Washington ferries are going hybrid-electric, but disposal of old ones poses environmental, legal risks
An abandoned ferry in the Puget Sound represents a shared struggle across the West Coast: to sell an old ship or destroy it
Environment
Cleaner buildings? We need to spend billions
Retrofitting programs across Cascadia make a difference, but results are probably too small and too slow.
How Vancouver aimed high yet fell short
Driven to become the world’s ‘greenest city,’ it discovered how bumpy the road could get.
An electric future? Natural gas proponents won’t go without a fight
Even a green city like Bellingham has learned it’s not easy to cap demand for fossil fuel.
Biochar ambassadors hope to save the Methow
Couple launches a nonprofit project to improve forest health, limit fires and capture carbon.
Can the West learn to share renewable power?
Insights: Proponents of a heftier, coordinated grid assess its importance — and barriers to their visions.
Fish pay the price for failed water management
Time ran out on efforts to cooperate in the Klamath Basin — and it’s now running out for two species of suckers.
A stronger electricity grid is crucial to cutting carbon. Does that make it green?
Three viewpoints: A proposal to lay cables beneath the Columbia River is met with skepticism from an Indigenous activist and the river’s advocates.
10 jobs that will help shape a zero-emissions future
An economy based on healing the climate could spawn new livelihoods across Cascadia.
Behold Washington’s ‘new beginning’ in its fight against climate change
As the dust settles in Olympia, the state finally has embraced cap and trade, electric cars and environmental justice.