Hot Off the Wire — 3/17/24

Local / Regional News

3/19, 3pm Plants Get Sick – Monitoring Sea Grass Wasting Disease in a Changing Climate – This free NOAA webinar focuses on Northern California’s sea grass meadows. Register here.


Energy Futures poster saying Old Ways Won't Open New Doors

3/19, 4pmDisruptive Energy Futures – a WWU Institute for Energy Studies webinar. Zoom registration


3/19, 6:30-7:30pm – WA Divestment Panel – Our state’s public pension fund has over $8 BILLION invested in fossil fuel. Learn what you can do. Register HERE


3/20, 7pm – Birds and Climate Change – A free Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society presentation at the Dungeness River Nature Center.


3/21, 6:30pm – Blue Glacier: Then and Now – WA Sierra Club is screening this documentary about how one glacier in the Olympics has changed in our lifetime. On zoom — RSVP here.


3/23, 3-5pm – Commissioner of Public Lands candidate reception with Dave Upthegrove. Port Angeles Sons of Norway, 131 W 5th Ave.

Organized by the Elwha Legacy Forest Coalition

3/24, 1-4pm- Celebrate an Elwha River timber sale cancellation! Location: Olympic Adventure Route Colville trailhead, 27 Colville Rd, Port Angeles


Support City of Port Angeles Elwha watershed protection plan — The City has applied to transfer 3,089 acres of state forest lands in the Elwha watershed away from WA DNR and into protected status. Learn more  HERE


3/27, 4pm – Let’s debrief the WA state legislative session – Sightline Institute will share insights from the 2024 legislative session in a live conversation, including audience questions. Zoom link


3/27, 6:30pm – Candidate Forum for WA State Rep Seat 1 at Clallam County Democrats, 124 1st St, Port Angeles


Check out the latest Save Our Wild Salmon newsletter!


The Spring Western Environmental Law newsletter highlights efforts across the west to save endangered species, forests, rivers, wolverines and more.

National / International News

Soldiers patrol a polluting wartime fire

War is ecocide Environmental impacts of Gaza war from Inside Climate News. And learn more about how the climate crisis and militarism relate from Code Pink.


Tell the EPA to finalize strong clean car standards. Sign the petition.

Hold big oil accountable for lying about climate changeSign the petition.


Restore habitats- Tell your U.S. senators to support the Building Native Habitats at Federal Facilities Act. Sign the petition.


As winter melts awayBill McKibben says goodbye to winter

Inspiration

Hear about Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs’ groundbreaking Charter of Rights & Freedoms challenge taking on Canada’s climate inaction. 

Solutions

Troublemakers logo with raven and wrench

Become a troublemaker! A new community of people who are committed to taking action for life on Earth is forming in Washington state. Learn more.


electric tugboat

First all electric tugboat starts work in San Diego – The 82-foot, zero-emission eWolf is powered by a 6.2 MW main propulsion battery and two electric drives, and the even better news is that it’s more powerful than any diesel-powered tugboat the port has today. Read more from the San Diego Union.


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