Coming Attractions Green Forests, Clear Waters - and Pitchforks

April 15, 2009

“Next few decades, if we don't do anything, people will say--'Your generation lost it. You weren't willing to step up and save it”
Ron Sims, King County chief executive

Question: Is this battle coming soon to a metro area near you?

Place: Puget Sound, lying off Seattle's coast

Issue: To help the Sound recover from decades of pollution that's placed its fish and wildlife in peril, the region passed laws limiting land development.

But some really angry rural property owners are pushing back.

The clip's from Poisoned Waters. -- correspondent Hedrick Smith's two-hour report coming this Tuesday, Read more--