Excerpt: | More than two-thirds of a sample of likely voters surveyed from November 14th-15th, 2023 by Public Policy Polling for NPI backed the idea of regulating unfair oil company business practices with pricing transparency legislation, which is what Senator Joe Nguyen's recently introduced Oil Industry Accountability Act (Senate Bill 6052) proposes to do. |
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Published at: | 2:09 PM on Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Other Categories: | Economic Security, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Consumer Protection, Energy & Power, Research Poll Findings |
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Category Archives: Our Environment
69% of likely 2024 Washington voters support the Oil Industry Accountability Act
Wild Olympics legislation clears Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee
Excerpt: | A bill designed to protect 126,500 acres of wilderness and put streams under the federal Wild and Scenic Rivers Act has been before Congress for more than a decade. In December of 2023, it cleared a key Senate committee. |
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Published at: | 11:35 AM on Friday, December 22nd, 2023 |
Written by: | Joel Connelly |
Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
Tags: | Conservation |
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Canada’s TransMountain pipeline is turning into the WPPSS of the Great White North
Excerpt: | The woolly mammoth went extinct in North America thousands of years ago, but a great white elephant is going to ground in British Columbia. |
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Published at: | 9:30 AM on Thursday, September 21st, 2023 |
Written by: | Joel Connelly |
Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
Tags: | Climate Crisis, Conservation, Energy & Power |
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Amidst a record fire season, British Columbia tries to get ready for future climate damage
Excerpt: | Eby is acting in a fire season in which 8,687 square miles have already burned, with one fire in northeast B.C. larger in size than the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. The province, once nicknamed Canada’s “lotus land”, has been hit with a succession of climate calamities in recent years. |
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Published at: | 11:33 AM on Thursday, September 14th, 2023 |
Written by: | Joel Connelly |
Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
Tags: | Climate Crisis, Wildfires |
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A reprieve for the Arctic Refuge: President Biden acts to protect lives and land alike
Excerpt: | The Arctic Refuge is the largest single unit of public lands in the nation, spanning more than 19 million acres. The 1.5 million acres of the Coastal Plain, left open to development by Congress, is its heart and soul, calving ground for more than 100,000 animals of the Porcupine Caribou Herd. |
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Published at: | 2:51 PM on Thursday, September 7th, 2023 |
Written by: | Joel Connelly |
Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
Tags: | Conservation |
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Courageous young Montanans have just won an important legal victory for climate justice
Excerpt: | “Plaintiffs have a fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment which includes climate as part of the environmental life support,” Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Kathy Seeley wrote in a groundbreaking opinion. |
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Published at: | 12:30 PM on Sunday, August 20th, 2023 |
Written by: | Joel Connelly |
Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
Tags: | Climate Crisis, Conservation |
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As climate catastrophes envelop the world, it’s business as usual for fossil fuel zealots
Excerpt: | The Earth is telling us as loudly as it can that it's got a fever. But a frighteningly large percentage of humanity isn't listening and doesn't care, a stance encouraged by fossil fuel zealots profiting from the planet's destruction. |
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Published at: | 12:30 PM on Saturday, August 19th, 2023 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
Tags: | Climate Crisis, Energy & Power |
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Medical Lake ordered to evacuate as fast-spreading Gray Fire consumes structures
Excerpt: | The blaze was one of three fires burning in Eastern Washington near Spokane as the weekend of August 18th-20th, 2023 began. |
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Published at: | 9:26 PM on Friday, August 18th, 2023 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Other Categories: | Breaking News, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
Tags: | Emergency Preparedness, Wildfires |
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Canada can’t catch a break: Raging fires now threaten Yellowknife and Kelowna, B.C.
Excerpt: | With a little over a month to go until the autumnal equinox, blazes are wreaking havoc across the country, with significant fires in every province and territory. |
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Published at: | 9:00 PM on Thursday, August 17th, 2023 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Other Categories: | Breaking News, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Climate Crisis |
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Kamala Harris talks climate damage amidst a summer of record heat and extreme weather
Excerpt: | “It is clear the clock is not just ticking, it is banging,” Harris told a crowd at the McKinstry, a Seattle based firm which has been a national leader in energy-efficient building construction. |
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Published at: | 7:30 PM on Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 |
Written by: | Joel Connelly |
Other Categories: | Events, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Climate Crisis, Energy & Power, Vice Presidential Visits |
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Taxes yield investments in our future: Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff announces new National Park Service conservation projects
Excerpt: | The projects announced by Emhoff are of particular importance to the Northern Rockies. The Park Service will go to work restoring sagebrush to Jackson Hole, in places once cleared by ranchers so they could grow hay. |
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Published at: | 6:45 PM on Thursday, August 10th, 2023 |
Written by: | Joel Connelly |
Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
Tags: | Conservation |
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A victory for tree retention in Seattle: Luma the western red cedar won’t be cut down
Excerpt: | Though initially uncooperative and resistant to appeals to protect the tree, Legacy, Rock House Builders (the property owner), and Bad Boyz GC (the contractor) have now agreed to leave Luma standing and modify their plans for the parcel. |
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Published at: | 4:32 PM on Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
Tags: | Affordable Housing, Conservation, Green Development |
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National Park Service to adopt reservation system for Mount Rainier National Park