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Transportation is a big honking deal Responsible climate policy means reducing transportation emissions	Eric de Place	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill
In the Northwest, it's impossible to address climate change without doing something about transportation. Take a look at this chart showing CO2 emissions from fossil fuels in Washington. In Washington (as in Oregon), everything else pales in comparison to the emissions that come from transportation. In fairness, the chart above shows only emission from fossil fuels. But fossil fuels represent better than four-fifths of the state's entire portfolio of green ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, fossil fuels, greenhouse-gas emissions, Washington (all these topics)

All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact Yesterday, the leaders of six Western states and two Canadian provinces agreed to their own regional climate pact, aiming to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The Western Climate Initiative ...
Topics: Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Hanford, we have a problem A leak, to be precise.	Sarah K. Burkhalter	14 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Natalie Troyer, publications and volunteer coordinator at Heart of America Northwest. Read her previous posts here and here. I don't know if you've heard, but on Friday, July 27, a geyser from Hades erupted at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Yep, it's true. In the wee hours of that morning, a water line became clogged with radioactive sludge as thick as peanut butter, sending a big chunky mass of the hottest, most deadly ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, Washington, waste (all these topics)

Factory farm map How many are there in your state?	David Roberts	01 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Via Modeshift, check out the Factory Farm Map, which shows the location of factory farms in the U.S. by state and by county. Here in Washington we have a relatively low eight. Sorry to all you folks in Iowa, where there are 3,876. That's a lot!
Topics: agriculture, industrial ag, Iowa, Washington (all these topics)

Sticker shocker Cars are more expensive than you think	Clark Williams-Derry	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Everyone knows that cars are expensive, right? Still, it may come as a surprise to find out just how much money we spend getting from place to place. The cost of the car itself -- typically the second biggest purchase many families make in their lives -- is just the start. When you start adding in the cost of gasoline, and car insurance, and maintenance and repairs, and parking, and taxes to build new roads and maintain old ones, and license fees, and the med ...
Topics: British Columbia, cars, Idaho, Oregon, placemaking, Washington (all these topics)

No More Dicking Around House approves long-delayed Wild Sky Wilderness bill		19 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
No More Dicking Around House approves long-delayed Wild Sky Wilderness bill After five years of delay, the House has passed a bill creating a 167-square-mile Wild Sky Wilderness area in northern Washington state. The bill had been approved by the Senate three times in recent years, but stalled out each time in the Republican-led House, with former California Rep. Richard P ...
Topics: legislation, news, politics, US House of Representatives, Washington, wilderness (all these topics)

Olympic Gold Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park brings nature to a city setting	Sarah van Schagen	17 Apr 2007	Arts and Minds
Alexander Calder's Eagle against an Olympic mountain backdrop. Photo: iotae via flickr I've never seen the Pacific Northwest. I mean, I live in Seattle, and I look around, but I've never really seen it. I came to this realization while walking the zig-zagged trail at Seattle's new Olympic Sculpture Park with Grist mascot Chip Giller and two OSP guides. It took nearly the entire tour ...
Topics: art, green living, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Slouching towards sanity In Washington state	Clark Williams-Derry	15 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Ooh, boy! It looks like the state of Washington is one step closer to having a sane climate policy. The state House of Representatives just passed a climate policy that looks like it's got some teeth: The measure, which passed 84-14 after a brief debate, commits Washington to shrink emissions to 1990's levels by 2020. By 2035, the measure is supposed to lower emissions to 25 percent below 1990's levels, and to 50 percent by 2050.The Senate already has ap ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, politics, state politics, Washington (all these topics)

