News
Sep
11
September 11, 2025
New StoryMap Explores the Link Between Pollution and Orcas in Commencement Bay
For more than 30 years, Communities for a Healthy Bay’s (CHB) Bay Patrol has documented pollution across Commencement Bay. Now, for the first time, those community-driven observations have…
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May
19
May 19, 2025
Dirty Dozen Report Released
New Report Flags Industrial Facilities of Growing Concern in South Sound: Communities for a Healthy Bay Identifies Ongoing Pollution, Gaps in Enforcement, and Environmental Injustice Tacoma,…
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Apr
16
April 16, 2025
Zero-Emission Truck Roadmap
Communities for a Healthy Bay proudly joined a diverse coalition to create the Zero-Emission Truck Roadmap—a strategy to eliminate diesel truck pollution at Puget Sound ports by 2050. Frontline…
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Feb
11
February 11, 2025
Clean Water, Clean Beer: A Collaboration with Silver City Brewery
PRESS RELEASE CLEAN WATER. CLEAN BEER: SILVER CITY BREWERY & COMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY COLLABORATE TO PROTECT LOCAL WATERWAYS WASHINGTON, [02/12/25] — Great…
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Nov
26
November 26, 2024
Policy Update: Tree Canopy Health and Home in Tacoma (HIT) Phase Two Amendments
November 27, 2024 On Tuesday Nov 19th, the Tacoma City Council voted unanimously to pass 14 proposed amendments to residential zoning policies under Home in Tacoma Phase…
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Jun
25
June 25, 2024
Community Alert – Darling Ingredients Update
June 26, 2024 On June 6, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) posted their Final Order of Approval and responses to public comments…
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Jun
25
June 25, 2024
Community Alert – City of Tacoma Charter Review
June 26, 2024 Review our factsheet for the 2024 City of Tacoma Charter Review currently underway. City of Tacoma Charter Review Factsheet For more information, contact…
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Dec
19
December 19, 2023
Community Alert – Darling Ingredients
December 20, 2023 Darling Ingredients is trying to reopen its animal rendering facility in the Port of Tacoma. This is the same facility that engulfed Tacoma in a putrid odor…
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Dec
19
December 19, 2023
Pacific Producer – Communities for a Healthy Bay
December 20, 2023 Ensuring Environmental Safety: State Takes Action After 18 Months We are pleased to see the state finally taking care of the Pacific Producer and its associated pollution…
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Oct
23
October 23, 2023
‘We see this happen over and over:’ Burning of fishing boat on Commencement Bay raises concerns
October 24, 2023 TACOMA, Wash. — The burning of the Kodiak Enterprise has sparked concerns across Commencement Bay in Tacoma. The massive fishing vessel is owned by…
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