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We're closing in on our $1 million goal!

by Gregg Small on

We are incredibly close to reaching our $1 million fundraising goal for our audacious 100% clean energy vision. Can you help close the gap?

Twenty years of Climate Solutions: a retrospective

by Jonathan Lawson on

In our first 20 years, Climate Solutions helped resolve much uncertainty about the facts of climate change, and the prospects for solutions. There's every reason for hope; the fateful question now is whether we will act, and whether we’ll do it fast enough.

Climate diaries, revisited

by Paul Horton on

One of our co-founders recalls the Montana roots of his environmental advocacy, and notes that Climate Solutions' early strategy of bringing people together across differences to talk solutions remains a key to solving the climate crisis.

Buses drive into the future with electric fleets

by Devon Downeysmith on

The transportation sector's immense contribution to global warming makes it a very important place to reduce emissions. That and more new climate and clean energy news in the latest ClimateCast.

I-1631: Coming together to protect Washington and a healthy future

by Vlad Gutman-Britten on

The people of Washington have the opportunity to win one of the most ambitious, effective and far reaching policies to tackle climate change.

Workers climbing wind turbines to the middle class

by Devon Downeysmith on

Clean energy investment is good for business; clean energy jobs are good for communities; the economic benefits of carbon pricing and more in the latest ClimateCast.

EPA boss keeps denying, seas keep rising

by Devon Downeysmith on

A deregulatory push at the EPA is met by resistance from state governments. Solar projects grow in scale as well as number. States, cities and towns respond to climate threats with resiliency measures as well as with clean energy planning.

EPA won’t be able to roll back auto standards. States and communities won’t have it.

by KC Golden on

Scott Pruitt is hastily trying to scuttle one of EPA’s signature achievements of the last decade: stronger vehicle emissions and fuel economy standards. But he’s swimming against the tide of economics, technology, and overwhelming public support. And the state governments that won these standards aren’t going to give them up.

Washington can't stop, won't stop pushing for climate leadership

by Vlad Gutman-Britten on

Washington's Legislature failed—again—to enact the kind of bold climate solutions we need and are ready for. Here's what happened, and here's why we can't stop and won't stop working to make the Evergreen State a climate leadership state.

Solar shines, and renewables rise around the world

by Devon Downeysmith on

In this week's ClimateCast: solar and wind continue to prove their resilience; new calls for climate justice, and why it's really time to talk about electrifying everything.

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This fall, the Northwest won big on climate action

Despite a bleak outlook for climate action nationally, the people of the Pacific Northwest showed up in a big way this November, demonstrating that when communities get organized and work together for a healthier future, we can accomplish remarkable victories.