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Kinder Morgan drops plans for coal export terminal at Port of St. Helens
Terminal developer Kinder Morgan will not go forward with a proposal to export coal to Asia from the Port Westward industrial park on the Columbia River, a company spokesman said this morning.
Oregon businesses flexing their muscles on climate change
Chin up, Rip City, we’ve got some good news for you. Though the Portland Trail Blazers missed the playoffs this year, they’ve given us something to cheer about by providing leadership off the court on an issue that affects us all: global warming.
Seattle plan would make city carbon neutral by 2050
Seattle officials unveil a 37-year climate action plan for the city.
Obama might actually be the environmental president
His climate-change policy has been an abject failure, says Al Gore and just about everyone else. They’re wrong. Here’s why.
Solar jobs beat out ranchers in Texas, actors in California, and coal miners nationally
California, the state that the Hollywood film industry calls home, can boast 43,700 paying jobs in the solar industry in 2012, versus only 32,300 paid actors. Texas clocked in with 3,200 solar jobs, in comparison to the state’s 270 to 2,410 ranchers. And across the entire nation, 119,000 Americans were employed by the solar industry in 2012, versus only 87,500 by the coal mining industry.
