Department of Ecology Joins Legal Challenge To Sea-Tac Third Runway Wetlands Permit

Pending in Federal court in Seattle is a challenge by Airport Communities Coalition (ACC) to a wetlands-filling permit issued last December by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  The coalition has raised several legal issues, including the failure by the Corps to include in its permit half of the important conditions that the Airport was ordered to observe by the State’s Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB), in a parallel State case.  ACC regards those omitted conditions as the most important of the 16 laid down by the Board. 

Now the Department of Ecology has joined in the federal court challenge—on the side of airport critics! More...

Supreme Court Allows 14 Environmental
Groups To Join “Dirty-fill-bill” Lawsuit

In mid-July, the Chief Justice of Washington’s Supreme Court issued an order allowing 14 environmental groups to participate, as friends of the court, in the appeal by the Port of Seattle from last August’s ruling of the Pollution Control Hearings Board. more...

Backgrounder:
Things to Watch in Upcoming
Port National Pollution Discharge
Elimination Permit

Give a hoot. Don't pollute—at least not without your National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit (NPDES). The NPDES permit is a permit that allows governments and businesses to continue polluting under certain controlled conditions set by the permit. The Port's permit expired last year and the State Department of Ecology is expected to issue a revised permit in late July or early August. More...

$1.2 Billion Runway Budget Short-changes Communities by Hundreds of Millions

A new cost estimate for the Sea-Tac third runway was presented to the Port Commission on 24 June, after four years of project creep—& project leap.

But even with a $1.2 billion spending plan, the Port is still seriously short-changing the people and communities who live under the Sea-Tac flight corridors. more...

Editorial:
Can You Afford Two Cents a Day?

Can you afford two cents a day? On average, that's what people in the airport communities have been paying to support the effort to keep the third runway from hammering their communities. more...

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