Environment

Week in Review: drug enforcement, wildfires, and cash

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with freelance science journalist Jane C. Hu, Geekwire’s Mike Lewis, and Seattle Times Patrick Malone.

Harrell proposes ‘building performance standards’ to address Seattle pollution

Seattle’s biggest buildings would have to reduce their impact on the climate starting eight years from now.

Seattle's Holy Grail: reducing single-use cups

Seattle Public Utilities is partnering with local businesses to encourage reusable beverage containers. The goal is to keep those cups in use, and out of the landfill.

Week in Review: Amazon, politics, and mosquitos

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with political analyst Joni Balter, Puget Sound Business Journal’s Alex Halverson, and KUOW’s David Hyde.

For tribes, welcoming salmon to the Upper Columbia is a reminder of ‘lifelong work’

Each Spring, Northwest tribes celebrate the first foods of the season. At a Colville ceremony marking the return of migrating salmon, ecological challenges were top of mind.

Week in Review: Amazon, trees, and tacos

Guest host Mike Lewis discusses the week’s news with Publicola’s Erica Barnett, Insider’s Katherine Long, and KUOW’s Mike Davis.

After more than a decade, Seattle passes new rules to protect more city trees

Seattle is known as the Emerald City, but over the past couple decades it’s been losing a lot of what makes it green. The city’s most recent tree canopy assessment, released in 2021, found that Seattle’s tree cover had dropped to 28.1 percent -- short of a goal set nearly 15 years earlier of getting canopy coverage to at least 30 percent. To protect more trees from development, many urban forest advocates have spent years asking for an update to rules for removing and replacing trees in Seattle. On Tuesday, those rules were finally updated.

For Yakama Nation, green energy projects echo colonization