BY DEBBIE COCKRELL, DECEMBER 20, 2019 06:00 AM – News Tribune Tacoma’s liquefied natural gas project under development on the Tideflats cleared a final permit hurdle last week, and challenges promised by opponents now have been filed. On Thursday, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians announced its formal action, as did Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law…
When climate change started killing the Pacific Northwest’s oysters by the millions, scientists and growers taught the world how to safeguard an ecosystem. by Levi Pulkkinen, December 20, 2019 – Crosscut Ocean acidification impacts all invertebrates in Pacific Northwest waters. About one-third of the organisms living in Puget Sound, the estuary surrounding the Seattle metro area, build…
The current approach to helping our most vulnerable is inadequate and unjust. We can change that by meeting everyone’s basic needs. by Tom Teicher, December 18, 2019 – CrosscutHomelessness, unaffordable health care, long lines at food banks, burdensome student debt. These exemplify the economic security concerns that plague greater Seattle and much of America. They paint…
Nonprofits and service providers are making progress, but we need more help. by Angela Dunleavy-Stowell, December 16, 2019 – Crosscut At this moment, as winter descends in the Pacific Northwest, there are well over 11,000 people living unsheltered and unhoused in King County. Many are veterans and single parents. Many are escaping abusive households, have lost jobs,…
After recent declines, a new breeding program could help safeguard the cockle’s future as a food source for tribes like the Suquamish. by Hannah Weinberger, December 18, 2019 – Crosscut When Suquamish tribal member Robin Sigo returned home from college in 1998, the cockles weren’t there to greet her. . . Over the past three springs…
