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SEATTLE (AP) — Environmentalists teamed with Native Americans, ranchers and even...

A thin green line with global impact. Latest in a series on creating a zero-carbon bioregion. Robert McClure, executive director of InvestigateWest, is a veteran newspaper reporter, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. SHARES Familiar mood, different Vancouver. Protesters block an oil-carrying train in Vancouver, Wash. in 2016 — part of a two-decade movement spanning Alaska to Californ...

How Cascadia’s climate activists fought off fossil fuels and succeeded During a decade when the region’s governments flouted their carbon emissions goals, activists who came together to stop exports surpassed their wildest expectations. by InvestigateWest / January 18, 2021 Hundreds of kayaktivists take to the water during protest against drilling in the Arctic and the Port of Seattle being used as a port for the Shell Oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer. The p...

Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. All rely heavily on hydropower, are transitioning from resource extraction industries, have rapidly diversifying populations and face common challenges as they transition off fossil fuels.This project is a year-long collaboration between InvestigateWest, Grist, Crosscut, Jefferson Public Radio, The Tyee, South Seattle Emerald and The Evergrey.

Home » Environment » A Lost Decade: How Climate Action Fizzled in Cascadia Washington, Oregon and British Columbia pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions. In a decade full of big talk and some epic battles, they all failed. With dozens of people killed by wildfires in the western U.S., millions of acres scorched, and choking smoke spreading far into British Columbia, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee lit up the news wires in September. “These are not just wildfires,” Inslee asserted at a pres...

To the rest of the world, the United States’ Pacific Northwest and Canada’s British...

Washington, Oregon and British Columbia all pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions, and all fell short. Why? by Twenty-year-old Aji Piper was 15 when he became a plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit in which youths are suing the U.S. government on the grounds that it is continuing to allow climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. He is pictured here wearing a mask to protect himself during one of Washingtons climate-driven smoke emergencies. (Alex Garland) With dozens of people killed by wildf...