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Two months ago the Guardian reported that opponents of the Jordan Cove LNG

terminal and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline were under increasing

surveillance by local law enforcement and the FBI. This came as little

surprise to many activists who have suspected that their phone...

Eric de Place, the director of the Thin Green Line at Sightline Institute in

Seattle has broadened his portfolio beyond the Northwest and is now sharing

the lessons learned in the Northwest about how to stop fossil fuel

projects with environmentalists working to stop fracki...

For centuries, three unique pods of orcas have hunted chinook salmon along

the northwestern Pacific coast. Yet wild chinook salmon here are

increasingly scarce. The orcas are going hungry, their numbers dwindling

along with their primary source of food. Extinction looms for...

On July 6, 2013, a train hauling crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken region

derailed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, resulting in fires and explosions that

killed 47 people and wiped out a large part of the small Canadian town's

center. In the six months following the deadly disa...

A few weeks ago the Guardian broke a chilling story: Law enforcement groups,

including the FBI, have been monitoring opponents of a natural gas

infrastructure project in Oregon and circulated intelligence to an email list

that included a Republican-aligned anti-environment...

Last week, the people of Tacoma received a glossy mailer from Puget Sound

Energy touting their proposed Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) facility that has

been nearly completed without the proper permits. In the mailer, residents

were told: LNG is cleaner. Tacoma LNG will reduce g...

This program aired originally on July 1, 2019

For nearly five years the community of Kalama has been fighting the world's

largest methanol refinery proposed for the Port of Kalama. Until recently the

community felt isolated and invisible as they struggled to stop this ma...

A few months ago, the Portland community woke up to learn that there was a

secret plan to turn our city into a hub for exporting tar sands crude oil. A

Texas company, Zenith Energy, bought a moribund asphalt terminal at the Port

of Portland and was surreptitiously expanding...

This program aired originally on July 15, 2019

Have you wondered how Zenith Energy got a foothold in Portland to expand a

moribund asphalt terminal into the largest tar sands export terminal on the

West Coast? An investigative report, to be released on July 15, 2019, by ...

This program aired originally on May 27, 2019

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about

climate change in his groundbreaking book The End of Nature, which was the

first book to alert us to global warming. In his latest book FALTER: Has

th...