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If you are buying or building a new house, or simply remodeling the one you have, your first stop these days should be the Tacoma Recovery and Transfer Center if you are…

Tacoma Environmental Services Project Manager Mary Henley beams like a proud parent when speaking about her baby’s 12th birthday. And why shouldn’t she, Henley and her cohorts have taken one of the…

aerial It’s safe to say Citizens or a Healthy Bay knows a thing or two because they’ve seen a thing or two when it comes to Commencement Bay. That’s because Citizens for…

There’s a lot more to dog poop than meets the eye. Not only are dog droppings unsightly, they are a leading contributor to water pollution and can spread diseases. “It is a…

As kids growing up in Tacoma in the 50’s and early 60’s, we didn’t think twice about driving cars that either burned oil or leaked badly. We didn’t pay much attention to…

Like they say at FixCarLeaks.org, “every drip counts” when it comes to reducing the pollution in storm water in Tacoma and surrounding Pierce County. After all, most experts agree that oils and…

What nature took millions of years to create took man only 100 years to greatly alter a precious ecosystem that local efforts hope to restore in Tacoma over the next 10 to…