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Washington governor isn’t falling for big geoengineering fixes 1
Posted 3 weeks ago "There is no silver bullet. There is only golden buckshot."
National Day of Action Against Coal 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago The first three days of this week are seeing a slew of activities taking on coal.
No shit

Puget Sound saviors wage war on pet poop 14
Posted 2 months ago
A diverse coalition of 57 cities, counties, businesses, universities and advocacy groups in Washington State have launched a campaign to try and save Puget Sound.
Washington warming and wildfires: The science behind the story 1
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Prison Break

Washington state prisons pursue sustainable practices, green-collar job training 5
Posted 3 months ago
Can prisons save money and the environment while rehabilitating lives? Washington's Sustainable Prisons Project aims to find out.
Everyone's got a lobbyist

Tally of interests on climate bill tops a thousand 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
More than 460 new businesses and interest groups jumped into lobbying Congress on global warming in the weeks before the House neared its historic vote on climate change legislation, a Center for Public Integrity analysis of just-disclosed lobbying records shows.
Sun city

Washington state may soon be home to world’s largest PV solar project 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Seattle is known for its gray skies, but could a town 80 miles southeast of the city provide enough solar power for 45,000 homes? The investors at Teanaway Solar Reserve are banking on it.
ACES high

Washington Republican helps swing climate bill vote 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The American Clean Energy and Security Act narrowly passed in the House late Friday thanks to eight bold Republicans who hopped the fence. One of them is Washington state's very own Dave Reichert.
Science being used as an excuse to balance budgets

Seattle and Berkeley drop biodiesel 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Here's a King 5 News video clip and here is a short article from the online Seattle PI, demonstrating how much easier it is to believe science when there's money involved.
A walk through the week's climate news

The Climate Post: Insider baseball on Waxman-Markey, outsider baseball on Hawaiian solar power 3
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
For those mercifully far enough away not to know, the “Capital beltway” is a looping highway, Interstate 495, the way many metro Washington residents ride to work. “Inside the beltway” isn’t coincident with Washington, DC. It also connotes a mythical place unrestrained by geography, a state of mind where consequential details of legislation attract and hold attention, sometimes for years on end. Whether you work inside or outside the beltway determines whether you think there was climate news this week in the capital, and by extension, Bonn.
Put yer nukes up

As Energy Northwest looks to nuclear power, expert details risks 2
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Regional power consortium Energy Northwest may be looking to build a new nuclear reactor in Washington state. Sure, it's carbon-free power, but at what risk? Nuke expert Robert Alvarez weighs in.
Gov. Gregoire signs executive order on climate change 1
Posted 6 months ago
Hint: nothing gets built

What happens when you mandate clean coal 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
Another coal plant bites the dust.
Hizzoner's Progress

15 green-leaning mayors 17
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Global warming is a global problem -- but there ain't no global solution. That's why mayors across the U.S. are taking matters into their own hands.
We Soaked In It

A test of green(er) dishwasher detergents 6
Posted 7 months ago
Green dishwasher detergents are better for the planet -- but do they get the job done? Tom Philpott puts a few brands to the test.
April Powers

EPA announces collegiate Green Power winners; competition fails to change power buying habits 1
Posted 7 months ago
The Ivy League is the greenest of them all, according to the EPA, which today announced the college and university winners of the Green Power challenge -- a competition to motivate American schools to purchase more renewable energy.
The bill formerly known as ...

Washington’s cap-and-trade legislation no longer involves cap and trade 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Washington state's cap-and-trade legislation is no more. Or rather, it has been so stripped of capping and trading that it is no longer worthy of that moniker.
Documentary: Cascading Effects 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Everybody cool it

Regional climate policy is still moving forward in the Northwest 0
Posted 8 months ago
Over the last couple of weeks, there's been a lot of hand-wringing about the state of climate policy in the Northwest. Washington's citizen-backed renewable energy standard is in jeopardy and neither Oregon nor Washington appears close to implementing the Western Climate Initiative. Even British Columbia's pioneering carbon tax is taking fire. Freak out! Everybody panic! Or not.
Washington’s cap-and-trade legislation gutted by Senate committee 1
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago