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Opinion: Clean air everywhere, for everyone in Washington

Recently, legislative debates turned from carbon pricing to the Healthy Environment for All Act (HEAL) uplifting environmental justice (EJ). This is important legislation, but what we really need are bold solutions and different laws addressing a persistent form of unjust and ongoing pollution.…

2021-03-01
Opinion: Clean air everywhere, for everyone in Washington

Recently, legislative debates turned from carbon pricing to the Healthy Environment for All Act (HEAL) uplifting environmental justice (EJ). This is important legislation, but what we really need are bold solutions and different laws addressing a persistent form of unjust and ongoing pollution.…

2021-03-01
In South Seattle, teens collect moss to help ID air quality

Residents of Seattle’s Duwamish River Valley have long known they suffer from high levels of air pollution. Air pollution that comes from nearby heavy industry, highways and air traffic has plagued South Seattle neighborhoods.

To the point that we have 13 years of life…

2020-07-06
South Seattle residents want greener neighborhoods — without more gentrification

South Seattle has long been a center of industrial development. But those tech workers who may be looking south for their new bungalow soon? They are pouring into South Lake Union and Ballard, sections of Seattle that once housed lots of industry — industry…

2019-07-30
WWU’s Jenise Bauman Partnering with State and Local Agencies on Cleanup of Port Orchard’s Harper’s Creek Estuary 2019-03-01
Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment to Offer New Summer Program in Poulsbo 2018-05-08
These South Seattle Teens Are Taking On The Nation's Aviation Regulators

It’s 8 o'clock on a rainy, windy Saturday morning, and John Hoac and Brandon Teeny just got to school —  Cleveland High in south Seattle. They’re here to measure air and noise pollution on campus.

“In south Seattle it’s much noisier” than in north Seattle, says Troy Abel, a…

2018-02-07
Huxley on the Peninsulas' Troy Abel contributes chapter to new book 2017-09-05
Western on the Peninsulas students thriving after graduation 2017-08-09
Western’s Huxley College of the Environment on the Peninsulas to Hold Info Sessions This Spring in Bremerton and Poulsbo 2016-03-25
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