Leaders from Seattle Indian Health Board, Chief Seattle Club, and United Indians of All Tribes Foundation are calling for the acts of violence at Seattle City Councilwoman Debora Juarez’s home to end. Juarez, the first Indigenous woman ever elected to the Seattle City Council, has challenged a proposal to defund the Seattle Police Department by…
The King County Council Friday approved changes to its land use and development regulations that make it more difficult to expand or develop major fossil fuel infrastructure in the county. The county in 2019 passed a moratorium on developing such infrastructure. The new measures make it more difficult to construct pipelines or storage facilities for…
City of Vancouver, WA and King County joined the ranks with Whatcom County and the City of Portland to continue moratoriums on fossil fuel projects. County Council voted in favor of extending Cherry Point moratorium Vancouver City Council votes to continue temporary ban on bulk fossil fuel facilities King County Council restricts coal mines, fossil…
YES Omar and Sanders!!! Trying again to get something through Congress. End Polluter Welfare Act (Text of the bill at: https://omar.house.gov/sites/omar.house.gov/files/Bill%20Text%20-%20EPWA.pdf) “It is outrageous that the federal government has exploited a pandemic to throw even more public money at the industry that created and profited from the climate crisis,” said Jiang. “A bill to end…
CoViD-19 is a confluence of crises that further exacerbates inequities and exposes societal and economic vulnerabilities. Our latest RailBite, Solutionary Rail in a Time of Pandemic explores how this moment of crisis is also an opportunity to address those vulnerabilities, as well as one of the underlying causes of this and future pandemics, i.e. climate change, by undertaking…
