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Better transit, safer streets, cleaner air for Portland: Vote YES on Measure 26-218

by Meredith Connolly and Victoria Paykar and Sara Wright on

Climate Solutions and Oregon Environmental Council proudly endorse Let’s Get Moving 2020. Don’t miss your chance to vote YES on Measure 26-218 at the bottom of your ballot.

Seattle's Proposition 1: Yes to transit!

by Leah Missik on

To address the climate crisis, clean up our air, and protect our communities' health, we need more clean-energy transit.

Ready for a gasoline-free future? CA is

by Jonathan Lawson on

California is ready to quit gas-fueled cars... a presidential legacy of intentional climate inaction... and the latest news on climate and clean energy

Cap-and-reduce: Will DEQ step up to the plate?

by Zach Baker on

By no longer allowing industries to spew unlimited amounts of pollution into our air, DEQ's new cap-and-reduce policy can help transition Oregon to cleaner ways of powering our economy and communities.

What the hell just happened?

by Stephanie Noren on

An unprecedented use of the word "unprecedented" in describing recent climate impacts. For many across the West Coast, the end of summer has been harrowing with hellish wildfires and living under unchanging grey and smoky skies, or watching the slow march of flood waters rise in the streets. We’re living through extraordinarily complex and challenging times, and continuous news coverage of multiple crises can feel extreme and extractive.

Support our fire-impacted neighbors in Southern Oregon

by Jonathan Lee on

Thousands of people in the Rogue Valley have been displaced by wildfires and hundreds of homes, businesses, and community spaces have been destroyed, including the headquarters of our grassroots partner Rogue Climate.

It doesn't have to feel like Life on Mars

by Gregg Small on

Our climate movement is more unified than ever, but we're reaching a critical point where we must change a lot of things all at once. Let's do this together.

3 ways to cope with the smoke

by Jonathan Lee on

If you live west of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest, you likely woke up yesterday to an awful late-summer surprise (if you weren't under wildfire threat already): a blanket of unhealthy wildfire smoke.

Hope is huge. But is it enough?

by Jonathan Lawson on

Big oil takes heat for lobbying against clean energy... plus more of the latest climate news.

Cap-and-reduce: What’s at stake as DEQ kicks off program design

by Zach Baker on

One major component of the Oregon Climate Action Plan is a directive for the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to set up a new program to “cap and reduce” climate-harming pollution from Oregon’s large polluters.

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