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HB 1091, Clean Fuel Standard, passes Legislature
Bywebmaster January 5, 2021May 18, 2021

HB 1091 is the Clean Fuels Bill, reintroduced in the 2021-22 session after failing in 2020. It requires reductions in carbon emissions from transportation fuels. It is one of the legislative priorities identified at the Justice Summit. A public hearing was held on January 14 in the House Committee on Environment and Energy; see below…

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Salmon spawn in the upper Columbia after an 80-year hiatus
Bywebmaster January 3, 2021January 4, 2021

Bringing salmon back to the Upper Columbia has been a goal since the habitat was blocked by the Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams more than eight decades ago. Tribal members held the Ceremony of Tears 80 years ago when the final run of salmon returned. “Our ancestors carried a prayer that our salmon would one day return…

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Black clergy call for unity in fight for Seattle police accountability
Bywebmaster January 3, 2021

“There needs to be some defunding, but if it means officers will not be able to get into these underserved communities to develop a relationship with them, then I think we’re going to find out we’re going to have another set of issues coming up in the near future,” Witherspoon said. “When you don’t understand…

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A NEW BILL AIMS TO END POLICE RAIDS LIKE THE ONE THAT KILLED BREONNA TAYLOR
Bywebmaster December 30, 2020

THE POLICE KILLING of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot in Kentucky in March when plainclothes officers barged into her apartment in the middle of the night, has set off a series of state and local efforts to ban “no-knock” raids — the police practice of breaking into someone’s home unannounced to execute a search…

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MUSCLING POLITICAL ADVANTAGE TO PUSH KALAMA PETROCHEMICAL PROJECT?
Bywebmaster December 30, 2020

Strange as it may seem in late 2020, officials in Washington are still weighing plans to permit an enormous fossil fuel project, a Kalama petrochemical refining and export facility. The project is designed and backed by by a company called NW Innovation Works (NWIW) that is, through a complicated arrangement, actually an arm of the…

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