A summer of extreme extremes
100% clean electricity nationwide, scoring environmental justice, and a season of extremes
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A summer of extreme extremes
100% clean electricity nationwide, scoring environmental justice, and a season of extremes
Rein in the biggest polluters, avert climate chaos
Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality has been developing rules to hold our state's biggest polluters accountable for the first time, but we're losing ground to industry lobbyists.
Protect Northwest farmworkers from extreme heat
Urge your members of Congress to back the federal heat safety bill.
100% clean despite the heat
A federal "down payment" on climate (?), green hydrogen, and a note on this summer's extreme heat
One year ago...
It was a year ago this week that the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
3 ways to cope with the smoke
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.
On climate disruption, ending silence and heeding science
Breaking through Climate Silence In the wake of Hurricane Harvey,
Coal won’t rebound under any scenario, says DOE
China to invest $361 billion in clean energy over five years, Chevy Bolt wins Car of the Year award, VW executive arrested in Miami over emissions fraud conspiracy, and more news of the week in climate and clean energy.
Arctic oil is out, offshore wind is in, PV prices falling
Hawaii to meet 100% RPS five years ahead of schedule, Democrats to target Pruitt and Tillerson in hearings, Bangladesh tests ‘swarm electrification,’ and more news of the week in climate and clean energy.
Talks begin in Marrakech to implement the Paris accord
Global carbon intensity falls nearly 3 percent, California’s “duck curve” deepens faster than expected, Shell predicts peak oil demand in five to 15 years, and more news of the week in climate and clean energy.