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Cap-and-train How to actually deliver green-collar jobs to those who need them	Alan Durning	07 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Over the next few decades, converting the Pacific Northwest to a place of compact, walkable communities that run on superefficient, renewable energy system -- a climate-safe economy -- will be a lot of work: paid work. But for all the exciting announcements of solar jobs and green-tech investment that pepper the newspapers, the skill sets of today's workers are not yet aligned with the needs of this future. In previous posts in this series, I have described thre ...
Topics: business, economy, education, green jobs, Washington (all these topics)

West for the Weary Western states announce proposal for cutting GHG emissions		23 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 3:07 PM on 23 Sep 2008 Participants in the Western Climate Initiative on Tuesday announced specific plans for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The seven states and four provinces will initiate a cap-and-trade program, establishing a carbon market that applies to industries and utilities by 2012 and transportation, heating, and other fuels by 2015. The proposed program is ...
Topics: ... California, Canada, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Montana, New Mexico, news, Oregon, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Blast From the Mast Groups sue Navy over underwater explosions		30 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:29 PM on 30 Jul 2008 Environmental groups are up in arms about training exercises conducted by the U.S. Navy -- not sonar this time, but underwater explosives. The Wild Fish Conservancy and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility have filed a federal lawsuit against the Navy, saying its practice of training divers to explode dummy mines in Washington State's Puget Sound poses an unacceptable hazard to salmon, o ...
Topics: Department of Defense, litigation, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, oceans, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

West Foot Forward Western states unveil draft cap-and-trade scheme		24 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:53 PM on 24 Jul 2008 The Western Climate Initiative has unveiled a draft proposal for a regional cap-and-trade program that would kick off in 2012. The 11 states and provinces involved -- Arizona, British Columbia, California, Manitoba, Montana, New Mexico, Ontario, Oregon, Quebec, Utah, and Washington -- would impose an as-yet-determined greenhouse-gas emissions limit on industries and utilities, then allow laggards ...
Topics: ... California, Canada, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, Montana, New Mexico, news, Oregon, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Call for an end to Washington State biofuel mandates ASUW student body transcends State and Federal legislators	biodiversivist	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A resolution opposing current Washington State biofuel policies (website not yet updated to reflect acceptance of resolution) passed in the University of Washington Student Senate on the third of June. The Associated Students of the University of Washington are, to my knowledge, the first legislative body in the country to take this bold step. The following is a brief history of how it came to be:Back in February, The Daily ran a short story about UW's plans to incr ...
Topics: biofuels, dirty hippies, energy, Jay Inslee, Washington (all these topics)

Now Taking Reservations Feds can dump more waste at Wash. Superfund site, says court		22 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:26 PM on 22 May 2008 Washington State doesn't have the right to refuse more dumping of radioactive waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, an appeals court ruled Wednesday. In 2004, nearly 70 percent of Washingtonians voted to keep the federal government from disposing of more toxic waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation until the highly polluted Superfund site is cleaned up. The Bus ...
Topics: energy, litigation, news, nuclear power, Washington, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

The Old College Try U. of Washington to create big eco-college		15 May 2008	News
Posted at 4:36 PM on 15 May 2008 The University of Washington is planning to create the largest environmental college evah. The proposed College of the Environment would become the 5th-largest of U-Dub's 17 colleges, combining its current schools of forestry, fishery sciences, atmospheric sciences, earth and space sciences, marine affairs, and oceanography. "Certainly, higher education in general has a responsibility to tackle ...
Topics: education, green living, news, Washington (all these topics)

Taking a pillow to a knife fight Traditional print media and complex issues	biodiversivist	06 May 2008	Gristmill
On Saturday I received an email with a link to an article by Lisa Stiffler in Friday's Seattle Times. I'm going to use it to demonstrate how newspapers can muddy the water when it comes to complex issues. First, her article is a perfectly good one -- and a very typical one. You can't put a hyperlink on paper. You can't afford to waste space for footnotes. You are constrained by a word count. You also have to craft a story, keep it local, and do your best not to show ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, Washington (all these topics)

Carbon tax shifts? The only obstacle to more state carbon taxes is politics	Alan Durning	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill
One of Washington State's conservative think tanks has just proposed a carbon tax shift. Interesting. (Read it here.) The Washington Policy Center has garbed its tax shift proposal in anti-government clothing. Some of the rhetoric makes my skin crawl. But the proposal itself is sensible if modest. It includes a starter carbon tax that pays for a small sales tax reduction. As a bonus, it throws in a business and occupations tax reduction on all capital investment. It's ...
Topics: cap-and-dividend, carbon tax, climate, Washington (all these topics)

By a Whisker Northwest sea lions granted stay of execution		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:03 PM on 24 Apr 2008 Sea lions all set to gobble their last salmon supper at a Northwest dam have been granted a stay of execution by a U.S. appeals court. Judges granted an injunction, requested by the Humane Society, that a lower court had denied last week. It's only a partial victory for the Humane Society, however, as the court did OK the transfer of the whiskery rascals to zoos and aquariums; state officials planned to ...
Topics: animal welfare, dams, endangered species, litigation, news, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

Lions' Humane Judge denies Humane Society injunction, OKs sea-lion trapping		17 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:41 PM on 17 Apr 2008 Denying an injunction sought by the Humane Society, a federal judge has given the go-ahead to Oregon and Washington state officials to trap and kill salmon-gobbling sea lions near the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. The animal-rights group sued after the National Marine Fisheries Service OK'd sea-lion culling last month. An official hearing on the Humane Society lawsuit could be held as ...
Topics: animal welfare, dams, endangered species, litigation, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

The State of Play Washington governor may veto bill restricting toxins in toys		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:21 PM on 27 Mar 2008 Washington State Gov. Christine Gregoire may veto legislation that would be the toughest in the nation at making sure toys are free of (or low in) lead, cadmium, phthalates, and other toxins. Even though a slew of amendments exempt certain playthings, from tricycles to pellet guns to sleds, Big Toy officials have warned Gregoire that the bill is still too restrictive, since it doesn't ...
Topics: green living, legislation, news, parenting, politics, state politics, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Flipper Them Off State officials given OK to kill sea lions to protect salmon		18 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:22 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Oregon and Washington state officials will have the authority to trap and, if necessary, kill up to 85 of the sea lions that gobble up threatened salmon at the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced Tuesday. Sea lions, which enjoy a robust population but are nonetheless protected under the 1972 Marine Mammals Protection Act, have been visiting ...
Topics: dams, endangered species, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

What's wrong with the WCI? The Western Climate Initiative's first proposal ducks biggest climate problem	Eric de Place	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The Western Climate Initiative is a path-breaking effort. Insufficient federal progress prompted seven states and two provinces to join together to reduce climate pollution by means of an economy-wide cap-and-trade program. It's a momentous opportunity, and many folks have been working hard to ensure that it's a success. Unfortunately, there's now cause for serious concern. Yesterday evening, WCI released its draft proposal (PDF). It proposes an initial cap that ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

Crime and Punishment Eco-sabotage lookout found guilty of two counts of arson for 2001 blaze		06 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:05 PM on 06 Mar 2008 A federal jury has found 32-year-old Briana Waters guilty of two counts of arson for her role as the lookout in a 2001 blaze at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture. Of more than a dozen people connected with the radical Earth Liberation Front and arrested in connection with various property crimes in the West, Waters was the only one who went to ...
Topics: Earth Liberation Front, eco-terrorism, news, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Obama takes Maine in a wicked pissah	David Roberts	11 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Looks like Obama has won Maine in something of a blowout. This was a state that was widely expected to go to Clinton, and in which she had a commanding lead in the polls through late last year. At this point she's got to be wishing everyone could just go to sleep until the Texas primary. On the bright side, she's got a very, very narrow lead in New Mexico, with 99% reporting. In other rumorish news, it suuure sounds like Colin Powell's getting ready to endorse Obama: ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mike Huckabee, politics, presidential race 08, Washington (all these topics)

A trio of Obama wins	David Roberts	09 Feb 2008	Gristmill
As expected, Obama won Nebraska, Washington, and Louisiana. The victories were widely predicted, but the sheer size of them, the overwhelming Obama stompery, was something of a surprise.
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Louisiana, Nebraska, politics, presidential race 08, Washington (all these topics)

