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2024 Stand for Our Sound Awards
At Communities for a Healthy Bay, we are unwavering in our mission to protect Commencement Bay, the waters of the South Sound, and the diversity of life they sustain. One of the key expressions of our dedication is the annual Stand for Our Sound awards ceremony – an event that highlights the inspiring individuals, groups, and businesses in the South Sound committed to protecting and enhancing our treasured bay and surrounding waterways.

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All documents can be found on Ecology’s Occidental Chemical Site Documents webpage, which also includes:

CHB will help notify the public of any upcoming meetings. So far, the only scheduled hearing is:

  • March 6th 2024, 4:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Public Notice: Occidental Chemical Superfund Site Public Comment Period

The Washington State Department of Ecology has just released several documents for public review and comment regarding the Occidental Chemical Superfund site in Tacoma, WA. This site (Oxy Chem) has been on the federal Superfund list since the 1980s and has been awaiting significant cleanup for many years. As Communities for a Healthy Bay (CHB) works to review these documents and offer substantive comments, we encourage community members and those living nearby to voice their support for a cleanup plan that prioritizes human and environmental health rather than the overall cost to the company responsible for the pollution in the first place. You can find our previous work on ensuring a robust cleanup plan for this site on CHB’s Occidental Chemical webpage.

This public comment period runs from December 18th 2023 – March 29th 2024, 11:59 a.m. and addresses the following documents:

What We Do

Bay Patrol

As the only environmental organization with a patrol vessel in the South Sound, Communities for a Healthy Bay has a unique ability to quickly identify and tackle pollution that would otherwise go unnoticed or unchecked. Bay Patrol is supported by contracts with the City of Tacoma and works closely with the Department of Ecology, the United States Coast Guard, and other state & local agencies. 

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Superfund Cleanups

The very core of our work is mobilizing the community to push for the effective cleanup of toxic contamination in and around Commencement Bay. While there is no doubt the bay is cleaner today than ever before, there is still much work to be done.

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Climate Change

Climate change isn’t just a fact, it’s the reality we are facing today. To stop it, we need to drastically reduce the amount of pollution we create. That’s why we’re working to place a temporary freeze on future fossil fuel facilities and expansions in the Tacoma Tideflats.

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Education

To achieve a cleaner future, we’re working closely with local classrooms to empower the next generation of environmental stewards through youth education efforts like our Student Stewards Conservation Program.

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Science Based Organization

Communities for a Healthy Bay engages people

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News Updates

November 27, 2024

Policy Update: Tree Canopy Health and Home in Tacoma (HIT) Phase Two Amendments

On Tuesday Nov 19th, the Tacoma City Council voted unanimously to pass 14 proposed amendments to residential zoning policies under Home in Tacoma Phase Two. While we recognize the Council’s efforts to balance housing affordability and density, we believe these amendments fell...

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June 26, 2024

Community Alert – City of Tacoma Charter Review

Review our factsheet for the 2024 City of Tacoma Charter Review currently underway. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT [email protected]

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June 26, 2024

My Body My Strength 3-Day Camp

Register today to attend our upcoming EJC.

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Communities for a Healthy Bay cannot exist in a vacuum – we must collaborate, mobilize and genuinely listen to the community. We recognize that we all want a cleaner, healthier environment because we all share this watershed and experience its environmental burdens and benefits. Communities for a Healthy Bay can only meaningfully achieve our mission through genuine partnerships with our community.

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We acknowledge that we are on the traditional homelands of the Puyallup Tribe. The Puyallup people have lived on and stewarded these lands since the beginning of time, and continue to do so today. We recognize that this land acknowledgement is one small step toward true allyship and we commit to uplifting the voices, experiences, and histories of the Indigenous people of this land and beyond.

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