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

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, landscaped common outdoor recreation space on the third floor and rooftop and multiple terraces on each...

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 the planet. It calls for building a regional network of solar and wind energy stations and transmissi...

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 modellers to inform the plan. Photo by Dan DeLong via InvestigateWest. [Editor’s note: This is part of...

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 goals on the planet. It calls for building a regional network of solar and wind energy stations and tran...