Publication: KUOW

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced measures this week to cut the city’s stubborn carbon emissions, including more electric-vehicle charging stations and a program for e-cargo bike deliveries. To meet its science-based targets for helping the world hang on to a livable climate, Seattle needs to cut emissions nearly in half by 2030.

Dozens of people across Washington state who worked at national parks and forests have lost their jobs in recent weeks, as part of sweeping overhaul of the federal workforce by the Republican administration. Those firings could cause ripple effects across state programs that benefit hikers, backpackers, and mountain bikers.

Students at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon are trying to bring more attention to one of the world’s smaller and often overlooked plants with this year’s seventh annual Moss Appreciation Week.

Nine Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees in Seattle have been put on leave by the Trump Administration because they work on environmental justice. Their jobs involve helping communities that breathe, eat, and drink more than their fair share of pollution.

Before the milk gets to the creamery, the cows have to cut the cheese. A group of House Democrats in Washington have smelt this contribution to climate change, and have dealt a proposal to measure it.

Funding for social housing is on the ballot in Seattle’s upcoming special election. The debate surrounding how to fund social housing has raised a big question: Who are we building affordable housing for?

Washington state disclosed its impact on the global climate this week, two years later than required by state law. How well Washington state is doing in the race to save the climate is mostly unknown, with results revealed years after the fact.

After sharply dropping 14% in 2020 with the reduced commuting and economic activity of the Covid-19 pandemic, the state’s carbon dioxide emissions have bounced back 7% since then.