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2025-10-31OLR Research Report
A research report header or cover page from OLR (Office of Legislative Research) featuring a blue banner with official seal and title text. -
Legislation 2026
A list of programs and changes to City, Port, State and Federal law we can and must implement in the upcoming legislative calendar. The SAMP is the largest and longest expansion in airport history. These policies will reduce noise, pollution, provide mitigation and compensation for decades of inequity. This is a blueprint not only for Sea-Tac, but for every community unfairly impacted by commercial aviation. Solve for Sea-Tac, solve for every airport. -
2025-02-24
SB5652 will not move forward this year
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 -
2025-02-21State backs green aviation fuel plant as industry struggles to cut emissions
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 -
2025-02-19
SHB1303 hearing in House Appropriations Committee
Substitute bill to address cumulative impacts faces stiff opposition Guillermo Morel: I’m here with Front and Centered, a network of 50 community-based organizations across the state working toward a just transition. We are led by communities of color and low-income populations. I want to take you back to 2021 when we passed the HEAL Act. -
2025-02-18
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 -
2025-02-13Call To Action: Support SB5652 Tuesday, February 18 @ 1:30PM
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 -
2025-01-23HB 1303 Bill Analysis – Increasing environmental justice by improving government decisions
Analysis of Washington State House Bill 1303 which adds environmental justice considerations to SEPA review processes, requires environmental justice impact statements for projects in certain communities, and prohibits approvals for new air contaminant sources in specified communities under the Clean Air Act. -
2025-01-22HIGHLINE FORUM – 2025 State and Federal Legislative Issues
Agenda for Highline Forum meeting hosted by Port of Seattle focusing on 2025 state and federal legislative issues. The hybrid meeting includes public comments, administrative issues, legislative discussions, StART update, and round table updates. -
2025-01-15HB1303-2025 (CURB act)
The purpose of this act is to reduce the disparities in cumulative environmental and health impacts in Washington and improve the health of all Washington residents. To evaluate probable adverse environmental impacts on environmental justice under this chapter for a potentially impactful project located or proposed to be located in whole or in part in