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Oregon’s Untapped Gold Mine: The Homes that Don’t Yet Exist
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The Best Wildfire Solution We’re Not Using
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The Northwest Needs More Midsize Solar
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UPDATED: 50 Housing Bills and How They Fared in Olympia
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With Flexibility Over Parking, Oregon Homebuilders Get to Work
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It’s Time to Stop Subsidizing New Gas Pipes
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Seven Reasons Washington Needs Middle Housing
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Anchorage Assembly Unites to End Parking Mandates
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A tipping point: Economics of gas no longer make sense
A decade ago, the economics of heating a home with natural gas were strong compared to alternatives like electric heat pumps. Natural gas was markedly cheaper than electricity. Consumers, eager to capitalize on cheap fuel prices and a promise of cleaner combustion, installed gas appliances. Puget Sound Energy (PSE) and NW Natural, two of the Pacific Northwest’s biggest gas utilities, helped incentivize this growth, adding more than 230,000 new customers...Read more » -
Uncontainable Wildfires Are Inevitable. Community Destruction Is Not.