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    Climate change
    Indigenous activists Roxanne White and Rachel Heaton sing at Divest the Globe protest on October 23. Photos by Sara Bernard
    Activists Disrupt Over 100 Bank Branches Across Seattle...
    By Sara Bernard • October 23, 2017 6:00 pm

    “This movement is not separate from Standing Rock, it’s an extension of it.”

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    Why Do Self-Driving Cars Get Climate Cred?
    By Sara Bernard • October 6, 2017 1:30 am

    Local experts weigh in on why cars could (maybe) be (part of) the answer.

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    Left to right: Seattle City Councilmember Mike O’Brien, mayoral staffer Will Lemke, and Mayor Ed Murray ‘test-drive’ an electric car in September 2016. Screenshot via Seattle City Council
    As the World Burns, Mayoral Candidates Differ on...
    By Casey Jaywork • September 8, 2017 2:20 pm

    Durkan embraces electric cars, while Moon is more skeptical.

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    Protesters gather on the train tracks in Vancouver, Wash. Photo courtesy Shut Down Fossil Fuels
    Oil Blockades Are the Beginning of a Regional...
    By Sara Bernard • August 7, 2017 4:00 pm

    The same oil train was blocked in Vancouver and Tenino.

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    SCERS Board meeting on July 13, 2017. Photo by Sara Bernard
    Divest City Pensions From Fossil Fuels? Probably Not
    By Sara Bernard • July 13, 2017 4:00 pm

    The SCERS Board did not vote either way Thursday. But financial advisers say: Don’t do it.

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    Climate activist Ken Ward et al at Skagit County courthouse in June 2017. Photo courtesy Climate Direct Action
    Climate Activist Ken Ward Won’t Go to Prison
    By Sara Bernard • June 23, 2017 2:00 pm

    Threatened with 10 years in prison and $20,000 in fines, Ward was given 30 days community service.

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    Environmental groups rally against proposed cuts to EPA Puget Sound funding on March 22, 2017. Photo by Sara Bernard
    ‘Pruitt Blew It’: At the EPA, Resistance Is...
    By Sara Bernard • June 19, 2017 6:30 am

    Current and former staffers say morale is low at the watchdog agency. But that doesn’t mean they’re giving up.

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    Climate activists line the walls at a City Council meeting on June 12. Photo by Sara Bernard
    Seattle Commits to Paris Accord, Calls for End...
    By Sara Bernard • June 12, 2017 6:00 pm

    A City Council resolution calls for Puget Sound Energy to stop using coal by 2025.

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    Ken Ward and supporters at the Skagit County courthouse on June 5, 2017. Photo courtesy Climate Direct Action
    Split Decision: Valve-Turner and Climate Activist Ken Ward...
    By Sara Bernard • June 7, 2017 4:00 pm

    Ward faces prison time for shutting down a pipeline. He says it’s time to end “incremental thinking.”

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    Palouse Wind Farm, eastern Washington. Photo by Chris Weber, Flickr Creative Commons
    As Trump Drops Paris Climate Agreement, Washington Activists...
    By Sara Bernard • June 1, 2017 4:00 pm

    350 Seattle immediately urges Governor Inslee to lead a “Power Past Paris” bloc of climate-friendly states.

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    • Teen brings gun to school; security guard accused of sex crime | Podcast
    • Push to lower legal limit to 0.05 for driving drunk falls short
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    • First-of-its-kind mental health crisis care center announced North King County
    • House Democrats push Washington closer to assault weapons ban

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