Series in Climate + Energy

• Transitioning From Puget Sound Oil Refineries

• Northwest Coal & Oil Exports

  The facts on coal exports, oil trains, and the real costs of these schemes for our region and climate.

• Oil Train Explosions and Derailments

  Sightline investigates fiery oil train derailments that are all-too-common and incredibly destructive.

• Cascadia Climate Action

  What Cascadia is doing to make polluters pay.

• Fracked Fuel & Petrochemical Projects in the Pacific Northwest

  Methanol, LNG, propane-by-rail, and xylene  schemes—cousins to coal and oil export projects—get a close review of their costs and risks to the Northwest’s water and air.

• The Risk of Northwest Oil Spills

  What an oil spill from the region's ballooning oil shipping industry would mean for Northwest waterways.

• The Northwest's Pipeline on Rails

  A comprehensive look at the nearly one dozen plans that have emerged since 2012 to ship crude oil by train to Northwest refineries and port terminals.

• Look Who's Taking Oil & Coal Money

  Outing purported "green" professionals for their contradictory work pushing Northwest coal and oil exports.

• Carbon Pricing: An Introduction

  Selections from our carbon pricing research to get you up to speed.

• Non-Cascadia Climate Action

  Following global progress to put a meaningful price on climate-warming carbon pollution.

• Green-Collar Jobs

  Investments in clean energy and green jobs are 3-in-1 solutions. They turn big challenges---energy, climate change, and the economy---into big opportunities for families and businesses in our communities. This blog series delves into what green-collar jobs are and seeks out programs in the Northwest working to create more.

• Big Oil's Accidental Tax Loophole

  Giving away millions to the state’s oil industry every year is hard to understand.

• Coal Export Trend Reports

  Analysis of the US Department of Energy's national and regional quarterly coal export data.

• Cap and Trade and the "Gaming" Question

  How well-designed carbon pricing systems defy would-be market manipulators.

• Putting a Price on Carbon

  How putting a price on carbon pollution could benefit communities across the Northwest.

• What Do Oil Train Explosions Cost?

  The financial risks of radically under-insured and severely dangerous oil train derailments.