Oil Spill Responders Face Budget Cuts

Ed: Let’s hope there’s one thing we can get through this year-after-the-Gulf-Spill 1/14/11 Kitsap Sun -Oil Spill Responders Face Budget Cuts By John Stang OLYMPIA — A major oil spill from a tanker ship in Puget Sound has the potential to be a bigger disaster than the one last year in the Gulf of Mexico. [...]

Money battles ahead for Wash. environmentalists

*1/15/11 Associated Press Money battles ahead for Wash. environmentalists By GEORGE TIBBITS – Associated Press SEATTLE — Along with every other interest group, environmentalists hope the programs they’ve fought for won’t be gutted as the Legislature again tries to fix a huge deficit. Still, lobbyists and legislators say there might be a few modest victories [...]