BREMERTON — Walk any Puget Sound beach and you're bound to find plastic garbage — a soda bottle, a chunk of foam, maybe a dog's lost chew toy. But that's just the plastic pollution you can see.

After that, though, it dropped to 81 by 2001. The whales’ decline mirrored a drop in the Puget Sound chinook salmon population from the mid-1990s into the early 2000s.

Southern Resident killer whales sometimes show up in the Narrows Strait and other South Puget Sound waters. Fox Island resident Cheryl Nelson photographed these two while boating in 2017.

Boatyards pollute toxic metals copper, zinc into Puget Sound through stormwater. Ecology tries to regulate pollution, but it is financially difficult for boatyards.

Boatyards pollute toxic metals copper, zinc into Puget Sound through stormwater. Ecology tries to regulate pollution, but it is financially difficult for boatyards.

Here’s the problem: Human sewage discharged to Puget Sound still contains pollution, including nitrogen. Excess nitrogen worsens algae blooms that can reduce the amount of available oxygen in ...

Audit looks at missed deadlines for Puget Sound Washington pollution harming salmon. Rep. Newhouse criticizes focus on Snake River dams.

When the pandemic first hit in early 2020, people stocked up on face masks and gloves. And then people tossed those masks and gloves on the ground. And eventually, it all ended up in our sewage lines.

EDMONDS — It was a beautiful day with the sun glimmering on the surface of Puget Sound. Looks can be deceiving, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday. “It looks drop-dead gorgeous,” Gregoire ...

local Barge fire pollution worries Puget Sound protectors The recent barge fire on the Duwamish River has water quality activists demanding answers about the toxins released into the river.

Over the past six years, air pollution from cargo-moving equipment at Puget Sound ports has dropped significantly, according to a report released this week by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency ...