Tacoma, WA: In a historic day, the Puyallup Nation and the City of Tacoma have each passed their own climate emergency resolutions, both inspired by the Tacoma Youth Climate Strike on September 20th. The Puyallup are the first tribal nation…
Tacoma, WA: On Friday, December 6th, youth activists are holding a climate strike as part of the growing global response to the climate crisis. The rally will be held from 12pm – 2pm at Tollefson Plaza in downtown Tacoma and…
by Tracy Wiegman Today I rode the bus to Seattle with Claudia Riedener and we went to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency board meeting where we joined a beautiful coalition of people from Power Past Fracked Gas, Physicians for…
TACOMA, WA – November 12, 2019 – During a City Council meeting that stretched from 5pm past 10pm, concerned residents and students from Tacoma once again made their case for stronger interim regulations. Once again, City Council turned a deaf…
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…