2025-02-11
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 ranked highest on a standardized Environmental Justice scale, would automatically be subject to a new layer of environmental review specifically targeted
2025-02-04
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
2025-01-28
Last minute amendment to limit cruise marketing fails 2025 01 28 Agenda Packet Item 9a: Authorization for the Executive Director to Execute a Joint Marketing Agreement with State of Washington Tourism (SWT), a State Government Agency, to Promote International Tourism to Seattle and Washington State in Selected International Markets for Three Years at the Rate
2025-01-19
Please Sign in pro to support HB1303-2025 First hearing in the House Environment Committee Thursday January 23 8:00AM. This is the most important airport legislation of the year you don’t know about. It is exactly what was missing from the Sustainable Airport Master Plan Draft EA. It will require a supplemental environmental impact statement on
2024-12-31
Every city near the Sea-Tac Airport has its own, and very different, approach to airport issues. To illustrate this we encourage you to watch this five minute video segment and read the official Federal Way comments on the SAMP (starting on pg #299). Bill Vadino is the Strategic Advisor to Mayor Jim Ferrell, and one
2024-12-30
The SAMP and opportunities for change in the next three months Happy New Year to everyone who has followed and supported us since 2016. The coming year is going to be big and we’re changing in a few ways to try to keep up. The first thing you’ll notice is more frequent communications, which we’ll
2024-12-19
Now that the SAMP Public Comment period is closed, we decided to start posting some important milestones for how we got here. When local governments claim they were blindsided by the 2024 Draft EA, that is not true. This is a Federal Way City Council presentation on the SAMP from 2018 that was better than any information we saw this year. We can make progress, but we have to use the information we already have!
2024-12-18
Decision likely to come much earlier than expected! The Sustainable Airport Master Plan Draft EA comment period is now closed. We want to thank everybody who participated. We know the process was short and highly fraught. Nevertheless, we read some very good material. Thank you. The Port registered approximately 230 participants at their four Open
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