New Alliance Climate Policy: ‘Reduce and Reinvest’
For more than a year, members of the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy have been working together to devise a policy that will reduce climate pollution and accelerate our move to clean energy. We are...
View ArticleClimate Change: 3 Things the State’s New Clean Air Rule Must Include
In the new draft, it’s critical: That it be modeled on similar successful programs in other places, like California. It must not inadvertently create incentives for business to move jobs and emissions...
View ArticleThere Will Only Be One Carbon Tax on the Fall Ballot, But the Climate Schism...
The deep ideological rift in Washington’s environmental movement remains. To many economists, activists, and climate scientists, supporting I-732 only makes sense. "It is utter insanity for anyone who...
View ArticleThe Science Behind Turning Out Environmental Voters
Environmental voters are the great value proposition of 2016. Since environmental voters often have such clear choices on their ballots, campaigns and advocacy groups don’t need to persuade...
View ArticleMomentum for Climate Action
As our Bright Future project demonstrates, and our December 2015 report The Urban Clean Energy Revolution describes, nowhere is the momentum for this transition more evident than in our cities. The...
View ArticleWashington State Readies Revised CO2 Market Plan, Mulls Limiting Use of...
Washington state will next month unveil its revised CO2 market plan, with officials considering whether to put limits on the use of out-of-state credits, exclude power generators, and set...
View ArticleEnvironmental Study Leaves Longview Coal Port Bloodied But Still Alive
Coal dust, greenhouse gas emissions, noise and traffic congestion are among the environmental impacts from the proposed coal export terminal in Longview, Washington, according to a draft report...
View ArticleState, Not EPA, Should Fine-Tune Fish Consumption Rule, Say Cities, Industry
Some of the comments to Ecology expressed frustration with what they see as politics taking precedence over science. Engineering Superintendent James Miller with city of Everett claimed certain groups...
View ArticleCommunities of Color Should Lead on Environmental Fight
On Earth Day this year, we released the City of Seattle Equity and Environment Agenda, a blueprint to advance and embed racial equity in the city’s environmental work. In the Agenda, the Community...
View ArticleMandatory Testing Of Lead In Schools Never Funded
Gov. Jay Inslee issued a directive Monday that orders the Department of Health to come up with new cost estimates to pay for mandatory testing in schools. The directive also requires health officials...
View ArticleState AG Considers Legal Options to Protect Hanford Workers
Washington state’s attorney general is exploring further legal options to keep Hanford workers safe from chemical vapors, he said in a statement released early Tuesday evening. The announcement came...
View ArticleAG Targets 90 Conservative Groups in Controversial Climate Change Probe
The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands is targeting dozens of conservative and libertarian organizations in a racketeering lawsuit against climate change skeptics that has been widely...
View ArticleJudge Rejects Feds’ Latest Plan To Help Salmon Survive Columbia River Dams
In a ruling Wednesday, Federal District Court Judge Michael Simon rejected the government's latest plan for protecting salmon in the Columbia River Basin, saying the system of fish-blocking dams “cries...
View ArticleState-Tribes Dispute Shuts Down Puget Sound Salmon Fishing Season, For Now
For the first time in 32 years the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) was unable to agree with Puget Sound treaty tribes over the details of a required federal application to share the...
View ArticleFor EPA, Blowback On “What’s Upstream?” Carries A Familiar Refrain
The blowback toward the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Region 10 northwest office is growing, because EPA grant money was used in Washington state for political lobbying that targeted...
View ArticleArmy Corps Rejects Permit for Coal Terminal at Cherry Point
The proposed coal terminal for Cherry Point is likely dead after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied a needed permit Monday, May 9. “It’s truly disturbing that the Army Corps took the unprecedented...
View ArticleFeds Move Forward Rejecting Southeast Idaho Dam Project
Federal authorities have issued a final environmental impact statement recommending denial of a proposed dam in southeast Idaho on the Bear River. The next step in the process is for the Federal Energy...
View ArticleCarbon Dioxide Emissions Keep Falling in the U.S.
Though the levels increased slightly in 2013 and 2014, last year’s drop is in line with the gradual decline that’s been occurring for a decade. The nearly 5.3 billion metric tons of energy-related...
View ArticleCoal Dust Threatens Cascadia’s Water and Wildlife
When it comes to coal in the water, what we don’t know might hurt us. Although there’s not much published scientific research on the impacts of coal and coal dust in the environment, the potential for...
View ArticleWashington’s Mass Timber Opportunity
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