. That’s in an effort to manage what’s now elevated demand throughout the

Alitheon and the Port of Seattle, in partnership with the Puget Sound Business Journal, sponsored a recent roundtable discussion about the future of logistics, which is vital to the region’s economy. PSBJ President and Publisher Don Baker moderated a panel with Roei Ganzarski, CEO, Alitheon; and David McFadden, Managing Director, Economic Development Division, Port of

By Irina Anghel Bloomberg Three years after the pandemic closed down offices around the world, the remote-work revolution has morphed into a tug of war between frustrated bosses and fed-up staff. While workers don’t want to give up flexibility, leaders want teams back to boost collaboration and avoid a productivity slump. The impasse is the

Passengers bustle through the C Concourse at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where peak travel season is getting underway. The airport forecasts it will top traffic records “several times throughout the summer.” ANTHONY BOLANTE | PSBJ By Marissa Nall – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Jun 26, 2023 Updated Jun 26, 2023 6:43pm PDT   Listen to this article3 min

Between 1955 and 1970, the United States passed five laws to monitor and regulate the country’s air pollution. Each act built upon the last and, in 1970, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, which established guidelines for “safe” levels of ambient air pollution, some of which are still used today. But a new study suggests those standards

By  Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace reporter Under intense political pressure, the aviation industry has set itself a daunting challenge to decarbonize flying by 2050 and laid out a road map to get there through technological innovation. For environmentalists, especially in Europe, that prolonged switch to clean energy technology is not good enough. “It takes

Editor’s note: This story is continually updated with new information. Last year, a pair of senators proposed new federal legislation that has the potential to significantly alter — if not completely eliminate — the world of credit cards that we know today. Today, they reintroduced the Credit Card Competition Act — with additional support from

By KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS Bloomberg As tranquil instrumental music plays over gauzy images of nature, a woman’s voice-over begins. “Isn’t it a paradox,” she wonders aloud, “that the love for this world that gets us out in it, sometimes leaves behind the things that can harm it? Flight by flight, we broaden our views. We gain