Fair Funding for Stormwater Cleanup

"It's a huge challenge to clean up the nasty water that gushes through gutters and into Washington's rivers and bays. But cleaning it is essential to reaching the region's goals for saving Puget Sound.

Legislation was just proposed in Olympia that takes an important step towards solving our stormwater woes. House Bill 3181 and Senate Bill 6851, called the "Clean Water Act of 2010," would boost a tax that's already added to petroleum, pesticides, and other chemicals that are fouling waterways from the Spokane River to Lake Chelan to the Duwamish River....."