Oregon is on the cusp of a climate protection breakthrough in 2018. The state legislature is weighing the Clean Energy Jobs bill, a remarkable opportunity to join its West Coast neighbors in lowering carbon pollution while raising money to invest in clean energy and transportation. The money raised would also provide assistance for low-income state … Read more
Sightline fellow Daniel Malarkey has already made the case for why Cascadia could thrive by embracing fleets of autonomous electric vehicles, as well as spelling out the downsides of such fleets and how to avoid them. Last week, Daniel was interviewed on Q13’s newscast about the future of self-driving cars in the Seattle area. You can … Read more
Soccer players are notorious for dramatizing injuries, writhing on the ground in apparent agony, appealing to the referee to punish the other team for inflicting such pain. Once the ref makes the call, they jump up and run back on the field. Industry players do the same thing every time the public tries to put … Read more
Despite the Trump administration’s promise of a coal industry rebound, data from the US Energy Information Administration show that King Coal actually lost crucial ground in 2017: the nation’s electric utilities produced even less power from coal over the first 11 months of last year than they did over the same period in 2016. It was … Read more
After long years of negotiation, Oregon could be ready to make polluters pay and invest the revenue in the state. But as the legislature convenes for a whirlwind one-month session, a surprising opponent is appearing on stage: Portland General Electric (PGE). PGE, the electric utility serving customers from Portland to Salem, likes to tell people … Read more
Lawmakers in Oregon are poised to decide on the Oregon Clean Energy Jobs Bill, a move to either fulfill long-held global warming commitments or press pause yet again. Policymakers might get cold feet; the usual corporate stall tactics are rolling in. But what do people in Oregon think? Oregon is a state often divided by … Read more
Author’s note: Jameson Quinn and Jack Santucci have pointed out this method was proposed in 1884 as “The Gove Method.” Here at Sightline, we’re fans of proportional representation, including multi-winner ranked-choice voting. We recently conducted focus groups to find out what voters in Oregon and Washington think about proportional representation. (Sightline director of strategic … Read more
Today, Governor Inslee delivered the coup de grâce to the proposed Vancouver Energy oil terminal. Planned for a site within blast radius of downtown Vancouver, Washington, the facility would have been North America’s biggest oil train depot, drawing at least 5 dangerous oil trains each day across the interior Northwest to the banks of the … Read more
Facebook announced earlier in January that it would overhaul users’ feeds, placing more of an emphasis on posts from family and friends and less on posts from businesses, brands, and media. An organization like ours falls squarely in the latter group by Facebook’s definition. And with nearly 12,500 of you following us on this platform … Read more
