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Why Renewable Electricity Powers Decarbonization — and Pays Off

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InvestigateWest selected as member of national Covering Climate Collaborative

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Good News Thursday: Reva & David Logan Foundation Awards $80,000 Grant to InvestigateWest

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Washington’s environmental laws don’t protect communities of color. Will the Legislature fix that?

With strong mandates stripped out, landmark environmental justice legislation approaches passage After decades of inaction…
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One home, many generations: Washington vaccine priority addresses COVID risk among families

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Allowing doctors to act when pregnancies go wrong

Legislation would ensure doctors at Catholic hospitals could offer medically necessary abortions when emergencies arise…
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Climate-friendly fuels again face a Democrat’s opposition in Olympia

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Washington climate activists disagree about how to cut carbon

Competing efforts to enact landmark climate-change legislation have fractured the state’s environmental coalition and Olympia’s…
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Levi PulkkinenMarch 12, 2021
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Oil tanker traffic could endanger Indigenous way of life

While most protests against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion are happening on the land, the…
Braela Kwan
Braela KwanMarch 10, 2021
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Fighting British Columbia’s pipelines to the last mile

A network of eco-activists, local governments, economists and lawyers are fighting new pipeline infrastructure under…
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Braela KwanMarch 10, 2021
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Climbing prescription prices have Washington state looking to get into the drug business

Responding to federal inaction on pharmaceutical costs, lawmakers appear poised to give state broad authority…
Levi Pulkkinen
Levi PulkkinenMarch 5, 2021
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Will race, income inequalities trip up Cascadia’s fight against climate change?

  The heavy wind woke Niria Garcia about 5 a.m. It whipped against her home,…
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