News items for April 26, 2024
(Also showing draft and scheduled news items)
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1. Biden’s newest climate rule takes an aggressive swing at coal power plants
The EPA regulation comes amid the president’s continued struggles to assuage unhappiness among young, climate-minded voters.
Politico
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2. A land back victory for the Haida Nation
British Columbia affirms Indigenous ownership of the 200 islands the Haida have stewarded for millennia, marking a new path toward reconciliation.
Yes! Magazine
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3. American solar is in a trade war with itself
The American solar industry is in a tizzy over tariffs. On one side are the companies that develop, finance, and install solar systems. On the other, the American (or American-located) companies that manufacture them.
Heatmap
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4. Spokane joins lawsuit as city deals with forever chemicals contaminating water
Spokane has joined a lawsuit against the manufacturers of toxic chemicals known as PFAS after the discovery of the chemicals in parts of the city’s drinking water.
Public News Service
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5. As rivers run low, how will the West fill its hydroelectric power gap?
With rivers across the West running low, utilities must get creative if they are to meet demand without increasing emissions.
Grist
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6. Meet the tree-sitters who occupied a ponderosa pine in OR
The Oregon activists call attention to ongoing clearcuts in old-growth forests.
High Country News
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7. Wildlife habitat and tribal cultures threatened by WA’s largest wind farm
The newly approved renewable energy project is planned across an eco-corridor and ceremonial sites.
High Country News
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8. How a Japanese earthquake shook BC’s forest future
And what needs to change to protect the environment and jobs.
The Tyee
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9. Landowners, state, feds join forces on wildfire management in Grant County, OR
Landowners and federal agencies in rural Oregon don’t always have the best relationships. But landowners and managers in Grant County have been working with state and federal agencies to reduce wildfire risk.
Oregon Public Broadcasting
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10. Is Biden a public-lands protector?
The administration makes the biggest land-management moves in a half century.
High Country News
More News from April 26, 2024
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The high stakes of the Supreme Court’s decision on homelessness
Advocates fear that the case centering on an Oregon town’s ban on outdoor sleeping could usher in a wave of local laws criminalizing homelessness.
Bloomberg
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Energy efficiency standards for affordable housing gets a boost
Updated efficiency standards for new federal affordable housing construction could save lower-income renters and homeowners tens of millions of dollars each year.
Bloomberg
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The more plastic companies make, the more they pollute
A new study, drawing on five years of data collected across 84 countries, proves what seems self-evident.
Grist
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A comeback for WA’s gray wolf populations
“Recovery is happening right before our eyes.” The species grew by 20% in WA last year, but advocates warn against declaring victory too early.
Crosscut
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Oh, the places you’ll go (without a car)!
How one Portlander jumped into a car-free lifestyle.
BikePortland
