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December 2021
Washington State Refineries and Climate Change
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 … Continue reading
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August 2021
The Heatwave Melted All the Nooksack’s Extra 2021 Snowpack
Snowmelt triggered by the heat wave wiped out any benefit that higher-than-average snowpack levels might have held for river flows in the summer dry season. If you were anywhere in the high country of the North Cascades during the heat … Continue reading
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July 2021
County Climate Impact Advisory Committee Is Releasing Action Plan for Public Comment
The Climate Impact Advisory Committee (CIAC) announced during their June 3 meeting that they tentatively plan to release their draft of the county’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) to the public on June 29. The public comment period is currently scheduled … Continue reading
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June 2021
Sea Level Rise and Its Impact on Whatcom County
A coastal modeling program by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has recently been made available to the Puget Sound. The system, named CoSMoS (Coastal Storm Modeling System), has the ability to assess flood risk to certain areas, and has … Continue reading
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January 2021
How Cascadian Corporations Stack Up on Climate
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 … Continue reading
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December 2020
How Cascadian Corporations Stack Up on Climate
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 … Continue reading
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July 2020
Bellingham Moves Forward With Phase 1 of Climate Policy Approval Process
On June 8, Bellingham’s Climate and Energy Manager, Seth Vidaña, presented 10 actions from the Climate Action Plan to research further and consider adopting as policy. This step was a part of “Phase 1” of the larger Climate Action Plan … Continue reading
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June 2020
Implementation Process for Bellingham’s Climate Action Plan
In 2018, the Bellingham City Council adopted a resolution to create a Climate Action Plan Task Force that would develop a “Climate Protection Action Plan 2018 Update” (Climate Action Plan), and recommend policies to meet the city’s greenhouse gas reduction … Continue reading
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June 2020
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 … Continue reading
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March 2020
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 … Continue reading
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