Washington State Refineries and Climate Change

by Zane Gustafson and Eric de Place In 2020, the Washington state legislature legally committed to reducing emissions by 95 percent by 2050. Decarbonization makes refinery transitions inevitable, even as the precise timeline cannot be known due to shifting market and political forces. With this shift from fossil fuels, there [Read More...]

By |2022-03-08T07:23:29-08:00December 31, 2021|Climate|

How Cascadian Corporations Stack Up on Climate

by Laura Feinstein Rating the Climate Claims and Actions of Albertsons Amazon, Boeing, Costco, Intel, Microsoft, Nike, Nordstrom, PACCAR and Starbucks This article was first published at sightline.org. https://www.sightline.org/2020/09/21/how-cascadian-corporations-stack-up-on-climate/ Last month in Part I, the article gave an overview of the environmental aspirations (relating to climate) of Northwest-based Fortune 500 [Read More...]

By |2022-03-10T08:46:04-08:00January 25, 2021|Climate|

How Cascadian Corporations Stack Up on Climate

by Laura Feinstein and Eric de Place Rating the Climate Claims and Actions of Alaska Airlines, Albertsons, Amazon and Boeing This article was first published at sightline.org. https://www.sightline.org/2020/09/21/how-cascadian-corporations-stack-up-on-climate/ When Amazon announced that its new professional hockey arena in Seattle would be called “Climate Pledge Arena,” it was clear that 2020 [Read More...]

By |2022-03-10T09:06:15-08:00December 17, 2020|Climate|

A History of City Climate Protection

The city of Bellingham has been involved in climate protection for 15 years. At the March 14, 2005, meeting, the City Council endorsed the Cities for Climate Protection program to reduce global warming and air pollution emissions. The council voted at the July 24, 2006, meeting to purchase the city’s [Read More...]

By |2020-06-25T09:26:07-07:00June 25, 2020|Climate|

Bellingham Hires Climate and Energy Manager

The City of Bellingham has hired Seth Vidaña as its first-ever Climate and Energy Manager. He began in that position on Feb. 18, 2020. Vidaña has worked to create a more sustainable community and reduce energy consumption at Western Washington University since 2008, most recently as Director of the Office [Read More...]

By |2020-03-10T12:57:38-07:00March 10, 2020|Climate|
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