Rage against the Manchin
By: Jonathan Lawson on
Climate advocates put pressure on lawmakers as western states suffer drought and extreme heat
By: Deepa Sivarajan on
With fossil fuels as the energy source for our buildings, we’re only going to see more unprecedented heat waves. We need to reduce our emissions and protect our communities. That’s where the movement towards clean, safe, all-electric buildings comes in.
By: Meredith Connolly on
HUGE NEWS from Salem!! House Bill 2021, which commits Oregon to 100% clean, carbon-free energy by 2040, was just passed by the state legislature!
By: Jonathan Lee on
TriMet doubles down on clean electricity, Keystone XL pipeline is cancelled, and carmakers up the ante on EVs.
By: Meredith Connolly on
23 days. That’s how much time is left in the legislative session in Salem.
By: Stephanie Noren on
Climate tailwinds in Oregon, Ford reigns EV, and Big Oil shakedown in this week's ClimateCast
By: Vlad Gutman-Britten on
Our hard-won, 2021 legislative wins on climate are motivated by the idea that tackling the climate crisis can help us create good jobs, it must advance the cause of racial justice, and it must begin to redress past harms and prevent future ones.
By: Jonathan Lee on
Washington State enters a new climate action phase, Oregon's EV incentives get a boost, and fossil fuels are declared incompatible with a healthy future.
By: Victoria Paykar on
We need your help now to get these important bills across the finish line this session and get more EVs on our roads. But the work won’t stop there.
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Increasingly, the Pacific Northwest sees the impacts of climate change in real time. Recently, catastrophic wildfires and wind and ice storms have placed a massive strain on our energy systems. In severe cases, customers have been left without power for days or weeks on end. Meanwhile, our policy climate is shifting decidedly toward a model of 100% clean electricity. Increasing reliance on variable resources raises questions of resource adequacy and reliability. How can we reliably heat and cool everyone’s homes, while keeping service affordable for all?
We’re used to thinking of transportation as the big source of greenhouse gas emissions.