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Climate + Energy

Cascadia’s clean energy transition

Transitioning off coal, oil, and gas to a future of abundant clean energy.  

Latest research + analysis

Climate + Energy

Lessons for Washington State Leaders as Another US Oil Refinery Closes

In a state home to five oil refineries, a forthcoming, taxpayer-funded study can answer some central questions.

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One of Washington’s Anti-Climate Initiatives, 2066, Eked Out a Victory. Why?

And how leaders can still help families and businesses electrify for safer, cleaner buildings in line with the state’s climate values.
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Four Ways Gov.-elect Ferguson and Washington Lawmakers Can Build on the State’s Big Climate Win

After Washingtonians overwhelmingly voted to keep the Climate Commitment Act, their leaders have powerful opportunities ahead.
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Correcting the Record on Initiative 2066

What the Seattle Times editorial board got wrong about the Washington ballot measure.
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The Contradiction of a Split Vote on Washington’s Anti-Climate Ballot Initiatives

Initiatives 2066 and 2117 are closely linked, but polls and endorsements diverge.
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Emily Moore

Director of Climate + Energy

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Meet the Team

Emily Moore

Director of Climate and Energy

Emily leads Sightline’s work transitioning Cascadia away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner energy sources.

Laura Feinstein

Energy Policy Research Fellow

Laura is a fellow with Sightline Institute, focused on energy policy, particularly natural gas infrastructure and building decarbonization.

Climate change is costing the Northwest big, causing suffocating wildfires, devastating droughts, and inhospitable marine ecosystems. But for more than a decade, Cascadian communities have stood as a bulwark against the fossil fuel industry’s aggressive schemes for dozens of coal, oil, and gas projects. Now, the region boasts some of the world’s most ambitious climate commitments and faces the urgent and enormous challenge of seeing them to fruition.  

Sightline’s Climate and Energy program focuses on achieving that vision, including by building out vast amounts of clean energy infrastructure, retiring old and polluting energy systems, and transitioning millions of homes and businesses off of gas-fueled appliances and infrastructure—and doing all of this equitably and responsibly.

Learn more about our Climate + Energy research projects below.

Building Cascadia’s clean electric grid

Research and policy recommendations to remove the barriers to new electric transmission capacity in the Northwest.

Transitioning off gas 

Research and policy recommendations to prune the gas system, scale electrification, and protect ratepayers.

Fighting fossil fuel export projects 

A decade of successes against fossil fuel exports in Cascadia.

Myth-busting hydrogen and renewable natural gas

Research and policy recommendations to prune the gas system, scale electrification, and protect ratepayers.