In years past, the environmental community has picked four select areas to lobby, figuring that a targeted, we're-not-asking-for-everything-just-the-important-stuff approach is likely to yield the best results. This year, it seems, they hit that mark and much more.

Protecting city trees, an enviro priority. Jim Bryant/P-I

On Friday a bill giving Washington the strongest toy safety rules in the nation cleared the Senate after we were told HB 2647 was close to going down in flames.

The Legislature came up with $3.65 million in its supplemental budget to pay for a year-round rescue tug at Neah Bay to prevent oil-spilling shipwrecks (see this blog).

HB 2514 passed, which sets up stronger protections for orcas by keeping boats away from them and setting up penalties for those in violation.

And those aren't even the items on the priority list, which had a clean sweep:

* The Evergreen Communities Act is on its way to the governor for approval. HB 2844 will help cities and communities take an inventory of their "urban forest" and develop plans for increasing tree canopy, which benefits climate change, reduces polluting runoff and provides habitat for birds and other wildlife. (My story here.)

* The Local Farms-Healthy Kids Act was just approved. SB 6483 should increase the amount of locally-grown produce that's part of school lunches. (See this great piece by P-I colleague Jennifer Langston.)

* Two priority pieces of legislation dealing with climate change passed in this short 60-day session. HB 2815 makes statewide greenhouse gas reductions binding and supports more clean energy jobs (my story here). SB 6580 looks at land use impacts on climate change (e.g. the effects of sprawl versus high density housing).

If you want to know more about the legislation, go here and search for the bill number.

What I'm not 100 percent sure about is where the funding stands for these various programs -- the budget is still being hammered out, hopefully by the session deadline, which is Thursday. That key detail aside, the greens must be positively giddy.

UPDATE
I failed to mention one of the more contentious enviro battles in Olympia this year -- the fight over the proposed expansion of a gravel mine on Maury Island. After squeaking through the Senate, SB 6777 (a measure that would have held up and possibly prevented the expansion because of a debate over who owned the gravel, died in the House). (See this interesting look at the matter by my P-I colleagues.)