Deca Dent Washington state first in the nation to ban PBDEs		04 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Deca Dent Washington state first in the nation to ban PBDEs Washington state will be the first in the nation to phase out nasty fireproofing chemicals called PBDEs, which show up in the bodies of people and wildlife and may cause neurological damage. Yesterday, the state Senate passed a measure that will eventually ban home items containing deca, the most commonly used PBDE; the House had already approved the bill, and no ...
Topics: health, news, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Like a spam filter for your mailbox Knock that junk off	Todd Hymas Samkara	02 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Washington state is one of a half dozen states considering legislation this year to create a "do not mail" list for residents, similar to the feds' popular "do not call" registry. And like the telemarketing industry's cries that it would be utterly destroyed and millions of contented telemarketers would be out of a job, similar forces are mobilizing against the "do not mail" bills, including the Direct Marketing Association, the ma ...
Topics: legislation, politics, Washington, waste (all these topics)

If At First You Don't Secede Five western states form regional climate-change partnership		27 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
If At First You Don't Secede Five western states form regional climate-change partnership Citing a federal leadership void, the governors of five western U.S. states have formed a regional partnership to cut greenhouse gases and fight climate change. The Western Regional Climate Action Initiative, which inc ...
Topics: Arizona, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, state politics, Washington (all these topics)

The River Dry David James Duncan rows through a wheat field to save salmon -- and we've got pictures	Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter	25 Jan 2007	Main Dish
Photo: Frederic Ohlinger "The miracle meal after the Sermon on the Mount was both loaves and fishes," says author and storyteller David James Duncan. "Not one or the other. Both." It's a sentiment that helps to explain why Duncan and a variety of compatriots were photographed in 13 colorful dories, rowing and casting lines -- into a ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, food and agriculture, Washington (all these topics)

Follow-up on Federal Way schools and Gore's movie School board official defends the decision	David Roberts	17 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Remember the story about how the Federal Way school board put a "moratorium" on showings of An Inconvenient Truth? David Larsen, the now-extremely-embattled vice president of the Federal Way school board, has a piece in the Seattle Times today, explaining what the school board really did and why they did it. First, I should say that despite the delight I and many others took in lampooning the decision, people in Federal Way are not idiots. Larsen's not an ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, education, movies, Washington (all these topics)

Best story of the year so far Al Gore's movie booted by wacky school board	David Roberts	11 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Congrats to Seattle P-I enviro reporters Robert McClure and Lisa Stiffler for unearthing the funniest story I've read in a good long while. Here's the nut: The school board in Federal Way, a southern exurb of Seattle, just put a "moratorium" on showings of An Inconvenient Truth, based largely on the complaints of one parent, Frosty Hardison. The glory is in the details. Right off the bat we get this: "Condoms don't belong in school, and neither doe ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, education, movies, Washington (all these topics)

Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth		11 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth First sex, now science? What will they tell the kids about next? The parents of a high-schooler in Federal Way, Wash., have complained to the district's school board about a teacher's plan to screen Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and the board has put a moratorium on the film. "Co ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, education, green living, movies, news, Washington (all these topics)

Not in Sound health Washington guv defangs oversight panel	Kate Sheppard	23 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire may have announced a major program to clean up the Puget Sound just last week, but this week the tides have, er, turned.This week, she's planning to limit the power of an independent citizen oversight panel intending to keep an eye on the oil industry -- probably the biggest threat to Sound health. From the Seattle P-I:Gregoire told the chairman of the Oil Spill Advisory Council, which is less than 1 1/2 years old, that she ...
Topics: oil, politics, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

The Doctor Is in ... Your Tank An interview with Seattle biodiesel distributor Dan Freeman	Yolanda Crous	07 Dec 2006	Main Dish
Dan Freeman. As a kid, Dan Freeman experimented with using alcohol to run lawnmowers and minibikes. (Oh, to have been a fly on the wall for that parent-son conversation.) These days, he runs Dr. Dan's Alternative Fuel Werks, a Seattle-based biodiesel retail and distribution company with customers ranging from school districts to organic farmers to concerned individuals who want ...
Topics: biofuels, business, cars, energy, interview, placemaking, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Give and Takings Property-rights initiatives threaten environmental protections in four Western states	Dan Whipple	16 Oct 2006	Main Dish
Field of dreams or field of nightmares? It depends who you ask. Photos: iStockphoto When you hear the phrase "a perfect storm," it's likely to conjure images of roiling whitecaps, perhaps a daring Coast Guard rescuer dangling from a helicopter to pull half-drowned sailors from their foundering vessels. Chances are the last thing it will bring to mind is land ...
Topics: Arizona, California, Idaho, placemaking, Washington (all these topics)

