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Over 100 Washington Businesses Call for State Action on Climate Change

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Over 100 businesses, including Virginia Mason, Microsoft, REI, and Saltchuk today launched an open declaration calling for action on climate change. The Washington Business Climate Declaration highlights the support of state business leaders for action on climate change that would preserve and expand our state’s vibrant economy.

Biocarbon solutions are all around us

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Farmers, entrepreneurs, and scientists in the Pacific Northwest and beyond are delivering biocarbon results and demonstrating the pathways to a low carbon future. 

Oil trains in WA? The price is too darn high

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In the last week of October, Washington residents have a rare opportunity to raise our concerns about oil train safety and the prospect of even more unsafe oil trains rolling through our cities and towns. Attend a hearing in Spokane or Olympia and say no to big oil!

Welcome to our new Oregon Director

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Climate Solutions welcomes Kristen Sheeran to our Oregon team.

How a Koch-funded group attacking clean fuels standards flubs the math

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When an organization claiming to represent small business conducts an analysis, you'd hope that basic business accounting wouldn't be a problem. But when the "analysis" is actually an oil industry attack on climate policies...

Renewables advance, Europeans parley on carbon

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Abundant renewables drive coal off the grid in Scandinavia and the Baltics, new study shows fossil gas is no boon for the climate, activists blockade Australian coal port, and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.

What are the Koch brothers afraid of?

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Out-of-state climate deniers launch effort to mislead Washingtonians about clean fuels choices, clean air and our prospects for economic independence.

Cities on the Move

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Aggressive city action can reduce global carbon emissions at least 10% by 2030, according to a C40 report at the UN Climate Summit. Across the US, we see examples of cities that are investing in clean energy and carbon reduction solutions.

Art and Science: Carbon-Cutting in Shoreline, WA

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On-the-ground urban carbon reduction strategies are essential with or without carbon pricing, as they are the bricks-and-mortar pathways to a low-carbon future.

Climate change a threat to national security, says DoD

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Worldwide switch to clean power would save $1.8 trillion, rainforests store less carbon once they’re fragmented, WA carbon tax would pay steady dividends, and other stories of the week in clean energy solutions.

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“The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1930, “and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Today’s intersection of monstrous planetary crises has a name and a face: the Trump administration, with fossil fuel interests pulling strings behind the scenes.