February 19, 2020
Opinion: Washington should pass clean-fuel standard like Oregon, California
Source: Joe Fitzgibbon, Seattle Times, Feb 11 2020 The last six years have been the hottest ever recorded. It’s only getting hotter. We’ve heard the roar of climate change from afar, but now it’s in our backyards. Each summer, wildfires rip across the Pacific Northwest with smoke thick enough that for several days in 2018, […]

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February 13, 2020
Podcast: 99% Invisible – Missing the Bus
Source: Emmett FitzGerald, 99% Invisible, Radiotopia, Feb 4, 2020 If you heard that there was a piece of technology that could do away with traffic jams, make cities more equitable, and help us solve climate change, you might think about driverless cars, or hyperloops or any of the other new transportation technologies that get lots […]

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January 24, 2020
Commentary: The State Of Nukes In Iran And North Korea: Insights From Former Director Of Nuclear Nonproliferation Sharon Squassoni
Source: James Conca, Forbes, Jan 20, 2020 I had the good fortune to talk with Professor Sharon Squassoni in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Her research at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy includes reducing risks from nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, particularly those related to nuclear material and fuel […]

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January 24, 2020
Commentary: When Will Companies Finally Step Up to Fight Climate Change?
Source: Kara Swisher, New York Times, Jan 23, 2020 Is a “decarbonized” future possible? That’s what Microsoft promised it would aim for when it pledged this week to go carbon negative by 2030. It added that it would attempt by 2050 to “remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption […]

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January 16, 2020
Commentary: Democrats’ Green New Deal Becomes The CLEAN Future Act
Source: James Conca, Forbes, Jan 15, 2020 The House Committee on Energy and Commerce, chaired by Frank Pallone, Jr (D-NJ), released an ambitious new climate plan to ensure the United States achieves net-zero greenhouse gas pollution by 2050. Supported by Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), […]

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January 10, 2020
Commentary: A Novel Method for Clean Food Production, While Simultaneously Bending Down the Curve of Global Warming
Source: John Novitsky, CEO, AquaPrawnics, jnovitsky@sbcglobal.net  and Lisa M. Farmen, Principal Engineer/Managing Member, Aquastry LLClisa@aquastry.com, (503) 544-2330. Jan 10 2020 The purpose of this article is to encourage the members of the NW Chapter of the Clean Tech Alliance to visit our website, then to become investors, employees, scientific or legislative partners. Shrimp are the […]

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January 8, 2020
Commentary: A Low Carbon World Requires Corporate Leadership
Source: Elizabeth Sturcken, Environmental Defense Fund, Forbes, Dec 19 2020 In the wake of the failure of the UN Climate Conference in Madrid, it is even more urgent and critical that global business lead the way – showing a path forward for prosperity and a thriving planet. While it is critical for governments around the […]

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January 8, 2020
Commentary: The Iran Nuclear Deal And The Killing Of Soleimani
Source: James Conca, Forbes, Jan 8, 2020 The Iran Nuclear Deal was one of the most effective, scientifically-complicated (and correct) foreign-policy initiatives in history. When the Deal was scuttled, President Rouhani warned that Iran would restart its nuclear program if America’s actions really hurt the country or if the rest of the world did not support the […]

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