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Renewable diesel also yields far less carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Destructive wildfire seasons inspired Titan’s shift to renewable diesel a year ago, after a fire devastated Phoenix, Oregon, five miles from one of the firm’s terminals. “Doing nothing is not a course of action,” is how Titan’s owner Keith Wilson described his visceral response. Wilson knew climate change was stoking Cascadia’s fires, and that diesel vehicles produce over a th...

Slate Property Group and Grobman-Gross Properties have broken ground for their 166-unit mixed-use project at 69-65 Yellowstone Boulevard in Queens. The development will include 50 affordable apartments and 186 parking spaces across 210,000 s/f in the Forest Hills neighborhood. The Aufgang Architects-designed building, composed of brick and a large green vertical wall, includes 50,000 s/f of retail space on the cellar and ground floors. 69-65 Yellowstone Boulevard will also feature a large, lan...

InvestigateWest: Washington state plan would slash emissions Peter Fairley InvestigateWest After more than a decade of the supposedly eco-friendly Pacific Northwest and British Columbia falling short on pledges to fight climate change, a new blueprint emerged last month for how to eliminate all but a sliver of fossil-fuel emissions.  The 428-page plan by Washington state outlines how to make a wholesale shift to renewable energy and meet some of the most ambitious climate-protection goals on t...

Washington state offers a new blueprint for how Cascadia can kick the fossil-fuel habit.  Peter Fairley is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria and San Francisco, whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, NewScientist, Hakai Magazine, Technology Review, the Atlantic, Nature and elsewhere. SHARES Climate activist Eileen Quigley is feeling hope after seeing her state of Washington set a bold new path toward renewable energy. She worked with model...

InvestigateWest: Washington state plan would slash emissions By PETER FAIRLEYJanuary 25, 2021 GMT After more than a decade of the supposedly eco-friendly Pacific Northwest and British Columbia falling short on pledges to fight climate change, a new blueprint emerged this month for how to eliminate all but a sliver of fossil-fuel emissions. The 428-page plan by Washington state outlines how to make a wholesale shift to renewable energy and meet some of the most ambitious climate-protection goal...

A renewed plan for climate protection emerges in Washington state Redoubled climate goals and a fresh blueprint revive hopes to cut emissions. But ongoing fossil fuel development in B.C. could undercut progress in Cascadia.  by InvestigateWest / January 25, 2021 Whether and how to expand the Interstate 5 bridge between Oregon and Washington is a prime example of decisions facing the governments of Cascadia to address climate change. Adding more lanes to the b...

Photo: Craig Mitchelldyer (Getty Images) The Trump administration ended with a series of last-minute environmental rollbacks. But the day before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s Department of the Interior also, bizarrely, snuck in what could be a big win for renewable energy. Advertisement On Monday, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Management finalized a lease for Oregon State University’s PacWave South center to deploy technologies to generate energy from ocean wa...

The U.S. Approves Permit for the Proving Ground for the Future of Wave Energy Gizmodo 1/21/2021 Dharna Noor © Photo: Craig Mitchelldyer (Getty Images) The project will be built off the coast of Newport, Oregon. The Trump administration ended with a series of last-minute environmental rollbacks. But the day before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s Department of the Interior also, bizarrely, snuck in what could be a big win for renewable energy. On Monday, the I...

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...

Cascadia Was Poised to Lead on Climate. Can It Still? BC, Washington and Oregon all aimed to slash emissions. After epic battles, they failed. First in a series on creating a zero-carbon bioregion. Peter Fairley is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria and San Francisco, whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, NewScientist, Hakai Magazine, Technology Review, the Atlantic, Nature and elsewhere. SHARES Aji Piper, now 20, was 15 when he joined a l...