Environmental Justice Arrives in Washington State Law
Communities closest to pollution have sounded the alarm for decades. This year, Olympia finally said: We hear you.
By
Erin Wong
5/17/2021 at 9:47am
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Rosalinda Guillen has been organizing for labor rights and food sovereignty in the Skagit Valley for decades.Â
When she was a girl, Rosalinda Guillen could reach into the Swinomish Channel and bring up a net full of smelt. These days, the fish trickle by in small schools. Guillen, nearing 70, watches increasingly dry summers in the Skagit Valley. When rain comes, it's often a deluge: Farmworkers slip on their way to pick berries, rushing before they're ruined in the downpour.