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Environmentalists stunned by failures in CA

From Climate News - Sightline Daily. Published on Sep 01, 2010.

Environmental activists expected big gains in Sacramento, but a ban on plastic grocery bags, another on a chemical used in baby bottles and a bid to boost alternative energy fell short in the face of heavy industry opposition.

First OR solar program up and running

From Climate News - Sightline Daily. Published on Sep 01, 2010.

Within a few weeks, onion farmer Jeff Ramp will start receiving monthly checks from his utility - Portland General Electric Co. - which will pay him a premium for solar energy he produces and consumes. The checks will keep coming for 15 years and could exceed $600 a month, ultimately more than repaying his investment.

Rage against the machines

From Climate News - Sightline Daily. Published on Sep 02, 2010.

Picture the oil monsters: Giant earth gobbling machines slowly barging up the Columbia River, making their ponderous way past endangered salmon, through the craggy gorge to the Snake River and then bellying up to a dock at Lewiston where they hit the highways to the Alberta tar sands. Oregon will be the gateway to this fossil fuel hell.

Views: Car capacity is not sacred

From Climate News - Sightline Daily. Published on Sep 01, 2010.

As the Puget Sound region continues to grow, we will be faced with a choice: Continue to build more roads and thereby preclude progress on alternative transportation, or accept that there is a limit to the number of cars we can accommodate. That is not to say the transition will be totally painless. But wishing for a pony isn’t going to solve the massive future challenges we face.

Facebookers want site off coal in OR

From Climate News - Sightline Daily. Published on Sep 01, 2010.

Greenpeace said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world's largest social network to abandon plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data center in Oregon.