The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a netroots powered strategy center working to raise America's quality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | By a vote of thirty-six to twenty-four, lawmakers in Oregon's more populous legislative chamber advanced House Bill 2020, a landmark climate justice bill. |
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| Published at: | 11:46 PM on Monday, June 17th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | It's time to accelerate the clean energy revolution in the Pacific Northwest! Let's get HB 2020 passed and to the desk of Governor Kate Brown to be signed into law. |
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| Published at: | 2:33 PM on Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis |
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| Excerpt: | Governor Jay Inslee has signed a bill to ban fracking in Washington and dropped his support for two dirty gas projects, further burnishing his green credentials. |
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| Published at: | 12:14 PM on Thursday, May 9th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis |
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| Excerpt: | Founding NPI boardmember Gael Tarleton led the way in making Washington's new one hundred percent clean electricity bill a reality. Read her bill signing remarks. |
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| Published at: | 1:14 PM on Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Gael Tarleton |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | Caring for the Earth, our common home, is a value people across Cascadia share. The State of Washington has affirmed that value by committing itself to a one hundred percent clean electric grid by 2045. |
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| Published at: | 6:16 PM on Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Conservation |
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| Excerpt: | The 2019 Washington State legislative session has adjourned Sine Die. Read NPI's recap of the session. |
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| Published at: | 12:55 AM on Monday, April 29th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Healthcare, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Budgeting, Climate Crisis, Conservation, Fiscal Responsibility, Insurance & Coverage, Nondiscrimination, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | We've just taken another step towards a future where we meet our energy needs more sustainably and responsibly than we have for the past few centuries. |
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| Published at: | 8:31 PM on Monday, April 22nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | Landmark legislation that would commit Washington State to a renewable energy future is one step closer to reaching Governor Jay Inslee's desk. |
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| Published at: | 7:33 PM on Thursday, April 11th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Energy & Power |
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| Excerpt: | Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, could soon be banned in Washington State if a bill approved by the Senate on February 13th, 2019 becomes law. |
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| Published at: | 12:53 PM on Wednesday, February 13th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Conservation |
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| Excerpt: | Since I-1631 is unfortunately not going to become law in December, we need to get to work developing a new climate action plan, pronto. |
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| Published at: | 6:37 PM on Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Conservation, Pollution, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | It's time to act on climate! Read Gael Tarleton's speech thanking the Washington Conservation Voters for recognizing her as their Legislator of the Year and calling for passage of I-1631. |
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| Published at: | 10:23 AM on Friday, October 12th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Gael Tarleton |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Conservation, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | VICTORY! A Canadian court has dealt a MASSIVE blow to the TransMountain oil pipeline that Justin Trudeau wants to build to pump oil out of Alberta to B.C.'s coast. The pipeline may not be built now. Learn about this huge win for indigenous peoples, climate justice, and our orcas. |
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| Published at: | 1:12 PM on Thursday, August 30th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, Pollution |
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| Excerpt: | The expansion of the Trans-Mountain Pipeline is a threat to the Salish Sea that should not be allowed to become yesterday's news. |
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| Published at: | 8:45 AM on Monday, July 9th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Brad Fenstermacher |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Open Government, World Commmunity |
| Other Tags: | Indigenous Peoples |
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| Excerpt: | Following the Legislature's failure to reach agreement on a plan to put a price on pollution in Washington State, the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy (of which NPI is a member) has announced that it is moving forward with plans to qualify an initiative to the November ballot that would impose a fee on emissions. |
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| Published at: | 12:21 PM on Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Pollution, WA-Ballot |
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