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Cascadia Pacific Northwest mapping shows climate inequities

Residents of 152 cities and towns in the Pacific Northwest are particularly vulnerable to climate-fueled wildfires. Residents of 60 other communities are most susceptible to floods. And people living in 75 towns are most liable to suffer maybe even die because of heat waves.
That s according to a new analysis released Wednesday by news agency InvestigateWest and planning firm Headwaters Economics. It drills down to towns where, for example, sparse tree canopies and older residences make communities more susceptible to heat waves than younger populations in leafier places.
The analysis looks at likely climate disasters and examines factors such as the number of people with disabilities, how many live in poverty, the proportion that rents their home and how many of the vulnerable are Black, Indigenous or people of color. ....

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InvestigateWest: Cascadia mapping shows climate inequities

Residents of 152 cities and towns in the Pacific Northwest are particularly vulnerable to. ....

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InvestigateWest: Washington state plan would slash emissions

InvestigateWest: Washington state plan would slash emissions
Peter Fairley
InvestigateWest
After more than a decade of the supposedly eco-friendly Pacific Northwest and British Columbia falling short on pledges to fight climate change, a new blueprint emerged last month for how to eliminate all but a sliver of fossil-fuel emissions.
The 428-page plan by Washington state outlines how to make a wholesale shift to renewable energy and meet some of the most ambitious climate-protection goals on the planet. It calls for building a regional network of solar and wind energy stations and transmission lines allowing sharing of power across the western U.S. and Canada. ....

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InvestigateWest: Washington state plan would slash emissions

InvestigateWest: Washington state plan would slash emissions
By PETER FAIRLEYJanuary 25, 2021 GMT
After more than a decade of the supposedly eco-friendly Pacific Northwest and British Columbia falling short on pledges to fight climate change, a new blueprint emerged this month for how to eliminate all but a sliver of fossil-fuel emissions.
The 428-page plan by Washington state outlines how to make a wholesale shift to renewable energy and meet some of the most ambitious climate-protection goals on the planet. It calls for building a regional network of solar and wind energy stations and transmission lines allowing sharing of power across the western U.S. and Canada. ....

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InvestigateWest: Cascadia not on track to cut emissions

InvestigateWest: Cascadia not on track to cut emissions
Peter Fairley, InvestigateWest
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A U.S. Flag stands in the middle of the remains of a devastated neighborhood in Talent, Oregon on Sept. 11, 2020 after the Almeda Fire swept through the area in Southern Oregon.
To the rest of the world, the United States Pacific Northwest and Canada s British Columbia represent one of the supposedly most eco-friendly regions in North America, if not the globe.
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And yet on climate change, the biggest environmental challenge of this generation, the governments of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia not only over-promised what they would do to stem the tide. They actually underperformed compared to all the other states and provinces in the two countries, according to a new analysis by InvestigateWest. ....

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