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Two Possible Futures for Northwest Oil Refining
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The History of Northwest Refineries
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The Case for Retiring Northwest Oil Refineries
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Cascadia’s Carbon Budget
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The Contradiction at the Heart of Housing Policy
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Zombie Scooters to Invade Boise
Bosie, Idaho pilot: New autonomous electric vehicle technology aims to reduce sidewalk clutter and increase e-scooter use for short trips.Read more » -
Do We Already Have the Money for a Guaranteed Income?
In a moment when his country seemed awash in both progress and mounting peril, Martin Luther King Jr. embraced one of the world’s oldest policy ideas. It was January 1967. Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement were navigating new political schisms and a backlash from some working-class white voters in the 1966 midterm elections. King, his wife, Coretta Scott King, and two employees flew to a small town on the...Read more » -
Muscling Political Advantage to Push Kalama Petrochemical Project?
A review of actions, campaign spending, and past and current government officials’ employment and engagement, reveals influence peddling and political spending to curry favor to advance Kalama, Washington, petrochemical export project.Read more » -
A Green Voter’s Guide to Cascadia’s 2020 Election Results
Perhaps you’ve heard that the United States held an election recently. As the dust clears and local, state, and federal ballots are counted, Sightline’s team of researchers is using this page to tell you how the results matter to sustainability issues here in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle bus service was on the ballot; it won. Housing reform in Portland got a mixed result at city council. Montana took a rightward...Read more » -
Cover Crops: Let’s Pay Farmers to Protect Our Water
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...Read more »