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ClimateDecarbonizing CascadiaEnvironment

Cascadia’s climate champions learn they can win at the local level

Acting on international calls to freeze fossil fuel infrastructure, citizen activists working with environmental justice…
Peter Fairley
Peter FairleyNovember 10, 2021
A red truck in front of a diesel sign.ClimateEnvironment

Climate-friendly fuels again face a Democrat’s opposition in Olympia

For third time, lawmakers hope to restrict greenhouse gases escaping tailpipes The annual push in…
Levi Pulkkinen
Levi PulkkinenMarch 19, 2021
Smoke stacks in a smoggy sky.Climate

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…
Levi Pulkkinen
Levi PulkkinenMarch 12, 2021
ClimateDecarbonizing CascadiaEnvironment

Visualizing Climate-Vulnerable Communities

Mapping programs in Cascadia show how inequities extend to climate, pollution risks   At least…
Peter Fairley
Peter FairleyFebruary 24, 2021
A photo of a mother sitting on a couch indoors, holding her child and kissing her forehead.ClimateEnvironmentUrban sustainability

Fix the climate while solving the housing crisis? Olympia’s trying

Since mid-January, Washington legislators have put forward dozens of bills aimed at the climate crisis…
Levi Pulkkinen
Levi PulkkinenFebruary 19, 2021
ClimateEnvironmentGovernment

Outdated sewage treatment is suffocating fish in Puget Sound

Inadequately treated human waste from 79 sewage treatment plants is an important and growing cause…
Allegra Abramo
Allegra AbramoDecember 7, 2020
ClimateEnvironmentGovernmentInvestigative Reports

Trump administration buries dozens of clean energy studies

The Trump administration has bottled up at least 46 studies by government energy researchers detailing…
Peter Fairley
Peter FairleyOctober 26, 2020
ClimateEnvironmentSmoky Skies Altered LivesWildfires

With nearly 1 million homes at risk, Washington is losing the wildfire fight

In Washington state, nearly 1 million homes sit near forests threatened by seasonal wildfires. And…
Levi Pulkkinen
Levi PulkkinenOctober 19, 2020
ClimateEnvironmentSmoky Skies Altered LivesWildfires

Farmworkers forced to put harvest over health during wildfires

As wildfires increasingly become the norm, farmworkers work in hazardous smoke conditions up and down…
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Mara Kardas-NelsonOctober 6, 2020
One firefighter confronts burning landscape with hoseClimateSmoky Skies Altered LivesWildfires

Overstretched wildland firefighters risk lung, heart maladies

Wildland firefighters battle increasingly long and hostile fire seasons and often rely on makeshift cloth…
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Mara Kardas-NelsonSeptember 28, 2020
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