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Author: Kayla Snider

How connecting children to nature is good for both

NATIONAL – Plenty of older Americans hold fond childhood memories of climbing trees, catching frogs, and engaging in endless hours of tag or hide-and-seek with friends. Most children today, though, spend much less time...

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Flavored Vapor Product Ban Update

OLYMPIA – In October 2019, the State Board of Health passed emergency rules banning sales of flavored vapor products in Washington, followed by a vitamin E acetate emergency ban in November. The emergency bans responded to...

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USDA kicks off plant health awareness efforts

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Plants make the oxygen we breathe and give us 80 percent of the food we eat. But plants are under attack by invasive pests. These pests destroy up to 40 percent of the world’s food crops and cause $220 billion...

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