Under the banner of “Dig, Baby, Dig,” the Trump administration is supercharging an already powerful mining industry. What will happen to vulnerable plants and animals?
Gov. Bob Ferguson has rejected everyone the state board recommended for commutation
At the same time, Adult Protective Services workers say they’re under growing pressure to close investigations quickly.
Thank goodness for non-profit journalism again. On the web page of The Tyee is an opinion piece by a Canadian environmentalist with some astounding news about how Canada severely undercounts its contribution to global warming.
The column by Sierra Club campaigner Jens Wieting finds that a huge chunk of the Great White North's greenhouse gas production is not counted and is acknowledged in what amounts to a footnote: the carbon dioxide coming out of Canadian forests because of logging and slash burning.
Wieting closely examines a report catalouging British Columbia's greenhouse gas emissions, although he says the same approach is used at the national level:
emissions from forest land remaining forest land
Normally forests are carbon sinks, places that suck up carbon dioxide. It turns out that emissions from forests are outpacing the uptake because the pine beetle infestation left the forests in such tatters.
Tyee, btw, is a localism for the king salmon. The newsite's motto: "A Feisty One!" And so it is.
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State lawmakers wary of government spending have turned down bills to fund emergency medical services
Shereef Elnahal, who has served as president since August, said the hospital needs to stabilize its finances before it can resume the project
The state announced the new assistance as federal Medicaid cuts are expected to reduce Oregon’s program by $11 billion over five years
Nurses say more babies are being squeezed into rooms in the 30-year-old unit
Under the banner of “Dig, Baby, Dig,” the Trump administration is supercharging an already powerful mining industry. What will happen to vulnerable plants and animals?
Gov. Bob Ferguson has rejected everyone the state board recommended for commutation
At the same time, Adult Protective Services workers say they’re under growing pressure to close investigations quickly.
After Isaac Berger overdosed, his mother gave hospital staff the pills she found in his room. She says it became the biggest regret of her life.
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