In a meeting attended by six of the eight commissioners, the Tacoma Planning Commission finalized its recommendations for the interim regulations on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. The regulations remained largely the same as presented during the public hearing save for…
Have you written to the city about interim regulations yet? Now is a great time to contact our City Council Members and advocate for putting these regulations in place as soon as possible. On Wednesday, October 4, the Planning…
September 21, 2017 More than 70 people converged on the Tacoma headquarters of Puget Sound Energy today at noon to send a loud and clear message: we demand that the Tacoma LNG facility be scrapped, the dirty Colstrip coal power…
You can still have your voice heard! Submit written comments via email to planning@cityoftacoma.org no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, September 15! Over the course of four and a half hours, the Planning Commission patiently listened to the testimony…
Thank you to the American labor movement and the social and economic achievements of workers! Here at 350 Tacoma, we know that jobs and a cleaner environment are not mutually exclusive. Jobs in clean energy – like solar and wind…
Testimony and Public Comment on Puget Sound Energy’s 2017 Rate Case Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission Dockets UE-170033 & UG-170034 If you live in Tacoma and you run across the words “Puget Sound Energy” and “public hearing” in an event…
In 2006, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization released a study showing that the animal agriculture industry is one of the chief contributors to climate change, contributing 18% of emissions, surpassing all transport industries combined (cars, trains, ships and…
On August 16, 2017, the Tacoma Planning Commission voted to hold a public hearing on September 13 regarding a set of proposed interim regulations, banning new heavy industry projects in the Port of Tacoma, that could be put in place…