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When Maul Foster & Alongi, Inc. (MFA) was established in 1996, we were primarily a company that provided site characterization, remediation, and engineering services. In the midst of our 14th year in business, we have retained these core services, while changing in exciting and progressive ways. As a result of our research and interaction with our clients, we have made investments in our business that now allow us to offer economic development, landscape architecture, planning, sustainability, Geographic Information Systems (GIS),

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Northwest Environmental Business Council (NEBC) recently held a widely attended conference at Sea-Tac titled Managing Stormwater in Washington. Over 200 attendees from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia came to hear a variety of topics on stormwater management, policy, permitting, and treatment technology. Even though the title focused on Washington, the conference held a broad appeal throughout the region.

The reality in the stormwater permitting arena is that environmental groups have chosen to take a major role in t

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I am an environmental polluter. I drive my non-hybrid vehicle to work every day. I use incandescent bulbs in my house. I forget my reusable bags when I go to the grocery store. I fly a couple times each year. I don’t compost my food scraps. I refuse to opt in to PGE’s renewable energy options. I print documents that I may read only once. There are other transgressions, I’m sure.

I’m starting to think a little more critically about my behaviors, though, and why I do what I do. I just completed a course taught by Brian Day through th