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Environment

Reporting on the past, present and future of the environment in the Northwest.

Silhouettes of power lines against an orange sunset.Decarbonizing CascadiaEnvironment

Can the West learn to share renewable power?

Insights: Proponents of a heftier, coordinated grid assess its importance — and barriers to their…
Peter Fairley
Peter FairleyAugust 18, 2021
A photo of farmland and mountains in the background.Environment

Fish pay the price for failed water management

Two species of the bottom-feeding sucker fish that inhabit the Upper Klamath Lake and nearby…
Kendra Chamberlain
Kendra ChamberlainJuly 30, 2021
A person stands in a plain with windmills visible behind their back at sunset.Decarbonizing CascadiaEnvironment

A stronger electricity grid is crucial to cutting carbon. Does that make it green?

Three viewpoints: A proposal to lay cables beneath the Columbia River is met with skepticism…
Peter Fairley
Peter FairleyJuly 21, 2021
Three people in high-visibility vests and bright orange hard hats pull plants from the ground in a forest.Decarbonizing CascadiaEnvironment

10 jobs that will help shape a zero-emissions future

An economy based on healing the climate could spawn new livelihoods across Cascadia.   By…
Michelle Gamage
Michelle GamageJune 16, 2021
Decarbonizing CascadiaEnvironmentGovernment

At the Duwamish longhouse, a law is signed requiring environmental justice from state agencies

By Jack Russillo/South Seattle Emerald This story is contributed by The South Seattle Emerald, a…
InvestigateWest
InvestigateWestJune 2, 2021
A hand next to crushed acorn seeds.Decarbonizing Cascadia

Seed the North: Fighting Climate Change, One Sprout at a Time

Can an innovative approach to reforestation take root in British Columbia? This report is contributed…
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Amanda Follett HosgoodMay 12, 2021
A photo taken from a balcony in a lawmaking chamber.Decarbonizing Cascadia

Can Oregon Democrats learn from B.C.’s conservative-backed carbon tax?

After two years of defeat in Salem, carbon pricing still lacks support from business and…
Erik Neumann
Erik NeumannMay 10, 2021
Smoke stacks in a smoggy sky.EnvironmentGovernment

Behold Washington’s ‘new beginning’ in its fight against climate change

As the dust settles in Olympia, the state finally has embraced cap and trade, electric…
Levi Pulkkinen
Levi PulkkinenMay 3, 2021
A person pumps gas into a semitruck.Decarbonizing Cascadia

Cleaning Up What Can’t Plug In

Cascadia needs cleaner fuels to start decarbonizing heavy vehicles and industry. That means pushing biofuels…
Peter Fairley
Peter FairleyApril 23, 2021
Four eletrolyzers side-by-side, which look like glass boxes the size of a garden shed.Decarbonizing Cascadia

Using hydrogen to back up the grid

In the spring when snow melts and Cascadia’s rivers surge, hydropower producers are often forced…
Peter Fairley
Peter FairleyApril 23, 2021
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