News items for October 25, 2024
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1. Montana’s plurality problem
Political gamesmanship and the spoiler effect prevent majority winners in some of the Treasure State’s most impactful elections.
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2. The contradiction of a split vote on WA’s anti-climate ballot initiatives
Initiatives 2066 and 2117 are closely linked, but polls and endorsements diverge.
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3. Candidates are navigating a first-of-its-kind election season in Portland
Candidates running for office in Portland this fall are navigating uncharted waters. It’s the city’s first election following new voter-approved changes to the city’s governance model and voting system, including the introduction of ranked choice voting.
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4. Every country is negotiating a plan to save nature. Except the US
Why won’t the US join the most important treaty to protect the natural world?
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5. Scientists are mapping landslide risk in AK. Some homeowners don’t want to know
Deadly landslides are increasing around the world. But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial.
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6. OR receives nearly $1M to support farmworker affordable housing
“Making sure families have access to safe and affordable housing in the communities where they work is essential.”
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7. The ‘Greenest Governor’ fights to save WA’s landmark climate law
Environmentalists and one of the world’s biggest oil companies support Washington State’s cap on carbon. But voters are deciding whether to repeal the law amid concerns about energy costs.
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8. Biden to apologize for 150-year Indian boarding school policy
For more than a century, from the early 1800s to the 1960s, Indigenous children were taken from their tribes (sometimes forcibly from their homes) to attend government assimilation boarding schools. On Friday afternoon, President Joe Biden will issue a formal apology from the U.S. government to impacted communities.
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9. Wildfires in the West aren’t just getting bigger. They’re faster, too
In recent decades, fast-growing blazes were responsible for an outsize share of fire-related devastation, scientists found using satellite data.
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10. The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change
Wetlands absorb carbon from the atmosphere. The Coeur d’Alene’s restoration would do more than just that.
More News from October 25, 2024
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US election could shift direction of plastic pollution policy
The 2024 U.S. presidential election may impact how the country tackles the global plastic pollution crisis, though a divided Congress could limit progress.
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BC program is growing food security for First Nations—but its future is ‘fragile’
The Tea Creek program in northern B.C. has trained hundreds of Indigenous people, and fed thousands more. But to thrive, they need more reliable funding.