Climate + Energy
Cascadia’s clean energy transition
Transitioning off coal, oil, and gas to a future of abundant clean energy.
Latest research + analysis
The 1,083-Page Environmental Assessment That Ignores Climate Change and Tribes
The Northwest needs a better way to evaluate power line projects.
The 1,083-Page Environmental Assessment That Ignores Climate Change and Tribes
Northwest Data Centers: A Climate Test and Potential Opportunity
Ending Subsidies for New Gas Hook-Ups Can Save Cascadians Millions
Lessons for Washington State Leaders as Another US Oil Refinery Closes
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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.
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 + Energy research in the news
Bill to protect residential electricity customers from subsidizing data center demand moves forward
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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.
Research and policy recommendations to prune the gas system, scale electrification, and protect ratepayers.
Myth-busting hydrogen and renewable natural gas
Research and policy recommendations to prune the gas system, scale electrification, and protect ratepayers.