State backs green aviation fuel plant as industry struggles to cut emissions

Workers connect a tanker truck at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to an Airbus A350 passenger jet, operated by Air France-KLM, fueling it with sustainable aviation fuel ahead of a flight to Montreal. (Nathan Laine / Bloomberg, 2021)

By  Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter Washington state has awarded a new $1.5 million grant for a planned sustainable aviation fuels and renewable diesel production facility projected to open in 2029 at Wallula Gap on the Columbia River. That’s a very small portion of the funding required to complete the facility being developed by

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

State Legislation 2025 (draft)

State legislative sessions are a flurry of hundreds of bills, all of which live or die within a 105 day window. We forget that State legislators are part-timers, often with days jobs, and many with only a single staffer. They will only ever read a handful of the bills they are being pitched. Our list of items always tries to follow four simple rules: understandable, cost-effective, impactful, and above all, short.

Three ways to make an impact in Olympia this year Update (2024-12-05): The City of Des Moines has adopted these three items as its official legislative agenda. Thanks! #1. Fixed Site Air Quality Monitor In Des Moines Establish a fixed-site monitor around Sea-Tac Airport to monitor the south end of the flight path in Des

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A list of the changes to City, State and Federal laws we'd like to see, along with key legislation in process at the State and Federal levels.

Vote View

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives. The original Voteview of DOS was developed by Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal at Carnegie-Mellon University between 1989 and 1992.