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It doesn't have to feel like Life on Mars

by Gregg Small on

Our climate movement is more unified than ever, but we're reaching a critical point where we must change a lot of things all at once. Let's do this together.

3 ways to cope with the smoke

by Jonathan Lee on

If you live west of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest, you likely woke up yesterday to an awful late-summer surprise (if you weren't under wildfire threat already): a blanket of unhealthy wildfire smoke.

Hope is huge. But is it enough?

by Jonathan Lawson on

Big oil takes heat for lobbying against clean energy... plus more of the latest climate news.

Cap-and-reduce: What’s at stake as DEQ kicks off program design

by Zach Baker on

One major component of the Oregon Climate Action Plan is a directive for the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to set up a new program to “cap and reduce” climate-harming pollution from Oregon’s large polluters.

Support BLM, wildfire relief and COVID frontlines

by Ben Jones on

One thing we have learned from COVID19 is that bad things don’t happen in isolation. As the pandemic drags along, more than a million acres have already burned in California’s wildfire season. In the midst of a much needed national reckoning on racism, another Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot by police in Kenosha, WI. 

ClimateCast: A hot and heavy week in August

by Stephanie Noren on

Do Democrats oppose fossil fuel subsidies?

Why solving the climate crisis is more urgent than ever

by Gregg Small on

Does it sometimes seem like we're now living in a permanent state of emergency? Because we are. And our need for climate action is anything but a distraction.

Clean Trucks for Justice

by Victoria Paykar on

Our state needs to prioritize cleaning up the delivery trucks, transit and school buses, big rigs, and other commercial vehicles that make up the medium and heavy duty transportation sector.

For businesses, climate is really the bottom line

by Jonathan Lawson on

The next frontier for clean energy transition: clean buildings.

Stop Cuts to Oregon’s Rooftop Solar Rebate Program

by Jonathan Lee on

Oregon legislators have proposed cutting the state’s only support for many rural and low-income communities to access solar and energy storage for their own roofs.

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Push and pull on clean energy

Northwest states respond to the data center boom; Trump admin attacks on environmental protection hit a speedbump; courts weigh in on the clean energy transition