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Now that Northwest communities have turned back nearly every coal and oil

project proposed for the region, the "natural" gas industry is upping its

ante in the Northwest. Actually before massive oil and coal export terminals

began to threaten Oregon and Washington, Liquid N...

For four and a half years community and climate activists, health care

workers, teachers, longshoremen and first responders in the

Portland-Vancouver region have been working hard to stop the largest

oil-by-rail terminal in North America, from being built at the Port of

Va...

Last week, the bulk of the National Parks Service advisory board resigned en

masse in condemnation of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's abject indifference

to climate change and the department's massive roll back of protections for

public lands. This comes on top of the Trump...

This spring, Oregon has the opportunity to take a major step in the

transition from polluting energy to a clean energy future. The Clean Energy

Jobs bill, currently being considered by the Oregon legislature, limits

climate pollution and invests in clean energy strategies t...

Donald Trump is targeting the Pacific Northwest for accelerated fossil fuel

development. He brought the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay back from

the dead, designating it as the highest priority site for LNG development on

the West Coast. And now he is opening up the c...

Toward the end of 2016 Sightline Institute's Programs Director Eric de Place

created a Trump Time Capsule project. He sent out an email to his friends and

colleagues asking them to write down their predictions for the future, trying

to envision the unusual events and disrup...

As you celebrate the holidays this week, we are rerunning this program about

the insidious problems created by plastic pollution. Something to think about

as you figure out how to dispose of all that holiday packaging. This program

originally aired on November 6, 2017.

New...

For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged

the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire “the

Beast.” It acted like a mythical animal, alive with destructive energy, and

they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet i...

The Portland Harbor Superfund site is a highly contaminated stretch of the

Willamette River that extends approximately 10 miles, beginning near the

confluence with the Columbia River and stretching to the Fremont Bridge. In

2000 this area was designated a Federal Superfund ...

What will the future of food look like? Some say the only way we will be

able to feed ourselves in the future is through an expansion of agribusiness,

reliant on GMOs and pesticides. But there is another vision of the future

that involves creating crops that regenerate the ...