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When Seattle’s first commercial airport opened in 1928, Georgetown had been a vibrant...

When Seattle’s first commercial airport opened in 1928, Georgetown had been a vibrant...

Can Oregon Democrats learn from B.C.’s carbon tax? By ERIK NEUMANNMay 12, 2021 GMT In 2019 and again in 2020, Oregon Republicans walked out of the state Legislature to prevent a vote on cap-and-trade climate bills. The legislation was meant to drive down the state’s carbon emissions, but Republicans feared the bills would place the greatest burden of higher fuel prices on sparsely populated rural communities. In 2008, the center-right party in British Columbia, actually named the Liberal Party, created a carbon tax to reduce emissions. More than a decade later, it has helped lower emissi...

These days, Frank Lemos manages a shipping operation, but the former truck driver still gets behind the wheel occasionally to train new drivers or to fill a staffing hole. When he does, he notices a big difference. The firm recently moved away from conventional diesel fuel, and now there's something missing: the permeating petroleum smell that drivers wear after a day inside a big rig.  "You come home, and you don't get to just jump in bed if you're tired. You have to take a shower, or else someone's going to kick you out of bed," said Lemos, who is operations manager for Portland-based Tita...

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 third of Oregon’s transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. Biofuels cut Titan’s petroleum ...