Hoping to make the restoration of Puget Sound into a national priority, Gov. Christine Gregoire today announced the most-ambitious plan to date to clean up toxic dumps around the Sound, prevent oil ...

An effort to protect Puget Sound's marine life has ignited a debate over a new environmental mandate that wastewater treatment plants say will cost billions and lacks clear science to back it up.

On average, each of us takes between 20,000 and 22,000 breaths each day, inhaling and exhaling about 2,000 gallons of air, which travels 1,500 miles of airways on its way to deliver oxygen throughout ...