The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1930, “and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

Climate Surge is a new, lean, high-impact project built to accelerate the deployment of climate policies and market solutions in Washington State. We work across sectors — government, corporate, heavy ...

Heat Island sounds like the title of a bad reality TV series, but it’s the lived reality for too many city dwellers during heat waves. The reality was particularly brutal for the 69 Multnomah County ...

Oregon’s energy needs are rapidly evolving. Electricity demand is surging primarily due to the rapid expansion of energy-intensive data centers, alongside the broader electrification of homes, ...

One year after communities discovered that NW Natural had been quietly blending hydrogen into their gas system, baseline transparency and oversight standards are now law! On June 2nd, organizations ...

Meaningful climate progress can take a lot of work—but it’s so very important. Case in point: setting up Oregon’s Climate Protection Program took years of advocacy, planning, and community ...

Earlier this week, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting American Energy From State Overreach.” It should have been called the "Make American Energy Dirtier and More Expensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...