I sometimes get asked to become a member of political parties. This is an excellent example of why I don’t. Environmental activism is not about punting on issues important to the public. Once again, not sure why the Puget Sound Partnership did not step up and take a leadership role on this, rather than letting Ecology put the issue on the back burner. Leadership is needed, and this is not what it looks like.
A dispute over how much seafood people eat in Washington — and what it means for the state’s environmental regulations — will have to wait for the administration of a Gov. Jay Inslee or a Gov. Rob McKenna. Fish-consumption rates are more controversial than they sound, because of their implications for how much pollution industrial and municipal plants are allowed to discharge into lakes, rivers and Puget Sound… Jordan Schrader reports.