Dear Mayor Woodards and Council Members, First off, let us thank you for past years of interim regulations that have protected Tacoma from new polluting projects while we commence the subarea planning process. Now, with another term of the protections…
Puget Sound Energy is trying to complete construction of a Liquefied Natural Gas facility in the Port of Tacoma. It is quite a complex facility with five major components: Refinery Storage facility Marine bunkering facility Tanker truck facility Peak-shaving facility…
An international regulatory body for the shipping industry is finding that Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is merely a “complicated and ultimately unproductive shift from one fossil fuel to another.” Meanwhile, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency is poised to issue…
TACOMA, WA – September 20, 2019 – Local youth and their adult allies will be skipping school and work on Friday and heading to People’s Park at 2pm to partake in the Global Climate Strike day of action. The local…
By Barb Turner Collective conversations around how to keep fossil fuels in the ground, textiles out of the landfill, and plastic out of the kitchen have presented at least one simple, awesome praxis: Wax Wraps! A wax wrap is a…
TACOMA, WA – July 14, 2019 – On Sunday, 350 Tacoma opened the doors to its new community space at 311 Puyallup Avenue to celebrate this milestone and was honored to have in attendance Puyallup Tribal Elder Ramon Bennett, Puyallup…
The PSE-LNG facility being built on the Tacoma Tideflats is deeply, deeply flawed. Both the process and the content of the governmental oversight are at fault. The State Attorney General has called the official documentation governing the project “fictional.” Governor…
by Kathi White We are all very fortunate to live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest in the 60’s on the East Side of Tacoma. I remember playing in the forest at a very…
by Kathi WhiteFebruary 17, 2019 Seems that lately, we have been flooded with too much negative information! The nightly news is full of catastrophes, insanely severe weather, shootings, politics and political scandals. I honestly cannot watch the news sometimes. Many…
by Bradley Thompson The WPPSS (pronounced “whoops”) debacle of the early 1980s offers some interesting parallels to today. Back in the 1970s and 80s, speculators believed that cheap “clean” nuclear power would be the energy of the future. Through the…