I have read a couple articles recently about The Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and their recent litigation suit.  One of the articles that lays it out very well is by Warren Cornwall. The Puget Soundkeeper Alliance is a group in the Puget Sound that uses the citizen lawsuit provision in the Clean Water Act to sue [...]

If you are interested in getting involved with the Puget Sound, but do not know where to start, People for Puget Sound are hosting some events this month.  People for Puget Sound is a “citizens’ group established in 1991 by Kathy Fletcher to protect and restore the health of our land and waters through education and [...]

I have recently read an interesting article about a long-time dispute that I had no idea was going on.  The article was in the Seattle Times by Michelle Ma.  
For the past 15 years there has been a dispute between a “coalition of neighbors numbering in the hundreds” and Taylor Shellfish.  Taylor Shellfish is a [...]

An event is coming up at the flagship Rei to remember the tragedy of the Exxon Valdez, the worst oil spill in America’s history. It is being put on by the People for Puget Sound. They are inviting Natalie Fobes, a Seattle based photographer, to speak. She was one of the first photographers [...]

By Sound News reporter Erin Flaherty
I just read an old article I found to be very interesting by Robert McClure.  It talks about how in the Puget Sound, the shrimp and prawn population is booming.  This is great news to the local shrimping vessels in the area.  It is not all good news, however.  The [...]

      In the town of Monroe, Washington, a group of students enrolled in a Global Action class.  Their teacher divided the class into groups and had them all do on protecting our water.  One group decided to do a website on the pollution going on in Puget Sound.  It comes full with information on the [...]

         A couple days ago I attended the Science Conference at the Convention Center in Seattle.  One part of the conference was a poster event, where different organizations and action groups made posters explaining their group and their cause.  I stumbled on one I found to be interesting about a group named REEF.  After reading [...]

           At the urging of environmentalist, some state lawmakers brought Legislation into Washington’s house and Senate on January 20th that would require cruise ships, cargo vessels, and oil tankers to pay for a permanent tug boat at the strait of Juan De Fuca. The rescue tug started off being stationed at [...]