Take Your Pick Environmentalists pick their sides in key Senate races	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Sep 2006	Muckraker
It's a rare political event that can draw applause from both the White House and environmental groups, but Lincoln Chafee's victory in the Rhode Island Republican primary on Tuesday was just that. Lincoln Chafee. The Bush administration reasons that Chafee -- the most liberal Republican in the Senate, and frequently at odds with Bush on hot-button issues from Iraq to tax cuts -- is their on ...
Topics: elections, League of Conservation Voters, Missouri, Montana, Muckraker, Pennsylvania, politics, Rhode Island, Sierra Club, US Senate, Washington (all these topics)

Small Talk Gregg Small, director of the Washington Toxics Coalition, answers readers' questions		25 Aug 2006	InterActivist
Gregg Small, Washington Toxics Coalition. What can be done to start the process of weaning our dependence on chemicals, therefore leading to reduced levels in our environment and us?�� -- Kristina Logsdon, Seattle, Wash. Our top priority in Washington is passing a bill to phase out the use of toxic flame retardants called PBDEs that are rapidly building up in breast milk, our bodies, and ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

The Toxics Avenger Gregg Small, director of the Washington Toxics Coalition, answers Grist's questions		21 Aug 2006	InterActivist
Gregg Small. What's your job title? Executive director of the Washington Toxics Coalition. What does your organization do? WTC works to protect human health and the environment from the impacts of toxic pollution. What are you working on at the moment? Photo: iStockphoto A top priority right now is our Pollution in People Project. For many years, the environmental movement has been ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Shiver Our Timbers Washington state timber industry gets exemption from species act		07 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Shiver Our Timbers Washington state timber industry gets exemption from species act For the next 50 years, the Washington state timber industry will be shielded from prosecution under the Endangered Species Act for harming salmon. In return, the industry has agreed to help the fish by leaving more trees standing near critical streams, reducing logging on unstable slopes, and controlling sediment runoff. The deal, signed ...
Topics: fishing, logging, news, Washington (all these topics)

Dirty Deeds Done Crappily Hanford nuclear-waste site is a big ol' mess		03 May 2006	Daily Grist
Dirty Deeds Done Crappily Hanford nuclear-waste site is a big ol' mess The cleanup effort at the nuke-waste-riddled Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is looking like one big fustercluck. The finish date has been delayed from 2011 to 2017 or later, extending the time that 53 million gallons of radioactive and toxic waste will sit in leak-prone tanks near the Colu ...
Topics: Columbia River, Department of Energy, news, nuclear power, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Guster's Last Stand The barnstorming band that's changing the world, one campus at a time	Sarah van Schagen	07 Apr 2006	Main Dish
Singing a new song: Guster rocks out for eco-awareness. Photo: Ian B. Johnson. � After welcoming some 1,500 fans to a concert at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., last week, Ryan Miller -- the curly haired front man of pop/rock band Guster -- asked the audience if they had noticed that he changed the lyrics in the first song from "Ramona" to "Ta ...
Topics: campus activism, education, messaging, music, Washington (all these topics)

E-Waste Not, E-Want Not Washington Gov. Gregoire signs far-reaching e-recycling law		27 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
E-Waste Not, E-Want Not Washington Gov. Gregoire signs far-reaching e-recycling law On Friday, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) signed into law the toughest electronic-waste recycling measure in the U.S. -- good news for a state brimming with Microsoft techies who upgrade their systems once a quarter. The bill will require TV and computer makers to collect, transport, and dispose of the e-devices at their o ...
Topics: green living, news, recycling, Washington (all these topics)

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