SEATTLE, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) today announced an environmental cleanup and habitat restoration project that will create nearly five acres of contiguous intertidal wetlands, restore more than half a mile of waterway and establish a resting area for migratory fish in and along the lower Duwamish Waterway. "We are committed to restoring habitat along the Duwamish and conducting environmental work that is vital to the ecosystem, nearby wetlands, the Puget Sound and to our community," said Mary Armstrong, Boeing vice president of Environment, Health and Safety.

By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times Dec. 11--"Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle" by Matthew Klingle Yale University Press, 368 pp., $30 It's easy for Seattleites to lapse into smugness about their environmental credentials.

By Jonathan Martin, Seattle Times Nov. 6--The Seattle City Council will set aside $400,000 to settle a yearlong dispute over environmental damage wrought on a beloved creek during the construction of a new firefighter-training center in the city's South Park neighborhood.

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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times Aug. 30--Environmentalists and community groups Wednesday asked the state to step in and block the city of Seattle's construction work at a fire training center near South Park, the latest round in a yearslong feud over the city's treatment of nearby Hamm Creek.