Jay Inslee

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A lone killer whale breaks the water in a Comox, B.C., harbour on Tuesday, July 31, 2018. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jen Osborne

Protected areas, fishing closures to help B.C.'s threatened southern resident orcas

The endangered whales roam waters off British Columbia and the U.S. northwest. Their dwindling population sits at 73, according to data from the American Marine Mammal Commission.

By Ashley Joannou | News, Politics | April 27th 2023

President Joe Biden speaks at POET Bioprocessing in Menlo, Iowa, on April 12, 2022. Biden plans to mark Earth Day in Seattle on Friday, but he's struggled to make progress on a sweeping environmental agenda. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

This Earth Day, Biden's climate agenda is stalled

One year ago, Joe Biden marked his first Earth Day as president by convening world leaders for a virtual summit on global warming that even Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping attended. Biden used the moment to nearly double the United States’ goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, vaulting the country to the front lines in the fight against climate change.

By Matthew Daly & Chris Megerian | News, US News, Politics | April 21st 2022

President Joe Biden holds up a map of wildfires in Washington state as he speaks with governors in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, on, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Climate change has worsened the spread and ferocity of wildfires, Biden says

President Joe Biden is sounding the alarm about the need for more resources to fight a series of wildfires in western states, as climate change has worsened the spread and ferocity of the blazes.

Wildfires

By Josh Boak | News, Politics | July 31st 2021

Canada public pension managers questioned on U.S. fossil fuel investments

“Canadian pension funds can’t credibly claim to understand the financial risks of the climate crisis at the same time that they're investing in the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure,” says Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health.

By Carl Meyer | News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider | November 16th 2020

Proposed U.S. navy weapons testing in Salish Sea alarms residents: Elizabeth May

The Green party’s parliamentary leader and MP for Saanich—Gulf Islands has raised the issue twice in the House of Commons and written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging him to protest the rules surrounding new U.S. navy tests, including torpedoes, sonar technology and underwater drones.

By Carl Meyer | News, US News, Politics, Ottawa Insider | November 10th 2020

Former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden speaking with supporters at a town hall hosted by the Iowa Asian and Latino Coalition at Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 33 in Des Moines, Iowa. Photo:Flickr/Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Biden's 2 trillion dollar plan

Proposal outlines $2tn for clean energy infrastructure and climate solutions, to be spent as quickly as possible in next four years.

Race Against Climate Change

By Emily Holden | News, US News | July 17th 2020

Naomi Klein: ‘We are literally and politically flammable’

The intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal movement laid out what, exactly, such a plan must entail to be successful.

Race Against Climate Change

By Alexander C. Kaufman | News, Politics | January 7th 2020

How climate politics went mainstream in 2019

The science has never been bleaker, but progress is afoot.

Race Against Climate Change

By Zoya Teirstein | News | December 30th 2019

Jay Inslee tops new ranking of 2020 candidates’ climate proposals

Eight candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, don't even have climate plans to rank on the list.

By Alexander C. Kaufman | News | July 4th 2019

Matt Rodriquez, Janine Benner, Jay Inslee, John Horgan, Vancouver, Trans Mountain

Gov. Jay Inslee says Washington state is 'allied' with B.C. against Trans Mountain pipeline

The project poses a threat to waters off the West Coast, which Washington residents view as a treasure, and the state is looking at marine safety laws that would help mitigate the impact of a tanker spill, Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday at a meeting with B.C. Premier John Horgan and officials from Oregon and California.

Trans Mountain

By Gemma Karstens−Smith & Canada's National Observer | News, Energy, Politics | March 16th 2018

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