It’s relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

Washington’s approach to salmon recovery is a national model. We were the first in the history of the federal Endangered Species Act to have local communities statewide write recovery plans and set priorities for saving...

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

Why argue about things you can’t prove?

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

Why argue about things you can’t prove? We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere. There are all kinds of things we can...

There are all kinds of things we can do right now, and we ought to be taking those steps.