Puget Sound
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An unlikely resistance surges against Trump’s clean water threats
Legislators set aside partisan politics to protect the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, and other regional cleanup efforts.
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Puget Sound saviors wage war on pet poop
Runoff and dog poop are killing Puget Sound. On Sept. 17, a diverse coalition of 57 cities, counties, businesses, universities, and advocacy groups launched a campaign called Puget Sound Starts Here to try and deep six these and other threats to Washington State’s vast inland waterway. (Funding for the effort is coming from state and […]
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If the site is right, researchers could bring tidal energy to Puget Sound
The problem with wind power—one of them, anyway—lies in the phrase “fickle as the wind.” Ocean tides, by comparison, are a paragon of reliability. They come and go twice a day, like clockwork. Seasonally, they’re strongest at the solstices in June and December and weakest at the equinoxes in March and September. That predictability is […]