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Climate

When the heat is unbearable but there’s nowhere to go

How last year’s record-breaking heat wave caused misery and chaos for Washington’s incarcerated population —…
Sarah Sax
Sarah SaxJune 1, 2022
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
ClimateGovernmentSmoky Skies Altered LivesWildfires

As wildfire smoke seeps indoors, is government doing enough to respond?

Editor's note: Wildfires are growing in frequency and intensity, threatening our landscape, our lifestyle and…
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Mara Kardas-NelsonSeptember 21, 2020
ClimateGovernmentSmoky Skies Altered LivesWildfires

Can U.S. health authorities learn from BC’s experience with wildfire smoke?

British Columbia health specialists are ahead of their counterparts in the U.S. when it comes…
Mara Kardas-Nelson
Mara Kardas-NelsonSeptember 21, 2020
Environment

What’s on your burger wrapper? In your drinking water? Will legislators ban cancer-promoting chemicals?

Environmentalists and industry representatives are battling in Olympia over whether to ban chemicals used widely…
Annica Crouse
Annica CrouseFebruary 6, 2018
Environment

Port truck drivers organize walkout as clean-air legislation looms

Short-haul truck drivers who pick up and deliver containers at the ports of Seattle and…
Julie Davidow
Julie DavidowFebruary 5, 2018
Environment

Can environment break through Olympia’s school-funding logjam?

Should fighting climate change translate into spending more on education? That’s what Washington Gov. Jay…
Adiel Kaplan
Adiel KaplanJanuary 13, 2017
Newsroom

Help us scrutinize enviro politics in Olympia

Help InvestigateWest scrutinize what the Washington Legislature is doing on environmental legislation during the 2017…
InvestigateWest
InvestigateWestJanuary 9, 2017
EnvironmentInvestigative Reports

Activists, truckers, religious leaders call for Port of Seattle to treat truck drivers better

Singing the African-American spiritual “Wade in the Water,” activists and religious leaders and truck drivers…
Robert McClure
Robert McClureSeptember 15, 2011
Dateline Earth

Cherry Point coal-export port hits two setbacks on environmental front

The controversial proposal for a major coal-export port to be built at Cherry Point near…
Robert McClure
Robert McClureAugust 2, 2011
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