News items for August 14, 2024
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1. WA is demolishing a 60-year-old auto shop for salmon
In order to help salmon in Lyon Creek, the state will force the demolition and closure of Ballinger Automotive, after more than 60 years of operation, through eminent domain.
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2. PNW tribes battered by climate, but fight for funds to help
Coastal tribes in the Pacific Northwest experience some of the most severe effects of climate change, from rising seas to severe heat, but face an array of bureaucratic barriers to access government funds meant to help them adapt, a report released Monday found.
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3. Health professionals urge BC to stop investing in LNG
Physicians are sounding the alarm on B.C.’s liquefied fossil gas industry (LNG) saying the growth and expansion are worsening the province’s healthcare crisis, through an open letter signed by over 300 health professionals.
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4. State says NW Natural misled customers about OR climate plans
Oregon environmental regulators are concerned that the state’s largest natural gas utility is misinforming customers about a key climate change policy aimed to reduce greenhouse gases.
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5. Podcast: Can Portland solve its housing crisis?
On the latest Beat Check, reporters Shane Dixon Kavanaugh and Jonathan Bach discuss Portland’s housing crunch and how it could be solved.
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6. Opinion: Vancouver narrowly dodged a fire disaster. But nowhere is truly safe
Folks, we’ve had our wake-up calls. Vancouver is not in a magic bubble, and neither is Toronto, or Lethbridge, or Saskatoon, or Montreal. We’re all living in the same increasingly flammable world.
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7. US, Canada officials to study impact of coal mining in Kootenai River
The Kootenai River stems from British Columbia’s Elk Valley, about a two and a half hour drive northeast of Bonners Ferry.
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8. Opinion: Voting rights are dying by a thousand cuts
If you want to understand what’s happened to voting rights in the US over the past decade, just take a look at the recent ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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9. How the 2024 Paris Olympics handled the heat — and didn’t
The summer games can’t compete with rising temperatures. Here’s what that means for the future of the Olympics.
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10. Electrified highway that could change the future of trucking
This story is the second in a series by Reckon and Next City examining how Black and Brown communities across the US are working to hold corporations accountable for environmental injustices.
More News from August 14, 2024
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Invasive Species Cook-Off invites you to ‘eat the invaders’
Ever eaten a bullfrog for the greater good? There’s a word for it: invasivorism, “the practice of eating invasive species to help control their populations and restore balance to ecosystems.”
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Meet the crew scouring BC’s remote coast for wild trash
This is the third year tourism companies have employed coastal guides to spend weeks pulling marine debris off BC’s central coast, and despite its hardships, every single person aboard the Island Roamer wants to continue this work every year, as long as necessary.
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Alaska Gov. Dunleavy signs measure into law boosting community solar projects
Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed a measure into law on Tuesday intended to boost renewable energy.
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Podcast: How do we create world-class transit in Canada?
Is Canada’s transit, both public networks inside of cities and larger routes between them, truly as bad as it sometimes seems? And how could we do better?
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Lessons from a burning forest
Canada’s boreal forests are burning faster than they can regrow, but controlled fires may be one of the best ways to protect local communities.