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  • 2026-03-17

    Burien Airport Committee March 17, 2026

    North of NERA Presentation - Chaney Skadsen, Senior Planner Department of Ecology Budget Equity (HEAL Act) Conference Report - Louis Troisi and Karen Veloria. Committee Updates (as time allows) --StART Report – Karen Veloria and Jeff Harbaugh --SAMP Appeal – City Manager Bailon and City Attorney Newsom --SEPA Review Committee – Report from Liz Stead, Director of Community Development --Port Commission Response to City Council – Mayor Moore --Legislative Updates – Vice Chair Davis
  • 2026-03-11

    PSCAA Advisory Council Meeting Agenda

    Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and
  • 2026-03-09

    Des Moines Airport Advisory Committee Meeting

    CALL TO ORDER AGENDA ITEMS Item 1. Approval of Minutes Motion: “I move to approve the minutes from the Airport Advisory Committee meeting held on February 9, 2026.” Item 2. Complaints/Communications Item 3. Sea-Tac Stakeholder Advisory Round Table (StART) Discussion Item 4. Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP) Discussion Item 5. Legislative Discussion NEXT MEETING DATE
  • 2026-03-09

    How a Senate chairman’s retaliation harmed ferries | Opinion

    This may not appear to have much to do with the airport. It is extremely unusual for any WA state elected representative to express frustration someone in their own party--particularly someone as powerful as <a href="https://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/liias/">Senator Marko Liias (D) 21st LD</a>. But Democrats have had control of the legislatures so long it is inevitable that cracks will occur. We applaud any legislator with the courage to speak out in what has become a monoculture. In Washington, there are three independent budgets. As chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, Senator Liias controls one of them, billions of dollars in funding, not only for the ferry system, but also aviation fuels. One of his priorities is Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), a greenwashing distraction strongly supported by the Port of Seattle. There are ongoing plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in SAF processing facilities in and around his district. But despite promises from Alaska, United, and Delta, to achieve 10% usage by 2030, as of 2026 not one gallon of SAF has been used at Sea-Tac Airport.
  • 2026-03-05

    Ep #22 Why failed Port Package Update programs keep failing (For Dummies!)

    After 50 years of community engagement and millions spent on advocacy, why do airport communities continue to lose battles over noise, air quality, and expansion? The uncomfortable truth is that the Casino rewards community engagement—an approach that never works--over developing one that does.
  • 2026-03-04

    Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Settlement Summary

    Settlement Resources Press Release Lower Duwamish Consent Decree (pdf) (10.95 MB) Lower Duwamish Complaint (pdf) (192.55 KB)On March 4, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the state of Washington, reached a settlement agreement with more than 100 potentially responsible parties to address hazardous substances released into the Lower
  • 2026-02-26

    Paccar to vacate Sea-Tac Airport hangar 5 years early

    Paccar is negotiating a lease with Boeing Field, above, ahead of its departure from Sea-Tac Airport. King County | Ned Ahrens By Nick Pasion – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Feb 26, 2026 Story Highlights What’s This? Paccar Inc. will vacate its Seattle-Tacoma International Airport hangar five years early. The Port of Seattle waived about $2 million
  • 2026-02-25

    StART (SEA Stakeholder Advisory Round Table) Meeting

    Meeting Objectives An overview of SEA’s growth projections and its capacity considerations. The latest on the Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Project’s environmental review. Agenda Items 5:00 pm – Welcome Meeting Management Welcome/Introduction Led by: Andrés Mantilla, Facilitator, Uncommon Bridges & Wendy Reiter, Airport Managing Director, POS 5:15 pm – SEA Airport Growth Projections Presentation/QA
  • 2026-02-25

    Commercial Aviation Work Group Feb. 25 meeting in SeaTac

    OLYMPIA – The state Commercial Aviation Work Group, which evaluates Washington’s future needs for commercial aviation and transportation, will host its first meeting of 2026 at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, in SeaTac. The first meeting of the new year is the group’s ninth overall. The group recently submitted its 2025 report (PDF 163KB) to
  • 2026-02-25

    Aviation group raises possibility of high-speed rail link to SEA Airport

    WSDOT reportedly has had ongoing discussions about incorporating air mobility into the state’s high-speed rail planning, including the possibility of serving SEA. Credit: AP A high-speed train travels along rail tracks in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. SEATAC, Wash. — State transportation planners are in early discussions about whether a future high-speed rail line
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