More than 200 Cruise Ships headed for Seattle
Before the end of the month, a 780-foot visitor will arrive at Pier 66. And Holland America’s ms Amsterdam is just the first of many—more than 200 other cruise vessels will dock in Seattle this spring...
View ArticlePort of Seattle offers Earth Day education
Who says fieldtrips to celebrate Earth Day are just for elementary school kids?One week after the release of their 2009-2010 Annual Environmental Report, the Port of Seattle gave adults a chance to...
View ArticleInvestigateWest and KCTS 9 co-produce "Breathing Uneasy," a look at the air...
“Breathing Uneasy” is the result of a collaboration between InvestigateWest and KCTS 9. Veteran environmental reporters Robert McClure of InvestigateWest and Jenny Cunningham of KCTS 9 spent six months...
View ArticleShould Port of Seattle hasten air-pollution cleanup?
Our recent collaboration with KCTS Channel 9 on worrisome air pollution levels in south Seattle looked hard at the role played by the 1,800 to 2,000 truck trips that do business at the Port of Seattle...
View ArticlePort of Seattle won't speed up cleanup of trucks' air pollution
The Port of Seattle got a good look this week at who really likes the agency’s multi-faceted plans to reduce port-related air pollution: Trucking companies, shipping companies, the national ports...
View ArticleActivists, truckers, religious leaders call for Port of Seattle to treat...
Singing the African-American spiritual “Wade in the Water,” activists and religious leaders and truck drivers tried Wednesday to breach security at a downtown conference of seaport authorities to...
View ArticleProtesters attack Port of Seattle salaries, seek better conditions for...
Against the backdrop of a towering asthma-medicine inhaler, about 250 protesters demonstrated downtown on Thursday*, saying the Port of Seattle should do a better job of cleaning up air pollution,...
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