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Environment

Legislature eyes ways to control speculators buying Washington water rights

Several upcoming bills in the Washington Legislature aim to take on the state's convoluted water…

Levi PulkkinenFebruary 4, 2020

Environment

Senator: To help orcas and salmon, seawalls should be a last resort

Newly proposed legislation in the Washington Legislature would require waterfront homeowners along Puget Sound's 2,500-mile…

Levi PulkkinenJanuary 21, 2020

Environment

Water, climate, oil spills and more on Legislature’s environmental to-do list

Even with Democrats in charge of both houses of the Washington Legislature and the governor's…

Robert McClureJanuary 17, 2018

Coast Guard officers inspect an oil barge in Tacoma, Wash.

Environment

Push to protect Puget Sound from oil spills may stall in Legislature

Are barges that haul crude oil across Puget Sound a bigger risk now than oil…

Robert McClureJanuary 28, 2016