Advertising

The Seattle Times Company

NWjobs | NWautos | NWhomes | NWsource | Free Classifieds | seattletimes.com

The Seattle Times

Local News


Our network sites seattletimes.com | Advanced

Originally published May 8, 2007 at 12:00 AM | Page modified May 8, 2007 at 2:02 AM

E-mail E-mail article      Print Print view      Share Share

Ruckelshaus named to lead Puget Sound cleanup

Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief William Ruckelshaus has been named to chair the citizens council overseeing the state's...

Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief William Ruckelshaus has been named to chair the citizens council overseeing the state's effort to clean up Puget Sound, Gov. Christine Gregoire announced Monday.

The Puget Sound Partnership is charged with overseeing the cleanup and restoration of Puget Sound by 2020. The rest of the members of the Puget Sound Leadership Council have not yet been named.

The leadership council Ruckelshaus will head will work with a science panel and a coordinating board to craft a restoration plan by Sept. 1, 2008. A separate nonprofit also may be created to help raise public awareness and money for the effort, which could cost as much as $27 billion by 2020.

Ruckelshaus, 74, who lives in Medina, said one of the partnership's first tasks will be to inform the public that the Sound is in trouble. Despite a litany of woes facing the ecosystem, more than 70 percent of people surveyed last June said they thought the Sound was in good-to-excellent shape.

The partnership also must build collaboration for restoration of a healthy Puget Sound, said Ruckelshaus, who headed the EPA under Presidents Nixon and Reagan.

E-mail E-mail article      Print Print view      Share Share

More Local News

Is raw, unpasteurized milk safe?

New book dives into the underworld of giant-clam poaching

Proposal to boost oil tax draws foes to Olympia

Bellevue man identified as pilot killed in Morton plane crash

Danny Westneat: Free to have health care for all

More Local News headlines...

advertising


Get home delivery today!

Video

Advertising

AP Video

Entertainment | Top Video | World | Offbeat Video | Sci-Tech

Marketplace

 
Most read
Most commented
Most e-mailed
 
 

Most viewed imagesMore

Advertising