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Tag Archives: Climate Crisis

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.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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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.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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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.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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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.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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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.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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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.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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The Ostrich Effect: Right wingers threatened by reality are putting their heads in the sand

Excerpt: A look at today’s world evokes the Armageddon worries we used to occasionally hear from Ronald Reagan.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Earth is heating up faster than many models suggested while humanity continues to dither

Excerpt: The climate crisis is a truly global concern. It has intensified in equatorial regions, yes, but also impacted our livable region and extended to both poles.
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Canada’s TransMountain pipeline expansion: A hideous crime against the climate

Excerpt: This must-read, highly illustrated story depicts how one of Canada's largest dirty petroleum infrastructure projects has become a feast for connoisseurs of ugliness.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Sorry, local Republicans, but higher gas prices aren’t the winning issue you think they are

Excerpt: Republicans seem to be calculating that once Washingtonians are frustrated enough with high gas prices, public support for policies like the Climate Commitment Act will evaporate. However, our research suggests they are wrong. 
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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The Earth is warning us of the consequences of continued climate inaction. Will we listen?

Excerpt: Consequences of climate damage have hit home this spring, from waters of the Atlantic Ocean to boreal forests of Alberta to the Mariana Islands of the Pacific Ocean. As our politicians fiddle with manufactured issues, the Earth burns.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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The oil sands province of Alberta: Where extreme weather meets extreme politics

Excerpt: The political climate of Canada’s oil producing province is being upstaged by Mother Nature. Prolonged heat and lightning have produced a natural climate emergency with fires blackening the skies and consuming more than 2.3 million acres in a not-so-merry month of May.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Washington is making important, long overdue investments in environmental equity

Excerpt: In this guest post for NPI, Senators Joe Nguyễn and Rebecca Saldaña explain how the Evergreen State is prioritizing equity in our response to the climate crisis.
Written by:Joe Nguyen and Rebecca Saldana
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Biden-Harris administration reportedly plans to approve Willow oil drilling project in Alaska

Excerpt: Environmental groups have campaigned against what the Sierra Club has described as “a climate disaster waiting to happen.” A change.org petition opposing Willow had drawn 3.1 million signatures and an estimated 1.1 million unique letters have descended on the White House.
Written by:Joel Connelly
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