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Protect the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge from industrialization – Protect the Peninsula’s Future
A corporation wants to industrialize the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge to grow oysters for its corporate gain. The corporation intends to keep the birds from their feeding grounds.
Climate plan process kick-started by OCA in 2016 is now coming to fruition – Olympic Climate Action
‘Spirit of the Waters’ totem pole journey begins – by Natasha Brennan for Indian Country Today
Virtual workshop: how to tell your climate story – Sierra Club
Date: Monday, May 23, 4 PM
Myth Busting Plastics Recycling – Dr. John Misasi with Western Washington University College of Science and Engineering
Date: Monday, May 16, 2022, 12 PM
This presentation will walk you through the principles of plastics recycling and then discuss some of the unique recycling problems that WWU undergraduate researchers are working to solve.
It’s Time For WA to Clean Up Dirty Cars, Trucks and Buses For Good – Sierra Club
Senator Patty Murray’s Updates on Key Issues – by Shawn Bills (Sen. Patty Murray’s State Director) with Sierra Club
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022; 6 PM
What are the latest plans for the Lower Snake River Dams? Does Congress have the will to act on the climate crisis – and how can we help facilitate this? Are there updates on preserving public lands and legacy forests? Which bills will help get fossil fuels out of transportation and buildings?
Cascade of Solutions – Paul Hawken and Regeneration team
A truly beautiful storyboard, like the yellow-brick road of planetary solutions, with a way to create your own personal checklist
Stop Line 3! – Rising Tide North America
Respect Wet’suwet’en rights, drop Coastal GasLink – Rising Tide North America
Stop insuring tar sands pipelines and protect the sacred Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! – Stop the Money Pipeline
Tell the EPA: Strengthen the “Good Neighbor” Rule! – Evergreen Action’s
Tell Banks to Exit Amazon Oil and Gas NOW! – Amazon Watch
Tell Congress to stop financing international fossil fuel projects! – Friends of the Earth
Tell Chase & Mitsubishi: Keep Forests Standing! – Rainforest Action Network
Target: Clean up your fossil-fueled ocean shipping – Stand.earth
Tell the EPA: Dirty Trucks Harm Our Health & Our Planet – League of Conservation Voters
Bans Off Our Bodies – Planned Parenthood
Date: Saturday, May 14, varied locations
Send a Letter to the Editor pressuring your local candidates to act on the newest IPCC report. – 350.org
Climate News
Covert military operations in Washington State Parks? – Not in Our Parks
In April, Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon reversed and vacated the decision by Washington State Parks and Recreation permitting warfare training in 28 coastal Washington State Parks.
The scientific consensus on Lower Snake River dam breaching is broad and deep – by Shawn Vestal for The Spokesman-Review
Biden admin unveils long-awaited environmental justice strategy – by Pamela King & Kelsey Brugger for E & E News
U.S. plastic recycling rate drops to close to 5% – by Valerie Volcovici for Thomson Reuters
Pipeline Company Targets Individual Tribal Members in Court Battle for Line 5 – by Mary Annette Pember for Truthout
Tracking Biden’s environmental actions – by Eilperin et al. for The Washington Post
7 factors driving the switch to electric vehicles – by Kate Yoder for Grist
As conflict and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay? – by Laurie Goering for Thomson Reuters Foundation
Twice Burned: How the U.S. military’s toxic burn pits are poisoning Americans – by Julia Kane for Grist
As fires scorch New Mexico, the West braces for another hellish summer – by Kate Yoder for Grist
Tech companies are spending big to suck carbon from the atmosphere. Should the government, too? – by Emily Pontecorvo for Grist
Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms to work – by Mosabber Hossain for Thomson Reuters Foundation
World could see 1.5C of warming in next five years – by Gloria Dickie for Reuters
Even one year at 1.5C of warming can have dire impacts, such as killing many coral reefs and shrinking Arctic sea ice cover.
Amazon tribes turn the tables on intruders with social media – by Fabiano Maisonnave for AP News
Rising authoritarianism and worsening climate change share a fossil-fueled secret – The Conversation
Iraq’s farmers pushed off land as drought and heat cripple crops – by Tessa Fox for Thomson Reuters Foundation
Indigenous climate migrants face unique challenges — with too few resources – by Joseph Lee for Grist
Migration and climate change – series by Thomson Reuters Foundation
To Equitably Confront Climate Change, Cities Need to Include Public Health Agencies – by Aydali Campa for Inside Climate News
Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026 – by Seth Borenstein for AP News
Multimedia
The return of California’s butterflies – British Broadcasting Corporation
Film: Earth Focus, Fighting for Air – by Thomson Reuters Foundation & KCET
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done – by Kelly Hayes for Truthout
Newsletters
Climate Forward, 5/6/2022 – The New York Times
Climate Forward, 5/10/2022 – The New York Times
Perspectives
A new era for old forests or business as usual at DNR? – Works in Progress
Olympic Climate Action 