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Cascadia’s clean energy transition

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

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The 1,083-Page Environmental Assessment That Ignores Climate Change and Tribes

The Northwest needs a better way to evaluate power line projects.

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The 1,083-Page Environmental Assessment That Ignores Climate Change and Tribes

The Northwest needs a better way to evaluate power line projects.
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Northwest Data Centers: A Climate Test and Potential Opportunity

A Sightline report finds that—with the right policies—the region could harness data center demand for clean power to decarbonize the broader economy.
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Ending Subsidies for New Gas Hook-Ups Can Save Cascadians Millions

Line extension allowances are on their way out, and regulators can finish the job.
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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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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.

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Ricardo Pelai

Researcher, Climate and Energy

Ricardo’s research focuses on accelerating Cascadia’s transition from fossil fuels to a future powered by abundant clean energy.

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.

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