We will be holding six webinars from June through November 2020 for the Greenhouse Gas Assessment for Projects (GAP) rulemaking. The webinars will be focused on specific topics described in the table below. Each webinar will include a 30-45 minute presentation by Ecology on the topic. Then there will be time for the public to…
Crews demolished a river dam in Northwest Washington to clear the way for salmon to reach critical habitat. It’s an explosion years in the making. The blast near Bellingham will make the Middle Fork Nooksack River free flowing for the first time in more than five decades. Read more here.
Collecting and organizing genetic diversity as a conservation strategy emergedin the 1960s and now plays an important role in ensuring the world’s collective food security. Seed saving organizations have helped secure over 100,000 seedsduring wartime in Syria, preserve 13 million seeds from over 70 species of native trees in the United Kingdom, and contribute to…
Officials from the Trump administration announced last week that a plan to open a copper and gold mine that threatens Alaska’s largest salmon nursery would not pose a serious environmental threat. . . . Opponents have argued that the environmental impact statement was not rigorous enough, as they highlighted hazardous risks, including the potential for…
In June, women held at Eloy Detention Center, a private immigration prison in Arizona owned and operated by CoreCivic, began to write down what they were going through. The letter writers did so despite the threat of retaliation, because, they said, people had to know what was happening. “You can’t speak freely here,” one woman wrote. The…
