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Bill to reduce health disparities at Sea-Tac misses key deadline We want to extend our deepest thanks to everyone who supported SB 5652, Senator Tina Orwall’s bill to help reduce environmental and health disparities for communities impacted by Sea-Tac Airport. Unfortunately, the bill did not advance past the legislative cutoff date and will not move
Sign in Pro and provide testimony. Evaluate cumulative impacts for for communities impacted by SAMP! Senate Bill 5380, the Senate version of the CURB Pollution Act HB1303, is scheduled for a public hearing on Friday, 2/21 at 10:30 AM in the Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Committee. Full Text SB5380-2025 Bill History/Progress The CURB Pollution
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
Sea-Tac Airport is in the midst of both Federal (NEPA) and State (SEPA) environmental reviews of the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP). These reviews will determine by how much, if any, the airport can safely expand in the coming years. A key factor in this review is the airport’s ability to manage an increasing number
Sign in Pro and provide testimony. Help reduce noise and pollution for communities under the flight path! Senator Tina Orwall’s bill to help reduce environmental and health disparities and improve the health of airport community residents, SB 5652, is scheduled for a public hearing on Tuesday, 2/18 at 1:30 PM in the Senate Environment, Energy
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
No discussion + No direction = Greenwashing At last Thursday’s Study Session, the Des Moines City Council took all of five seconds to approve a new airport committee with no start date, no mission and an as yet to be defined structure. (Airport Committee Pages from Study Session – 06 Feb 2025 Agenda) The meeting
House Bill 1303, which adds an environmental justice component to large project permitting will be discussed by the House Environmental Committee in executive session next Tuesday February 11. The committee will decide whether or not to move the bill forward. The bill would help include cumulative impacts in the SAMP and thus we strongly support
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
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