Exciting news from Salem! Oregon regulators just finalized nation-leading protections that ensure data centers pay for their ...

Campaign redux! Updating our energy codes (again) is crucial for our climate, because the energy we use to heat and cool our ...

Building the grid we need to power our future starts with smart planning. Transmission planning is the process of identifying ...

Wawa Gatheru encourages us to take inspiration from the past to move forward as climate activists at a time when this work is ...

Today a King County Superior Court judge ruled that Initiative 2066 violates the Washington state constitution. Lawyers for a plaintiff group of public interest advocates and local governments argued ...

Successfully tackling our climate challenge will require a mix of policies that includes investment, emission standards, and more. One important question is: how do we account for the harms of carbon ...

In the waning days of this year’s legislative session in Olympia, I was able to stand in the wings of the Senate in the Capitol building as lawmakers debated and passed the 100% Clean School Buses ...

Something is up, and unfortunately, it may be a higher utility bill for Oregon gas customers. In a time when communities are already bracing for Congressional Republicans’ new energy tax hike, NW ...

We all have growing concerns about the rising energy demand from data centers. In fact, data centers are the largest source of expected new electricity demand in the Pacific Northwest, with the ...

Like you, all of us at Climate Solutions are still processing the election results and what they portend for the next few years, as well as the many emotions that we are feeling. It is deeply ...

After a tough year for climate progress and unprecedented federal retreat from climate, clean energy, and environmental justice protections, state leadership has never mattered more. Oregonians are ...

What a historic year 2023 has been for climate action in Washington! The transformational Climate Commitment Act went into effect in January, creating the nation's second economy-wide program to cap ...