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Increasing alignment towards 100% clean energy

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More cities and nations are committing to leave behind fossil fuels in the interest of a healthy future. That and more in this week's ClimateCast.

Tell TriMet: Time to expand and electrify transit

by Meredith Connolly on

If you live in the greater Portland area, your voice is needed to tell TriMet that you support frequent, affordable, zero emission transit service, prioritizing the communities that need it most. 

We're closing in on our $1 million goal!

by Gregg Small on

We are incredibly close to reaching our $1 million fundraising goal for our audacious 100% clean energy vision. Can you help close the gap?

Twenty years of Climate Solutions: a retrospective

by Jonathan Lawson on

In our first 20 years, Climate Solutions helped resolve much uncertainty about the facts of climate change, and the prospects for solutions. There's every reason for hope; the fateful question now is whether we will act, and whether we’ll do it fast enough.

Climate diaries, revisited

by Paul Horton on

One of our co-founders recalls the Montana roots of his environmental advocacy, and notes that Climate Solutions' early strategy of bringing people together across differences to talk solutions remains a key to solving the climate crisis.

Buses drive into the future with electric fleets

by Devon Downeysmith on

The transportation sector's immense contribution to global warming makes it a very important place to reduce emissions. That and more new climate and clean energy news in the latest ClimateCast.

I-1631: Coming together to protect Washington and a healthy future

by Vlad Gutman-Britten on

The people of Washington have the opportunity to win one of the most ambitious, effective and far reaching policies to tackle climate change.

Workers climbing wind turbines to the middle class

by Devon Downeysmith on

Clean energy investment is good for business; clean energy jobs are good for communities; the economic benefits of carbon pricing and more in the latest ClimateCast.

EPA boss keeps denying, seas keep rising

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A deregulatory push at the EPA is met by resistance from state governments. Solar projects grow in scale as well as number. States, cities and towns respond to climate threats with resiliency measures as well as with clean energy planning.

EPA won’t be able to roll back auto standards. States and communities won’t have it.

by KC Golden on

Scott Pruitt is hastily trying to scuttle one of EPA’s signature achievements of the last decade: stronger vehicle emissions and fuel economy standards. But he’s swimming against the tide of economics, technology, and overwhelming public support. And the state governments that won these standards aren’t going to give them up.

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Earth Week in a time of monsters

“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.