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  • Published on June 5, 2025 - 15:00 GMT

    Appellant in One Seattle Plan FEIS Appeal Says Dismissal Paves Over Orca Recovery Efforts

    SEATTLE, WA, UNITED STATES, June 5, 2025 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The City of Seattle’s Hearing Examiner recently dismissed an appeal by wildlife advocate Jennifer Godfrey concerning the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the City’s growth plan, the "One Seattle Plan.” Godfrey’s appeal centered on the FEIS’s failure to assess impacts to Southern Resident Killer Whales from increased polluted stormwater runoff. According to the appellant this dismissal effectively removes the public right to …

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  • Published on April 10, 2025 - 15:00 GMT

    Last Urban Conifer Grove on Private Property in Green Lake Set for Development

    Trees to be removed to build one single family home SEATTLE, WA, UNITED STATES, April 10, 2025 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Neighbors are petitioning to save the Green Lake Sequoia, a local landmark likely a century old that is one of the last 200 mature Giant Sequoias on private property in Seattle. Part of the last large conifer groves on private property in the Green Lake area, the Green Lake Sequoia–along with about 14 other trees–are set to be removed to build one single family home. “The Green Lake …

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