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, Energy & Power |
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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, Energy & Power |
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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, Energy & Power, Fiscal Responsibility, Insurance & Coverage, Nondiscrimination |
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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, Energy & Power |
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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, Energy & Power, 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, Energy & Power |
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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, Energy & Power |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of "A Plastic Ocean". Stream the film on Netflix, or rent or buy it on YouTube, Google Play, or iTunes. You can also request to host a screening, check out the schedule of screenings, or rent or buy the film directly from Plastic Oceans Foundation. |
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| Published at: | 12:23 PM on Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Categories: | Our Environment, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Conservation |
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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: | Energy & Power, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | A bill that would phase out the farming of invasive, nonnative fish in Washington's waters and entirely prohibit it in the future has left the Legislature tonight and is on its way to Governor Inslee following a successful vote in the Senate. |
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| Published at: | 8:27 PM on Friday, March 2nd, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Sustainable Farms |
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| Excerpt: | A great many people in the progressive movement have been warning that it would only be a matter of time before an insufficiently-secured coal or oil train derailed here in the Pacific Northwest. And now, it’s happened: A multi-car oil train derailment Friday in the Columbia River Gorge near Mosier sent up a massive plume […] |
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| Published at: | 5:27 PM on Friday, June 3rd, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning |
| Other Tags: | Safe Neighorhoods |
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| Excerpt: | Yesterday, during the middle day of its 2016 winter meeting, the Washington State Democratic Party went on record as opposed to CarbonWA’s I-732, joining the Washington State Labor Council and IAM’s District Lodge 751 in the no camp. I-732 is a complex tax swap proposal that would levy a carbon tax while also reducing sales […] |
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| Published at: | 7:05 PM on Sunday, January 31st, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Climate Crisis, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | The Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, a federation of more than six hundred unions representing nearly half a million workers in Washington State, announced today that it has taken a position formally opposing CarbonWA’s I-732, which backers have advertised as a “revenue neutral” tax swap that would levy a tax on emissions of gases like […] |
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| Published at: | 2:40 PM on Thursday, January 28th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Budgeting, Fiscal Responsibility |
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| Excerpt: | CarbonWA’s Initiative 732, a supposedly “revenue neutral” proposal to levy a statewide tax on carbon emissions while lowering Washington’s sales and B&O taxes, has narrowly qualified as an initiative to the 2016 Legislature following a random sample check, says the chief spokesman for Secretary of State Kim Wyman. In an early evening press release, Wyman’s […] |
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| Published at: | 6:47 PM on Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Other Tags: | Budgeting, Fiscal Responsibility, WA-Ballot |
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