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Article by Sightline

Fate of state forests rests in Olympia

Over the next year, a half-dozen people in Olympia will decide the fate of forests vast enough to fill Mount Rainier National Park nearly nine times over.

Article by Sightline

Car-less In Seattle

Pedestrian pioneer Alan Durning describes what his family of five is learning by living without four wheels in Cascadia's largest city. Can they survive without the essential currency of the modern American community?

Backgrounder

Analysis: Increases in greenhouse-gas emissions from highway-widening projects (pdf)

Sightline researchers do the math on whether adding lanes adds greenhouse gas emissions--it does.

Backgrounder

Backgrounder: New population numbers for Washington State

Washington's population could double in less than fifty years, according to new research from Sightline Institute.

Fact sheet

Sightline Does the Math on the Seattle Viaduct

Sightline research director Clark Williams-Derry analyzes the Seattle viaduct debate and comes to a few simple conclusions.

Fact sheet

The Facts on I-985: A Bad Deal for Washington State

Sightline research director Clark Williams-Derry and Sightline fellow Doug MacDonald—former transportation secretary for Washington State--have taken a close look at Washington Initiative 985 and what it would mean for Washington residents. The verdict? I-985 is bad for traffic and bad for the state budget.

Fact sheet

Washington Scorecard 2007

How Washington stacks up in the seven key trends tracked by the Cascadia Scorecard.

Fact sheet

PBDEs and PCBs in the Northwest - Regional Data Sheet

Local data for Montana, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon on PBDEs and PCBs in northwesterners.

Fact sheet

Sprawl and Health Connections

Emerging research is discovering that the design and layout of your neighborhood can affect your health. Here's how.

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Wildlife Indicator - Caribou

Caribou are highly endangered in the lower 48 United States and British Columbia. The remaining population in the Northwest consists of the tiny Selkirk herd, which occupies a small area of northeast Washington, northern Idaho, and an adjacent portion of BC.

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Wildlife Indicator - Orcas

Sightline's wildlife index tracks the southern resident orcas that inhabit the inland seas of Washington and British Columbia.

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Wildlife Indicator - Chinook Salmon

No creature, beside humans, penetrates the Pacific Northwest as thoroughly as salmon. The wildlife index tracks Chinook salmon returning as adults to the Bonneville Dam, the lowest dam on the Columbia River.

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Trouble at Paradise: Urban air pollution travels to Mt. Rainier

The mountain air near the Pacific Northwest’s biggest cities may be worse than the air in those cities—at least in terms of round-the-clock levels of one pollutant, ozone.

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Curbing Stormwater Pollution

Stormwater doesn't match the traditional image of pollution. There are no factory smokestacks belching waste. Yet polluted stormwater packs a punch. Sightline's report, Curbing Stormwater Pollution, looks at the challenges we face and the opportunities we have to clean up our waterways.

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Climate Policy: Fair and Effective Solutions

What makes smart climate policy? How can we be sure it is fair, effective, and efficient? Read primers, fact sheets, and reports on how to do climate policy right.