Mount St. Helens warned residents for months that it was going to blow, venting gasses and shaking the ground. That’s generally how active volcanoes advertise that they’re awake.
An oceanographer who tracks flotsam says West Coast beachcombers may find floating athletic shoes with human remains as more debris from last year's Japanese tsunami finally washes ashore.
State government assumes, when deciding how clean Washington waters should be, that people eat up to a half-pound of local seafood per month.
It's still unclear what killed an endangered orca that washed up dead on Long Beach in February.
WASHINGTON – The heavy fuel that oceangoing vessels burn adds so much to air pollution hundreds of miles inland that the United States joined with Canada during President George W. Bush’s administration to ask the International Maritime Organization to create an emissions-control area along the coasts.
An heir to Tacoma’s Concrete Technology Corp., Karl Anderson was wealthy and well connected; he had business savvy and owned one of the only graving docks in Puget Sound big enough to pull the 276-foot Kalakala into and restore it to its original condition. A lawsuit pending in Pierce County Superior Court shows just how badly that turned out.
Pierce County prosecutors won’t bring first-degree malicious mischief charges against a Sumner city councilman in a tree-cutting case from December.
Two months after a 3-year-old endangered orca washed ashore bloodied and bruised in Washington state, the cause of its death remains a mystery.
The owner of a Sumner construction company with a history of violating water-pollution regulations has pleaded guilty to federal crimes related to the Clean Water Act and faces fines and possible prison time.
It’s been eight years since baby oysters started dying by the billions at an Oregon hatchery and in Washington’s Willapa Bay.
Federal and state environmental officials have discovered a potpourri of thousands of pounds of chemicals – many of them potentially hazardous – at a Tacoma Tideflats site that was engulfed by a sudden fire March 28.
A national environmental group asked a federal judge Tuesday to temporarily stop the federal government from issuing flood insurance policies for new development in certain flood-prone areas around Puget Sound.
As part of his plan to get 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015, President Barack Obama wants Congress to give buyers a tax credit of up to $10,000 next year. Engineers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are conducting research that could go a long way toward making the cars more affordable — not necessarily to buy, but to operate.
Environmentalists are fighting last-minute legislative proposals they say will weaken rules aimed at keeping toxic pollution out of Washington’s waters.
A showing of “Sound and Vision,” a documentary film about efforts to protect and clean up Puget Sound, will be show March 12 in Tacoma.
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