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Like a sapling left standing after a clearcut, the public lands of Southwest Washington are slowly growing one ring at a time.
Recently, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed that 6,557 acres of Weyerhaeuser timberlands have been opened to the public through their private lands access program.
Those acres are located primarily in the Cascade foothills south of Mount St. Helens and on the east side of Interstate 5. One of the four parcels is located just southeast of Yale Reservoir along the Clark/Skamania county line. Other parcels are located in Game Management Units 568 (Washougal), 572 (Siouxon), and 568 (South Clark County). In those areas, access permits will no longer be required for visitors but the use of motorized vehicles is still prohibited.
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Arizona Public Service (APS) has captured the attention of the Western U.S. power sector with its plan to finance the economic transition of communities affected by the closure of its remaining coal plants.
Economic reality defeated the Trump administration s efforts to protect coal, and the energy transition is expected to accelerate under President-elect Biden. But few of the Western utilities already closing uneconomic coal facilities have taken commensurate financial responsibility for helping to transition the often profoundly affected communities. The $144.45 million long-term APS plan could be a game-changer, the utility and economic justice advocates agree.
Other transition funding plans are incomplete or offer much less compared to the size of the affected plants, Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign Western Region Director Evan Gillespie said. APS is proposing to do what they are obligated to do and what so many other utilities are failing to do and it can ch
WA unemployment problems persist, with some going unpaid for months
Nine months into the pandemic, the state’s unemployment system is still rife with issues, and thousands are stuck in limbo.
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Heather Frey outside of her Seattle home on Dec. 15, 2020. Frey has been filing for pandemic unemployment assistance since March and, as of earlier this week, hadn’t received a single payment yet. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
Heather Frey filed for unemployment in March, when the pandemic disrupted her business selling used books online.
Nine months later, the Seattle resident was still waiting on her first unemployment check and wondering how she was going to pay her bills.
Dominion Energy’s Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center.
A recent report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis states that Virginia’s Wise County needs to start preparing for the retiring of Dominion Energy’s Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (VCHEC).
The 8-year-old coal-fired power plant, owned by Dominion through its subsidiary Virginia Electric & Power Co., is at risk of closure as market and policy forces work against its viability.
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According to the report, VCHEC ran at only 19.86% capacity during the first eight months of this year. At its peak performance in 2013 and 2014, it operated at slightly more than 65% of its capacity but has fallen off over the past two years, to 54% in 2018 and 22% in 2019.