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January 18th, 2014 | Tags: Cherry Point coal export terminal, coal industry, fundamental environmental laws, largest coal export terminal in North America, stand up against efforts to weaken SEPA, Tiffany McGuyer, Washington Department of Ecology, Washington Senate Environment and Economic Development, Washington SEPA | Category: Feature, Grassroots Movements, News, Statewide, United States, Washington | Wash. Conservation voters Tiffany McGuyer @ wcvoters.org
Jan. 17, 2014
When a proposal was created to build the largest coal export terminal in North America – you got loud. Over 124,000 concerned citizens submitted comments and more than 8,200 people attended hearings on the Cherry Point coal export terminal.
Thankfully, the Department of Ecology determined that such an unprecedented project deserved a comprehensive review.
Yet yesterday, a joint work session in the [Wash.] State Legislature by the Senate Environment [...]
Continue reading Stand Up for Washington’s State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
January 16th, 2014 | Tags: 25 acres of wetlands, Alaska oil decreasing, Anacortes 100-car trains carrying Bakken oil, Anacortes North Dakota's Bakken oil, Bakken oil, build new wetlands, Burlington, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway line onto Shell property, East March Point Road, March Point, Mount Vernon, Nookachamps Wetlands Mitigation Bank, Paul Queary, Shell Anacortes refinery, Shell Oil, Shell's Puget Sound Refinery, Skagit River, Thomas Rizzo | Category: Anacortes, Feature, News, United States, Washington |
Shell Oil Company located on March Point, Anacortes, Wash.
Posted by: Mark Stayton for Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash. in Bakken News, Energy, Dec. 21, 2013
ANACORTES — Shell’s Puget Sound Refinery on March Point is moving closer to building a rail offloading facility for crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken formation now that high-level design [...]
Continue reading Anacortes–Shell’s Bakken Rail Unloading Facility Moves Forward
January 15th, 2014 | Tags: Anacortes Ad Hoc Committees, Anacortes Community Coordination Commission, Anacortes First-Year Outlook, Anacortes Mayor's Advisory Committee, Anacortes Transition Team, Brad Adams, Coffee with Laurie Gere, Eric Johnson, Erica Pickett, Gere-a-Deli, John Archibald, Liz Lovelett, Matt Miller, Mayor Dean Maxwell, Mayor Laurie Gere, Ryan Walters | Category: Feature, News, Uncategorized, United States, Washington | Alliance for Democracy note: Mayor Laurie Gere defeated incumbent Mayor Dean Maxwell, 62 percent to 38 percent of the vote. Mayor Maxwell had promoted a water agreement with Tethys Enterprises in order to build the largest bottling plant in North America, which would have been entitled to five million gallons of water per day. The bottling plant had been a hot issue that worked against the vote for Mayor Maxwell.
Mayor Gere ready with plan for 2014
First-Year Outlook [...]
Continue reading Anacortes Mayor Gere Wants Open and Transparent Government
December 20th, 2013 | Tags: acting deputy director of NOAA's Coastal Services Center, EPA, Gov. John Kitzhaber, John King, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nina Bell;Oregon coastal pollution regulation, NOAA, NOS, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, Oregon 90-day public comment period, Oregon coastal pollution;'Tags: ', ', ', ' | ' million annually, Oregon coho salmon habitat, Oregon logging, Oregon pollution from aging and leaky septic systems, Oregon storm water management for new development, Oregon water pollution;Northwest Environmental Advocates, Richard Whitman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Category: Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | OregonLive Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing polluted runoff into coastal streams like Flesher Slough, a coho salmon habitat near Yaquina Bay. (Matt Fehrenbacher/PFT) By Rob Davis | rdavis@oregonian.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter December 19, 2013 at 6:04 PM, updated December 20, 2013 at 6:05 AM
Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing coastal pollution runoff, saying while they see [...]
Continue reading Oregon Could Lose Millions for Coastal Streams as Feds Target Logging Pollution
December 19th, 2013 | Tags: 0-a-month sewer bills, Association of Washington Business, Dave Clark, Department of Ecology, fish consumption issue, HDR Engineering, HDR study, human fish consumption, Kelly Susewind, Maia Bellon, PCBs, plans to adopt new rules for surface-water discharges, populations that eat the most fish, Puget Sound, Schroeder, sewer bills, The Association of Washington Cities, tribal fish consumption, Washington State Association of Counties, Waterkeepers Washington | Category: Feature, Legal, News, Statewide, United States, Washington | Posted December 11th, 2013 ‘Fish consumption’ issue could mean $200-a-month sewer bills — business, local-government organizations sound alarm as Ecology seeks standards no one can meet.
By Erik Smith Washington State Wire
Boise Cascade’s Wallula mill: Pulp and paper industry would be sharply affected.
OLYMPIA, Dec. 10.—$200-a-month sewer bills, anyone? Business and local governments are sounding a new warning about a Department of Ecology plan to impose water-quality standards so tough no one can [...]
