climate action

Another billion dollars is expected from Washington state's cap and trade system. The funds will go to programs that reduce carbon pollution and help people adapt. Some advocates say there’s one thing the state should do more to support.

Two years after the deadliest weather-related disaster in Washington state history, public officials are taking stock. A new report from researchers at the University of Washington suggests there are both short- and long-term ways to prepare for extreme heat in the future.

Hundreds of corporate Amazon workers upset about the company’s environmental impact, recent layoffs and a return-to-office mandate protested at its Seattle headquarters.

Olympia, Wash., is what some call a “sea level rise city.” But elected officials there have only just begun to put a price on the cost of adaptation to climate change.

The mayors of Seattle and Freetown in Sierra Leone greeted each other like long-lost sisters on a train hurtling toward the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow. They have been bonded by years of Zoom calls and collaboration in the fight against climate change, even though they lead cities on different sides of the economic and climate divide.

The changing climate is a topic you’d think would be front and center in local elections – especially after the heat wave that killed hundreds of people in the Northwest this summer. A professor of politics at the University of Washington noted a lack of attention to the issue – until he and a colleague pushed for a debate in Seattle.

The extreme heat in June left many people scrambling to purchase portable air conditioners. But energy efficiency experts have two words for anyone who isn’t in a huge hurry: heat pump.

It’s been two years since the Tacoma City Council unanimously declared a climate emergency. Now, activists say council members have lost sight of that measure, so they’re getting creative.

"No one got everything they wanted, but we have a very good compromise on the table. … Please pass this ordinance as amended July 13."That was the mantra…

State lawmakers passed significant legislation this session that takes concrete steps to address climate pollution and the concerns of communities that it…