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		<title>The Case for Retiring Northwest Oil Refineries</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/09/15/the-case-for-retiring-northwest-oil-refineries/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[It is impossible to meet our climate targets without refinery retirement. | ]]></description>
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		<title>Cascadia’s Carbon Budget</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/09/10/cascadias-carbon-budget/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Current legislative emissions goals are not consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees. | ]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State Leads the Nation on Climate Action</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/06/07/washington-state-leads-the-nation-on-climate-action/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Decades of organizing and political leadership finally paid off  | Eight years into Jay Inslee’s tenure, he finally signed a bill capping statewide climate pollution. The Climate Commitment Act (CCA), or SB-5126, passed the Senate by a 27-22 vote with one day left in the legislative session. The bill implements the most aggressive statewide cap and invest system in the nation, and will be a critical tool to meet Washington’s recently updated emissions reduction targets. Many variations of pollution caps...]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Action in the Courts</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2021/06/03/climate-action-in-the-courts/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Two lawsuits seek to hold corporations responsible for the extraction and promotion of fossil fuels. | Along with warmer weather and increasingly relaxed COVID restrictions, spring has brought us news about two of the revolutionary climate lawsuits that Sightline has been following. In Juliana v. United States, the judge overseeing the “youth plaintiffs” litigation has ordered the parties to begin settlement talks, ignoring for now the federal government’s request to dismiss the case outright. And in Baltimore v. BP, the city’s lawsuit against more than two...]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Crops: Let&#8217;s Pay Farmers to Protect Our Water</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2020/09/29/cover-crops-lets-pay-farmers-to-protect-our-water/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Helping farmers pay for cover crops would protect public health and reduce farm risks. | Across the United States, nearly six million people drink from water systems with elevated nitrate levels, a number which does not include households on private well water, for which there is no consistent testing standard. Latino residents living in rural areas disproportionately bear the exposure to this toxic discharge. Cover crops interrupt the pollution pathway, transforming the typically slick sheets of bare winter fields into obstacle courses that slow the water’s...]]></description>
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		<title>Foresters Could Lead on Carbon Drawdown</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2020/08/05/foresters-could-lead-on-carbon-drawdown/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2020 12:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Simple changes in management could double carbon stores in Pacific Northwest forests. | The temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest are the Olympic athletes of the carbon world. They can store more carbon, acre for acre, than nearly any ecosystem on earth. A single acre of old growth in the Oregon or Washington Cascades holds the equivalent of a year’s worth of emissions from 250 cars.]]></description>
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		<title>Leaks In The City: Methane&#8217;s Invisible Menace</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2020/04/23/leaks-in-the-city-methanes-invisible-menace/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The surprising climate danger of “nonhazardous” natural gas leaks. | In the US, gas utilities are legally required to stop leaks that endanger people (for instance, when gas leaks in a building are in concentrations high enough to ignite and explode), yet they face much less stringent regulation when it comes to addressing gas leaks that don’t pose an immediate safety hazard, such as a small leak from an outdoor meter. But it’s a problem worth addressing because “nonhazardous” gas...]]></description>
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		<title>Listen In: Policymaking in a Pandemic</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2020/04/14/listen-in-policymaking-in-a-pandemic/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sightline featured on KBOO’s “Locus Focus” for a look at COVID-19, climate change, voting by mail, and more. | This week, I joined KBOO Community Radio‘s Barbara Bernstein for a wide-ranging conversation about how the coronavirus pandemic shapes our policymaking and may change our calculations about climate change. We talked about the profound challenges of the crisis, as well as the way it presents new opportunities for important policies like voting by mail and universal basic income. We discussed what the collapse of oil prices means for the struggling fossil...]]></description>
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		<title>End Apartment Bans to Save the Planet, UN Climate Report Says</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2019/11/27/end-apartment-bans-to-save-the-planet-un-climate-report-says/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[ With six annotated takeaways for local housing policy. | Local bans on attached homes in cities are driving up energy use and helping cook the climate, the United Nations Environment Program wrote in a report published Tuesday. &#8220;In some locations, spatial planning prevents the construction of multifamily residences and locks in suburban forms at high social and environmental costs,&#8221; the report&#8217;s authors wrote. They suggest a 20 percent cut to average floor area per person by 2050. UN institutions...]]></description>
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		<title>How Does Climate Change Affect Northwest Wildfires?</title>
		<link><![CDATA[https://www.sightline.org/2019/08/14/climate-change-affect-wildfires-season-northwest/]]></link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 12:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Fire-fighting practices, precipitation, and other factors complicate our understanding of what affects size and intensity. | Wildfires have seemed inescapable in the Northwest the past few summers after record-setting conflagrations erupted in the region’s prized forests. These blazes have proved so dangerous and persistent that some rural residents have become accustomed to waiting for evacuation warnings while city dwellers hundreds of miles away can watch ash descend onto public parks and beaches. Wildfire smoke was so thick in some Cascadian locales that the late-summer air quality...]]></description>
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