Continue reading Study: New Water Quality Standards Would Cost Billions, Produce Little Benefit
December 19th, 2013 | Tags: climate legislative and legislative work group, climate skeptics, conceptual agreement, Ferndale, Governor Jay Inslee, Joe Fitzgibben, Science Applications International Corp., Sen. Doug Ericksen, Washington carbon footprint, Washington carbon pollution | Category: Feature, Legal, News, Statewide, United States, Washington | Showdown postponed on sweeping carbon-pollution policies for State. Climate panel likely to continue next year. Dec. 19, 2013 By Erik Smith Washington State Wire
The Climate Legislative and Executive Workgroup holds a public hearing last week. Left to right, state Rep. Liz Pike, R-Camas, filling in for Shelley Short, R-Addy, Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Island, Gov. Jay Inslee, Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, and Joe Fitzgibbon, R-Des Moines; non-member Rep. Jake Fey, D-Tacoma is in second row.
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Continue reading Climate Task Force Cancels Final Meeting–No Recommendation for 2014 on Cap and Trade, Low Carbon Fuel Standards
December 5th, 2013 | Tags: drinking water, drinking water standards, EPA drinking water, health effects of vinyl chloride, plastics factories, plastics in wells, toxic substances in my drinking water, vinyl chloride | Category: Community Rights, Feature, News, United States | United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA regulates vinyl chloride in drinking water to protect public health. Vinyl chloride may cause health problems if present in public or private water supplies in amounts greater than the drinking water standard set by EPA.
What is vinyl chloride? Uses for vinyl chloride. What are vinyl chloride’s health effects? What are EPA’s drinking water regulations for vinyl chloride? How does vinyl chloride get into my drinking water? Continue reading Plastic Factories a Major Source of Vinyl Chloride in Drinking Water
December 4th, 2013 | Tags: 1996 agreement, 2001, 2001 Instream Flow Rule, April 14, City of Anacortes, Commissioner Sharon Dillon, Department of Ecology and Skagit County, Jacque Klug, John Roozen, Kyle Brown, Loranger, rural landowners, Skagit landowners, Skagit PUD, Skagit River Basin, state Department of Ecology, Supreme Court ruling, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Tom Loranger, water meeting | Category: Community Rights, Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
By Rachel Lerman | Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 8:00 am
MOUNT VERNON — State officials urged Skagit landowners Tuesday to “start fresh” and not rehash the past fights over water rights as the state searches for solutions.
“We’ve lost 12 years. And now we’re back to where we started from,” said Tom Loranger, program manager of the water resources program at the state Department of Ecology. “My hope is that we can start…with [...]
Continue reading Wash. Dept. of Ecology Seeks to Ease Tensions at Water Meeting
December 2nd, 2013 | Tags: agriculture, berry grower, Cherry Point, fish dying in the Nooksack River, Gateway Pacific Terminal coal export pier, Jay Manning, Jim Bucknell, Lummi Natural Resources Department, Marty Maberry, Michael Mirande, Nooksack Indian Tribe, Nooksack River, pumping from wells, Randy Kinley, Salmon, Whatcom County Factories, Whatcom County Farms, Whatcom County's water rights disputes | Category: Community Rights, Feature, News, United States, Washington | BY JOHN STARK
THE BELLINGHAM HERALD, June 3, 2013
Dan Kruse, left, and Robert Teton of the Lummi Natural Resources Department, use a net to try to catch juvenile salmon to count on Feb. 15, 2012 at Marine Park in Bellingham. The department counts juvenile salmon around Bellingham Bay about once every two weeks. The Lummi and Nooksack tribes have asked federal agencies to file a lawsuit on their behalf to help determine the amount [...]
Continue reading Wash. Water Dispute Clouds Future for Whatcom County Farms, Factories
December 2nd, 2013 | Tags: 2001 Instream Flow Rule, 2001 rule, 2006 amendment, battle over water rights, buying senior water rights, County Assessor Don Munks, extending public water lines, groundwater storage, Kyle Brown, property values, Skagit County, Skagit River Basin, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Wash. Dept. of Ecology, Wash. Supreme Court ruling, Water Wars | Category: Action Alerts, Community Rights, Events, Feature, Grassroots Movements, News, Towns, other, United States, Washington | Skagit County, Western Wash.
Wash. Dept. of Ecology to hold water rights workshop on Dec. 2 in Mount Vernon.
By Rachel Lerman/Posted: Sunday, December 1, 2013 9:00 am
Potential builders and landowners face a state of limbo as the state Department of Ecology searches for solutions in a water rights battle that has lasted decades.
The battle over water rights in the Skagit River basin reached a plateau Oct. 3 with the state Supreme Court’s ruling against Ecology in a [...]
Continue reading Wash. Water Ruling Could Have Far-Reaching Effects, Including Dropping Property Values
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Oregon Could Lose Millions for Coastal Streams as Feds Target Logging Pollution
OregonLive Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing polluted runoff into coastal streams like Flesher Slough, a coho salmon habitat near Yaquina Bay. (Matt Fehrenbacher/PFT) By Rob Davis | rdavis@oregonian.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter December 19, 2013 at 6:04 PM, updated December 20, 2013 at 6:05 AM
Federal regulators are proposing to overturn the state of Oregon’s program for reducing coastal pollution runoff, saying while they see [...]
Continue reading Oregon Could Lose Millions for Coastal Streams as Feds Target Logging Pollution