Paelina DeStephano
Paelina DeStephano aids organizations in their research needs, focusing her efforts on environmental policy and Puget Sound restoration. She’s a Seattle local with a background in international development and global health.
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The Cost of a Salish Sea Oil Spill? We Still Don’t Know
Editor’s note, 1/27/20: This article has been updated with an addendum. An oil spill in the Salish Sea could be ...
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How Does Climate Change Affect Northwest Wildfires?
Wildfires have seemed inescapable in the Northwest the past few summers after record-setting conflagrations erupted in the region’s prized forests. ...
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The Most Important Political Race You’ve Never Heard Of
Evergreen State voters have some big decisions to make by November 6, including a headline-grabbing contest over carbon fees. But ...
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Big Oil Would Be the Only Beneficiary If Its Big Spending Takes Down I-1631
We have seen this act before. Every time a state tries to make polluters pay and looks like it could ...
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Heritage Foundation Will Peddle Anti-climate Agenda at Crucial Oregon Hearing
The success of the right-wing Heritage Foundation has been so effective in Washington DC with the Trump administration that its ...
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Jordan Cove Energy Project, LNG facility may harm water quality, salmon runs
Southern Oregon regulators, Native American tribes, and local communities are worried that a proposed fossil fuel facility will, among other ...
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What Consumes More Gas than Many of Cascadia’s Cities Combined?
The methanol refinery proposed for Kalama, Washington, is, by any measure, a goliath. On the banks of the Columbia River in ...
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The Seattle Pipeline Expansion You’ve Never Heard Of
The Seattle area is home to a gas pipeline project with the potential to increase Washington’s carbon emissions by a ...
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How the Fracked Gas Industry Plays Politics in Washington
The gas industry has big designs on the Northwest. In Washington alone, its agents are busy in practically every corner ...
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Meet the Well-Funded Players Working Hard to Thwart Oregon’s Climate Progress
Oregon is on the cusp of a climate protection breakthrough in 2018. The state legislature is weighing the Clean Energy ...
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