SB5652 first hearing at Senate Environment Committee

Bill to reduce health disparities at Sea-Tac gets community support and firm Port opposition Senator Tina Orwall’s introduced her bill to help reduce environmental and health disparities and improve the health of airport community residents, SB 5652 was heard in the Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Committee. Text of SB5652 SB 5652 aims to reduce

HB1303 passes out of House Environment Committee

Slimmed down version loses Overburdened Community provision In a vote mostly along party lines the committee passed  HB1303-1st Substitute bill. The key change was removal of the original requirement that pollution overburdened communities, those that ranked highest on the standardized Environmental Justice scale would automatically be subject to a new later of environmental review which

Orwall introduces airport legislation SB5652

Senator Tina Orwall (Des Moines 33rd) has introduced and is currently the sole sponsor of SB5652 In Brief:  Starting January 1, 2026, qualifying port districts must obtain an environmenal justic assessment before approving any significant port action. This assessment must be conducted by the University of Washington’s department of environmental and occupational health sciences, working

HB1303 Environment Committee Hearing

Introducing the CURB Act V2.0 The first meeting of the State House Environment Committee introduced HB1303 (bill,  analysis), also known as ‘the CURB act’. This is a follow-up to 2024’s  HEAL Act, which added the concept of Environmental Justice Communities into State Law.  HB1303 takes this from the conceptual phase into something practical. HB1303 will