One year ago...
It was a year ago this week that the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
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Oregon’s Climate Protection Program protects our health, cuts pollution from the state’s largest emitters, and helps shield families from rising energy costs. Big oil and gas are once again suing in court to avoid accountability. We’re committed to defending this program and ensuring a safe, healthy, affordable Oregon for today and future generations.
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Seattle Schools’ history-making commitment to climate action
Seattle Public Schools makes a bold climate commitment: to transition to 100% clean and renewable energy by 2040 by eliminating all use of fossil fuels in district electricity, heating, cooling, cooking, and transportation.
Cutting pollution with clean fuels: a top climate priority for Washington
Right now, Washington is a lonely outlier on the West coast: the only state that is not benefiting from a Clean Fuel Standard.
Here's your clean energy team for 2021
Biden's climate picks bring experience, grit and a focus on environmental justice. Plus: Who the gas industry is targeting now, and climate book recommendations for the holidays!
The case for clean, safe, and all-electric buildings
Washington and Oregon need to join the movement towards clean, safe, all-electric buildings—and we need to do it soon. Look out for more information on the case for all-electric buildings and the policy solutions that can get us there in the Northwest.
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.
Clean, climate-friendly buildings can help Oregon build back better
We can rebuild and recover in a more just, clean, healthy, and smart way—while creating lots of high quality green jobs along the way. One of those climate-smart and equitable solutions to build back better than before is right in front of us, and all around us: our homes and other buildings.
Announcing a new approach
So how do we keep advancing solutions to global warming during this time of economic instability?
Connecting the dots: COVID-19 and environmental racism
Like climate change, COVID-19 exposes and intensifies health disparities that exist in the United States for those most vulnerable.
Trump's attack on Clean Cars must not, and will not, stand
US states and previous federal administrations (from both parties) have worked hard to protect our air quality and our climate. Now let's stand together and defend against Trump's recklessness.
Clean air for all communities… Let’s HEAL Washington!
When it comes to environmental pollution, protection should not depend on complexion.
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