2023-06-02
In this article, we will refer back and forth between two very different documents. The first is the Community Health and Airport Operations Related Pollution Report. The second is a Powerpoint® review of that study the Port Commission received in May of 2021. A Timeline In 2019, the State of Washington passed HB 1109. This
Community Projects are a recent innovation in the State Legislature. Essentially, House members sponsor their own grants which are funded as capital projects. In this case, $340,000 is being allocated for two ultrafine particle monitors to be handed off to Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA). One will be in Chinatown, at the confluence of
This post describes a proposal we have put forward to Washington State legislators Senator Karen Keiser (33rd) and Representative Jesse Johnson (30th). In one sentence, we want an annual report of all key aviation-related emissions for every neighborhood affected by the operations from Sea-Tac Airport. We refer to this proposal as Sea-Tac Airport Annual Air
The Sea-Tac Annual Air Quality Monitoring Program – a proposal Background Since 1971 there have roughly thirteen ‘studies’ of various air toxins around Sea-Tac Airport. We put the word ‘studies’ in air quotes because almost all of them have been limited either to a single toxin or to a subset of the complete Sea-Tac air
