Climate & Energy
-
Northwest Gas Projects Fuel the Fracking Beast
Methanol, LNG, and power plants drive Canada’s gas industry. -
Hurricane Harvey Highlights Fossil Fuel and Petrochemical Loopholes
Lessons for the Northwest’s disaster preparedness. -
Weekend Reading 10/13/17
Clean energy discoveries, tools to teach without omitting tribal perspective, gerrymanderproofing, and lots more. -
Video: How Can We Strengthen Our Democracy and Climate Movements?
Sightline’s Tarika Powell and Margaret Morales offer smart solutions. -
Event: “Kwel’Hoy, We Draw the Line!”
Join the Lummi Nation's totem pole journey and stand up to dirty energy. -
Do Hurricanes Wake Us Up?
It depends on your partisan worldview—and bumps in climate change concern may not last long. -
BC Is Increasing Its Carbon Tax!
After five years of stagnation, the tax will go up and pollution will go down. -
-
Trump’s EPA Wants to Reverse Clean Water Protections
Removing the rule would put drinking water, rivers, and wildlife at risk. Here’s a chance to weigh in.
Climate change and ocean acidification are already costing the Northwest big: they are killing our shellfish, igniting massive wildfires, causing floods and landslides, and upping asthma rates and other public health impacts across the region. We face a critical juncture in deciding our future. As the greenest region of the wealthiest country in history, we stand as a thin green line between inland US coal, oil, and gas and fickle Asian energy markets eager to burn our fuel and send us the pollution.
We also have the opportunity to rise as a climate policy leader and make polluters pay for their carbon pollution. Oregon and Washington State could enact world-class carbon pricing measures, joining British Columbia and California to form a powerful West Coast bloc committed to a cleaner future, to polluter accountability, and to a healthier climate. Sightline Institute’s climate and energy research answers the big questions on how best to achieve this vision.
Series in Climate & Energy
-
Cashing In Our Carbon
How and why Oregon and Washington should follow British Columbia's lead and start cashing in on carbon pollution. -
Northwest Coal & Oil Exports
The facts on coal exports, oil trains, and the real costs of these schemes for our region and climate. -
Cascadia Climate Action
What Cascadia is doing to make polluters pay. -
Northwest Ocean Acidification
This series explores the local costs of ocean acidification –the process by which water absorbs too much carbon pollution, becoming more corrosive.
Recent Reports & Graphics
-
Northwest Targets: Communities Threatened by Coal, Oil, and Gas
Risk assessment shows Columbia River, Tacoma, and Cherry Point are in the crosshairs of the fossil fuel industry. -
Mapping BC’s LNG Proposals
Twenty projects stall as provincial government’s liquefied natural gas ‘gold rush’ busts.
Press Clips
-
Locals and Tribes March Together to Oppose Construction of Natural Gas Plant
Yes! Magazine August 15, 2017
-
Pipelines & Battle Lines
Pacific Sun June 28, 2017
-
The Pacific Northwest is Proving Grassroots Action Against Fossil Fuels Can Work
Fusion June 6, 2017