Environment & Sustainability

PSRC Releases First Ever Regional Open Space Plan

On Tuesday, the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) released a draft plan to guide conservation of open spaces throughout the four-county region in the decades...

Seattle Design Festival 2019 Takes to the Streets

With neighborhood crawls in Capitol Hill and Georgetown included in a packed schedule of events, the Seattle Design Festival is breaking out of the...

Issaquah Highlands TDR Deal: Public Comment Continues

Issaquah City Council had a well-attended meeting last night to discuss a major amendment to the Issaquah Highlands, which was detailed yesterday. Local residents were...

FAST Act Makes Slow Progress

The sausage has been made and the federal transportation bill has emerged from the conference committee with a treacly new name: Fixing America’s Surface...
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Safety and Canopy Concerns Prompt Bellevue Interim Tree Protections

As reported last week, Kirkland's recent updates to its tree codes have led to a lawsuit from the Master Builders' Association of King and...
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Inslee Releases 2020 Legislative Proposals on Homelessness, Transportation, and Climate

On Wednesday, Governor Jay Inslee (D-Washington) released his proposed budget for 2020. The budget is supplemental to the one that the state legislature approved...

Sunday Video: How Fracking Became America’s Money Pit

https://youtu.be/jFWHxZpF9rc It turns out that fracking is not as lucrative as it was once thought, Bloomberg Quicktake explains.

Are Trolleybuses Being Forgotten in Metro’s Rapid Transition to Battery Buses?

Carrying nearly 20% of King County Metro boardings, the trolley fleet has been a workhorse of Seattle transit for 84 years. But oddly, trolleybuses have not been a focal point of Metro's plan to electrify its fleet.