The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | The Interior Secretary is making a cultural and conservation case to President Biden: Restore national monuments in Utah and New England that were brutally and unilaterally cut by the Trump regime. |
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| Published at: | 2:29 PM on Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Conservation |
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| Excerpt: | The U.S. Department of Agriculture will “repeal or replace” a decision that removed the Tongass from a Clinton-era Roadless Rule that had protected more than nine million acres of the 16.9 million-acre national forest. |
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| Published at: | 6:42 PM on Friday, June 11th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis |
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| Excerpt: | One of America's greatest treasures appears to have won an eleventh hour reprieve from being despoiled by oil driving. But a large nearby oil drilling project continues to enjoy the support of the federal government. |
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| Published at: | 7:12 PM on Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Energy & Power, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | The Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act designates approximately 1.5 million acres of public land as wilderness and incorporates more than 1,200 river miles into the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. |
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| Published at: | 6:00 PM on Friday, February 26th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Conservation |
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| Excerpt: | While the U.S.-Canada border remains closed to non-essential traffic, neither the pandemic shutdown nor the 49th Parallel and Strait of Juan de Fuca have obstructed the bonding between Washington and British Columbia. |
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| Published at: | 11:20 AM on Saturday, December 26th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Diplomacy & Conflict, Energy & Power |
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| Excerpt: | Two decades ago, the river valley was rapidly becoming a mountain crime zone and trash dump. It has since been cleaned up and restored. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Monday, December 14th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Conservation |
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| Excerpt: | Dozens of publicly governed conservation districts will be holding elections for board supervisor positions this winter and spring. In this guest post, King Conservation District Supervisor Chris Porter explains why progressive activists and community leaders should step up, run, and win. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | WA-Local |
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| Excerpt: | For decades, Washington State's junior senator has been patiently and strategically fighting to protect America's wild places and fisheries. Those efforts have met with success even with Donald Trump in office. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Energy & Power |
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| Excerpt: | Firefighters report that they are stretched thin and simply don't have the humanpower or the resources to properly fight the destructive blazes. |
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| Published at: | 10:35 PM on Wednesday, September 9th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | A coalition of states from the Left Coast, Great Lakes region, and New England is going to court to stop the desecration of America's greatest wilderness. |
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| Published at: | 2:35 PM on Wednesday, September 9th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Energy & Power, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | The world is grappling with a novel coronavirus pandemic while climate damage grows ever worse. Netroots Nation 2020 decided to explore how systemic inequality defines both fights. |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Thursday, August 13th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Bobby Aiyer |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Events, Our Environment, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Global Health, Netroots Nation, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | Earth Day, one of our favorite days of activism, has turned fifty. Here are some great articles you can read and videos you can watch to commemorate the occasion. |
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| Published at: | 10:00 PM on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 |
| Written by: | Rich Erwin |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Holidays, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Earth Day, Green Development, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | Legislation that would ban single use plastic bags at the statewide level is one step closer to becoming law thanks to a big vote today in the Washington State House of Representatives in support of Mona Das' ESSB 5323. |
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| Published at: | 12:57 PM on Saturday, March 7th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | A stickler for the rule of law, Washington's chief law enforcement officer has repeatedly taken on the Trump regime... and won. |
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| Published at: | 10:00 AM on Sunday, February 23rd, 2020 |
| Written by: | Richard McCartan |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Economic Security, Healthcare, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Consumer Protection, Reproductive Rights |
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