News items for April 6, 2021
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1. Young activists include justice in their fight against climate change
Though environmental activism always was aimed at an existential threat, the tenor of today’s youth-driven efforts often is colored with a sense of imminent catastrophe and a special focus on those most likely to be injured.
Eugene Register Guard
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2. Could a carbon tax find its way through the WA legislature?
Twists in the carbon-emission-reduction conversation could reshape any grand bargain between Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Jay Inslee on climate change policy.
Everett Herald
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3. Views: Is clean energy racist? It doesn’t have to be
When you can’t afford the car repair and the childcare to get to your job, you’re sure not thinking about installing solar panels and getting a sweet deal on a whole-house battery. That’s a White folks thing. But it doesn’t have to be.
Portland Tribune
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4. In Alaska a community land trust helps a mom build a home of her own
An affordable housing model that has been around for 50 years has become more popular over the last decade.
Alaska Public Media
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5. Montana counties band together to reinvigorate passenger rail
Proponents are approaching passenger rail as an engine of equity across a politically and economically divided state.
High Country News
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6. ‘Compassion Seattle’ proposal would provide housing, services
A coalition of business and community leaders wants to put to Seattle voters a comprehensive strategy of housing, services, and clearance resources to address the city’s longrunning homelessness crisis.
Capitol Hill Seattle Blog
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7. How the pandemic has changed homeless services
The pandemic has changed some of the ways cities and counties have handled homelessness. Some of those changes include allowing more camps and homeless villages, paying for people to stay in motels and more access to public restrooms.
Oregon Public Broadcasting
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8. Labor board says Amazon illegally fired outspoken workers
Both employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, worked at Amazon offices in Seattle and publicly criticized the company, pushing it to do more to reduce its impact on climate change and to better protect warehouse workers from the coronavirus.
SFGATE
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9. Portland-based grocery chain to eliminate the sale of single use water bottles
The Northwest grocery store chain New Seasons Market announced it will eliminate the sale of single use bottles of water in all of its stores by Earth Day, to continue its work to reduce plastic waste in local communities.
Oregon Public Broadcasting
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10. From art to infrastructure, the New Deal shaped Seattle’s future
Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan takes inspiration from the massive public works effort that helped shape the Emerald City, and America, for generations.
Crosscut
More News from April 6, 2021
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Listen: A change is coming to local weather forecasts
Next month, the temperature averages meteorologists use will get an update. It means the warmer climate will — quite literally — become the new “normal,” posing a challenge for forecasters.
KUOW