Breathing Uneasy: Children who live in the Duwamish Valley run King County's highest risk of being hospitalized for asthma. Cancer rates are elevated as well.
The Port of Seattle heard considerable praise for its efforts to end truck pollution in Georgetown and elsewhere, along with criticism. Underlying the issue are union interests, lined up for and against the Port's position.
Breathing Uneasy: The port's Tay Yoshitani came here promising to make Seattle the green leader. But he helped lead other ports in opposing federal reforms that would have helped.
From a huge development planned near Black Diamond in King County to Spokane, citizens find that developers' rights trump growth laws and environmental concerns.
A new city ordinance requires managers of some 9,000 buildings to report their annual energy consumption to the city.
