March 24, 2020 
Dear Port of Seattle Commissioners, 
We are all coping with the ongoing changes to our previous routines, brought about by this
pandemic coronavirus which affected our local region first in the U.S., and so especially
appreciate your commitment to continue business as possible within these restricted and fluid
conditions, and to continue to offer transparency and access at your public commission
meetings. 
As we know that someday our economic and social structure will return to a new normal, we
believe we can prepare for a better new normal, in terms of sustainability and equity. And as
the old normal had airline operation emissions producing more climate pollution than most
national economies, with an estimate of a tripling by 2050, we have the opportunity now to
commit to a better standard. 
In short, we are asking the Port of Seattle to consider: 
Sustainability  the correct and complete calculations of emissions of fuel used for all airport
and maritime operations, with a plan for reduction in compliance with CORSIA (see below). 
Equity  serving all local communities first and equally, with no harm ensuing from benefits for
one at the expense of the other 
The Port is to be commended for having an Energy and Sustainability Committee, with priorities
focusing on reducing GHG emissions and community impacts, but the goals are not high
enough. The Port is to be commended for supporting a Clean Fuels Standard for our State.
However, without addressing all of the fuels we use in our State, which is a high import/export
economy, with all the people and cargo which go in and out of it, the support is again, just not
enough.
The Port of Seattle needs to consider its mission to be more like the ports around the State,
which is that the Port is a "server" of our local communities  all of our communities  and not
a "driver". And while the rest of the State needs some of the services of this airport, they don't
necessarily need them to be here in King County. To bring this focus of serving the local Puget
Sound region first and include the impacts and costs on those businesses and lives who are not
using the air or shipping operations of the Port of Seattle, but are adversely affected by them,
would be an equitable and fair re-organizing of priorities going forward. 
Thank you for your attention to the opportunities to change "business as usual" to a more
sustainable and equitable world. Working on protections for our immediate harmful threats
can be part of the same preparations for protections from an even greater harm in the future. 
Anne Kroeker and Richard Leeds 
Des Moines, WA


https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/Pages/default.aspx 
"Improving the environmental performance of aviation is a challenge ICAO takes very
seriously. In  2004,  the  35th  Session  of  the  ICAO  Assembly  adopted  three  major
environmental goals, which have been reaffirmed in all subsequent Assembly Sessions: 
a. to limit or reduce the number of people affected by significant aircraft noise; 
b. to limit or reduce the impact of aviation emissions on local air quality; and 
c. to limit or reduce the impact of aviation greenhouse gas emissions on the global
climate."