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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 bridge will accelerate urban sprawl north into Washington from Oregon, baking in decades of single-us...

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 waves. It’s the agency’s first-ever lease for a wave energy project. “We expected we’d have to...

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 Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Management finalized a lease for Oregon State University’...

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 press conference from Olympia, “these are climate fires.” Two days later on George Stephanopoulos�...

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 lawsuit against the US government for failing on climate change. Here he wears a mask during one of W...