Category: Climate crisis
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The Backward-Looking Push to Keep Coal Plants Running
Photo: Montana’s Colstrip power plant in 2015 From about 2009 to 2016, I expended an exorbitant amount of energy in…
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A Fight Over Fossil Fuel Exports in the Salish Sea
The Salish Sea’s Southern Resident orcas, one of whom is shown above, are among the creatures impacted by tanker traffic…
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Climate Change Re-shapes the Northwest
The recent historic floods in western Washington and Oregon–just a few years after similar flooding events hit the region in…
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Examples of Resistance in the Trump Era
There’s no denying it: the election of Donald Trump to another term in the White House has been a blow…
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State Forests Under Assault
For several years now, Washington’s state forestlands–specifically, the regenerated ecosystems known as legacy forests–have been a subject of heated controversy.…
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Can Cap-and-Invest Fix the Climate Crisis?
Federal climate action in the US is in a nosedive, with most policies and programs related to reducing carbon emissions…
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Hurricane Ridge: Journey to the Olympic Mountains Alpine
Whenever I visit an alpine environment I’m struck by the degree to which these ecosystems seem like a whole different…
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When Green Energy Goes Wrong
Above: watch the official teaser for These Sacred Hills I’ve dedicated a lot of time over the years to fighting…
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In Praise of Intergenerational Activism
Image: elders sit around the Christmas tree in the New York State Capitol last month, during a sit-in for climate…
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Washington State Will Help Lead the Climate Fight in the Next Trump Era
Last month’s election may have been a disaster for environmental progress at the national level–but state-level results tell a different…
Nick Engelfried 