News items for June 25, 2019

The local Green New Deal campaign is calling on City Hall to eliminate Seattle’s climate pollution by 2030, “address historical and current injustices” and create thousands of green, unionized jobs.

The fate of a sweeping climate change proposal that prompted Senate Republicans to abandon the statehouse appeared in doubt, as both sides continued negotiations to end the standoff.

Two new programs in King and Snohomish counties take different approaches to catch minors who are falling through the cracks.

Walkable urbanism isn’t just sustainable and enjoyable, it’s also more profitable.

Estimated to cost Canadian communities $5 billion a year by 2020, the price-tag of responding to climate change impacts could grow to $43 billion a year by 2050.

The new plan would end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, block the development of future oil infrastructure, and ultimately result in a complete phase out of fossil fuel production.

The inescapable conclusion is that old-growth logging contributes millions of tonnes annually to provincial carbon dioxide emissions.

Cities and rural areas alike are girding themselves for another summer of sooty skies along the West Coast and in the Rocky Mountains — the regions widely expected to suffer most from blazes tied to dryer, warmer conditions.

Federal officials have released their review on removing or changing vegetation over a huge swath of the U.S. West to stop wildfires on land used for cattle ranching, recreation and habitat for imperiled sage grouse.

Ecological grief is the grief, pain, sadness or suffering that people identify as experiencing when they lose a beloved ecosystem, species or place.