Out Like a Sea Lion Federal officials suggest killing sea lions to protect salmon		18 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:13 PM on 18 Jan 2008 To protect endangered Northwest salmon, the National Marine Fisheries Service suggests giving Oregon and Washington state officials the authority to kill sea lions, which last year gobbled up more than 4 percent of the salmon running through the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam. The action would likely result in about 30 sea lion deaths a year. The federal agency is taking public co ...
Topics: endangered species, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Talk about targeting!	David Roberts	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Here's a blog devoted entirely to geothermal energy in Washington state. Apparently there's a need:The hot zone of California, Nevada (the Saudi Arabia of geothermal), Idaho and Oregon could produce tens of thousands of megawatts along the spine of the Sierra Nevadas and Cascades. Washington state sits on the edge of this hot zone. The 34 thermal hot springs throughout the state are just the surface of our potential. Yet, Washington state has zero megawatts of geoth ...
Topics: energy, geothermal power, Washington, websites (all these topics)

Throw the book at him Which circle of hell for illegal logging?	Eric de Place	18 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Sickening. Kevin John Moran of Camano Island, Wash., was just convicted of illegally cutting down 27 old-growth cedars on public land. They were between 400 and 700 years old. And they were dry-side trees, even rarer than the Northwest's west-slope titans. But here's the worst that can happen to him: Theft of government property is a Class C felony, which means a maximum sentence of 10 years or less, and a fine not to exceed $250,000. Some of these tr ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, Washington (all these topics)

Another one bites the dust Coal plant application rejected in Washington	David Roberts	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Another coal plant application denied. This one was stiffed because of a law Washington passed this year requiring that coal plant proposals include plans for carbon sequestration or, if that's not possible, plans to purchase offsets in a commensurate amount. But you gotta start with the sequestration plan, and the application from Energy Northwest didn't have one. Said the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC): "The principal flaw in the (Greenhouse ...
Topics: coal, energy, Washington (all these topics)

Delay of the land Drastic delays proposed for Hanford Nuclear Reservation cleanup	Sarah K. Burkhalter	21 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Gina Barteletti, publications and volunteer coordinator at Heart of America Northwest. ----- The U.S. Department of Energy is proposing to add more deadly, toxic waste to Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation before existing waste is cleaned up. At the same time, DOE is proposing changes to the Tri-Party Agreement (TPA), also known as the Hanford Cleanup Agreement, which could add decades to cleanup. DOE has prop ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, Washington, waste (all these topics)

Goooaaalll! What will it take to reduce Washington state GHG emissions 10 million tons by 2020?	Clark Williams-Derry	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Earlier this year, the governor of Washington set an ambitious goal (PDF): reducing the state's greenhouse-gas emissions by 10 million tons by 2020. That would put the state's emissions back to about where they were in 1990 -- roughly an 11 percent decline, all told, from today's levels. Of course, that's only a start. Real climate leadership will require reductions on the order of 80 to 90 percent by the middle of this century. Still, a 10-million-ton re ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Washington (all these topics)

You Gotta Fight for the Right's Right to Party Right whales get safe haven off east coast of Canada, baby orcas high in PBDEs		11 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:36 PM on 11 Oct 2007 The International Maritime Organization has approved a proposal to designate a 695-square-mile zone off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, an official Area to Be Avoided, hoping to lower the risk of ship collisions with endangered right whales that tend to congregate there from June through December. However, avoiding the zone is voluntary ...
Topics: Canada, news, oceans, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

The wrong kind of bulk discount Washington state caps the cost to pollute, rather than the pollution	JMG	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The Sightline Institute (formerly Northwest Environment Watch) picks up a Seattle P-I report on yet another counterproductive incentive: making it cheaper to pollute in bulk. The more hazardous waste you produce in Washington, the better the deal you can get from the state. Companies that make chemicals, oil, paint, paper and airplanes must pay a Hazardous Waste Planning Fee for the toxic substances that they pump into the air and water or send to landfills. But because the f ...
Topics: air pollution, business, toxics, Washington, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

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