First Oregon whale entanglement of the year sounds the alarm
At the end of January, a humpback whale was found on the central coast wrapped in numerous sets of commercial...
Environmental Policies
PSE electric, gas rate hikes approved
Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond....
Stop Alberta Coal Mines: A Personal Connection to a Threatened Place
My youngest son, Silas, grew up fishing the blue-ribbon trout streams of Alberta’s Eastern Slopes. The first time he set...
Inside WA firefighters’ battle for homes in an L.A. canyon
Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond....
WA’s new lands chief hits pause on controversial timber sales
Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond....
Seattle claims to ‘protect’ hundreds of trees that were never threatened
Kathy and Dan Robinson’s excitement about their upcoming kitchen renovation turned to puzzlement when Seattle building officials required them to...
Uranium fever collides with industry’s dark past in Navajo country
A few miles south of the Grand Canyon, thousands of tons of uranium ore, reddish-gray, blue and radioactive, are piled...
Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement — again
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing the United States to again withdraw from the...
Here’s what the Paris climate agreement does and doesn’t do
WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2015 Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such...
3 of the most important Trump executive orders on climate
On the heels of the hottest year in recorded history, one that brought the planet to a dangerous temperature threshold,...
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