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A Managed Decline for Oil-Dependent Regions
To mark out a path to a just transition from fossil fuels for other oil-dependent regions like Alaska and North Dakota, it’s worth understanding a little about the Norwegian success story.Read more » -
Foresters Could Lead on Carbon Drawdown
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.Read more » -
Cascadia Re-Ups Eviction Moratoriums As Federal Ban Expires
Since the pandemic shut down the US in March, two factors have held off an explosion of US renters losing their homes: emergency federal unemployment insurance (UI) payments of $600 per week and eviction bans at multiple levels of government. But now the expiration of the federal eviction moratorium and the expiration of the UI payments today have renters facing an uncertain future and lawmakers scrambling to strike a deal. ...Read more » -
Public Opinion Is Moving Against Natural Gas and Fracking
Surveys show growing skepticism about the fossil fuel industry. Even in swing states where the oil and gas industry looms large, fracked gas isn’t a winner.Read more » -
Things I Hope Never Come Back After the Pandemic: #4. Cheap Beef
Will cheap beef go the way of handshakes and junk mail, among the COVID-19 losses to celebrate rather than mourn? The pandemic is knocking this climate-killing food down a notch.Read more » -
Will the Next US Federal Aid Package Rescue Renters?
Unemployment insurance and other emergency COVID-19 supports have worked to date to help keep renters in their homes. But as benefits and eviction bans expire over coming days and weeks, time is running out for Congress to act with adequate relief to stave off disaster for renters across the US—and for the US economy. Back in March when pandemic shutdowns triggered massive job loss throughout the US, the future looked...Read more » -
Things I Hope Never Come Back After the Pandemic #3: The Hegemony of Fossil Fuels
Sightline Institute executive director Alan Durning on the fossil fuel industry’s flagging hegemony and the impacts of #COVID-19: “Their economic power is crumbling. How soon will their political power follow?”Read more » -
Things I Hope Never Come Back After the Pandemic. #1: Handshakes
Are there things we’ve dropped during our fight against COVID-19 that we can say goodbye to for good? In this series, I’ll speculate on what (I hope) won’t survive after the pandemic.Read more » -
Alaska, North Dakota, and Alberta Oil in the Era of COVID
Alaska, North Dakota, and Alberta Oil in the Era of COVID-19. How the places that supply oil to Cascadia are reacting to the market collapse.Read more » -
How Anchorage Ran A Safe, Smooth Pandemic Election
Anchorage’s Vote By Mail system protected voters’ health during the COVID-19 pandemic and kept turnout high.Read more »