National Muffin Day is observed not as a food holiday about consuming but as a day about giving back to communities. Each year people around the world bake muffins, with some organizing big baking parties. Known as Muffinteers, handing the muffins out to people experiencing homelessness and donating to a homelessness cause. The organizers of the day incentivize participation by donating to homeless causes for each person who bakes and gives. They suggest that people "give a dozen," meaning they give to a charity in $12 increments to symbolize the twelve muffins of a muffin tin.
As
U.S. abandons climate fight, Washington state feels the heat
to do more
Washington state’s push for a rapid switch to electric vehicles is
in jeopardy— with its ultimate fate likely to be decided in the
courts.
Trump
budget maintains many Columbia River salmon, environment
programs — despite dramatic proposed cuts
Columbia River salmon recovery programs fared better in the 2026
federal budget than tribes, advocates, bureaucrats and biologists
feared.
Feds
launch whale-safe fishing gear strategy to try to prevent
entanglements
Entanglement is a top threat for all large baleen whales on
Canada’s coasts, including humpbacks, minke, blue and fin whales.
Should
600-year-old oaks be cut down in Tacoma for a new storage
facility?
The trees at 3802 S. 74th St. will be cut down if the city of
Tacoma approves the landowner’s permits to build a new
self-storage facility on the one-acre, triangular site.
Bayer
agrees to $7.25 billion proposed settlement over thousands of
Roundup cancer lawsuits
Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients
announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve
thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn
people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.
WA
climate funds needed to plug huge budget gap, lawmaker says
Lawmakers can’t find a better way to fill part of Washington’s
perennial budget gap than by dipping into the billions raised by
the state’s Climate Commitment Act.
New Southern Resident orca calf spotted in L pod
The Center for Whale Research spotted a new Southern Resident orca calf
traveling with L pod on Feb. 16 in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Designated L129, the calf was seen with two females, the 49‑year‑old L55
and her daughter L103. Researchers said it is too early to know which
whale is the mother.
Lawsuits challenge renewed push for oil drilling in Alaska petroleum reserve and upcoming lease sale
Conservation organizations and an Iñupiat group filed legal challenges
Tuesday to the Trump administration’s renewed push for oil and gas
development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and an upcoming
lease sale that they say improperly makes available ecologically
sensitive lands that have been long protected.
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