Since the dam removal on the Klamath River in California and Oregon two years ago, fall-run chinook salmon have returned in full force—but remaining dams, drought and other conditions still pose challenges for the species’ recovery.

20,000 Salmon Return to the Klamath—but Challenging Conditions for Recovery Remain - Inside Climate News

In the two years since dam removal on the Klamath River in California and Oregon, fall-run chinook salmon have come back in full force, but water allotments, remaining dams and drought conditions stil...

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. #openaccess science paper: Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence | npj Climate Action Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s44... #ClimateAction

Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence - npj Climate Action

Individual pro-environmental behaviours are often promoted as a pathway to broader climate engagement, yet critics argue they may divert attention from more impactful systemic solutions. Using four annual waves of longitudinal survey data from Austra

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After vandalism damaged Franklin High School's mural honoring the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party, students, alumni, artists, and community members came together to restore it — and create something new below it. See the transformation in photos: soseaem.org/4gXLg1l #Seattle

GOATS to the rescue! 🐐👏🏽🧯 www.nwpb.org/local/2026-0...

Unpacked: Using goats as a fire mitigation tool

How are goats being used as a fire mitigation tool in the Northwest?

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Natural gas isn't clean, it's a huge industry fraud. So what do we say about a new gas-fired power plant in Washington? “It’s shocking to see Ecology poised to speed this high-cost, polluting gas plant through the permitting process when so many unanswered questions remain…" 🧵1/2

I lived on the 8 route for more than a decade and this would have made my life *so much better* seeing this video for the first time brought me to tears. One of my friends took the 8 from SIFF to Broadway yesterday during rush hour and it took them *18 minutes* this is transformational.

Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 7d ago

Holy shit we’re flying like a bat out of hell. #Acceler8

“[Regulations] like that are designed not with science in mind, not with public health in mind, but with giving the utilities and the coal industry indirectly a break at the cost of the people who live closest to the facilities.” #CoalAsh #Kentucky

The webinar recordings from the first of our first Energy Justice webinar series, "Shifting Power on Data Centers", hosted in partnership with the @nwenergy.bsky.social NW Energy Coalition are here! Watch the English webinar recording here: youtu.be/JrKWs05Yitk?...

"We should pay more attention. We're just mistreating Mother Nature—that's like being ugly to your mama." Thank you, Dolly, for a lifetime of wisdom and joy.

What Dolly Parton wants us to know about the Smoky Mountains

From her Tennessee mountain home, the nature-loving singer says mistreating Earth is like ‘being ugly to your mama.’

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We’re not in the habit of recognizing celebrity deaths here at 925. That said, Dolly Parton is a national treasure and some folks here joke that Dolly is our Locals patron saint. After all her song “9 to 5” is our anthem. Today we remember all the love and kindness Dolly brought the world.

growing up in the south, it meant so much to me that dolly subverted stereotypes and reclaimed the power in being a whip-smart, talented, big-hearted, unapologetically loud and funny southern woman (and the bigger the hair, the closer to god, obvi)

Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · 6d ago

I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially

One big lie behind the data centre gas build out: "It's just a transition fuel leading to a grid connection" Okay - but what happens once connected? You have a LOT of new fossil fuel infra that needs to burn stuff for decades to make $$ www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/ser...

My city council (Federal Way, WA) is taking public comment on September 1st regarding a permanent AI data center moratorium. I'll be taking my sign, with my terrible but very human art. #NoAI #NoDataCenters #FederalWayWA

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Since Feb 2025 billions made available through EJ & CJ Block Grant Program have languished. AP estimates that EPA programs and rules cut were projected to prevent roughly 30,000 deaths per year, particularly in Black & disadvantaged communities. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com

Trump ordered to release billions in resilience grants for disadvantaged communities

A court ruling could revive critical local projects—though the administration may appeal.

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This is what data center developers are saying all across Michigan It's condescending and it's going over like a lead balloon.  Michiganders don't need some California billionaires telling us what to do, and we aren't buying their false promises.

Cheering chinook salmon along as they navigate the fish ladder at the Ballard Locks in Seattle. Welcome home.

AI data centers' gas turbines and backup diesel generators are polluting the air in our communities. But instead of protecting us, the Trump administration is using the AI boom as justification to gut pollution controls and the Clean Air Act. Tell the EPA to protect our air ⬇️

AI data centers are trying to avoid accountability

Tell the EPA you oppose its proposed rule that would allow AI data centers’ backup generators to avoid clean air rules and keep communities in the dark.

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I saw the NW Detention Center in Tacoma for the first time this weekend. Let's be clear: this is a concentration camp and it needs to be shut down NOW.

In honor of Nancy Nordhoff, join our first Nanday: a postcard writing party supporting Save Our wild Salmon's "Get Out the Vote" campaign. When: September 10, 4pm-6pm Where: WEAN Office, 5603 Bayview Road, Suite 13, Langley, WA 98260 R.S.V.P.: https://forms.gle/sJuAtKwdcgQcorq1A

The #WeekWithoutDriving is less than 2 months away and I've added the RSVP form for this Transit Trekker outing. Join us! cc: @nondriver.bsky.social @ecocityaction.org @seattletru.bsky.social @seattletransitblog.com @futurewise.bsky.social @mayor.seattle.gov transittrekker.com/2026/08/03/w...

Week Without Driving 2026: Transit Trek with King County Parks

Join me and King County Parks on a Transit Trek to one of my favorite places, Maury Island Natural Area, Marine Park, and Dockton Forest on Thursday, October 1. The outing takes place on the first …

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Gallup found seven out of ten Americans would be opposed to a data center in their backyard, with nearly half of those surveyed (48 percent) “strongly opposed” to data centers in their area.

Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard

Your local anti-AI organizer is probably not a CCP plant.

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AI is not just consuming a lot of fossil fuels. It it also enabling the fossil fuel industry to drill more, faster. These applications create far more climate pollution than data centers — 3.3x to 13.3x more, according to new peer-reviewed research. We *have* to start talking about this.

AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought

A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.

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On #datacenters in WA: “Often the people who are first and worst impacted have the greatest barriers to actually engaging in decision-making about what’s going to impact them,” said Leah Wood with Front and Centered. www.dailyuw.com/article/a-ne... @ella-goulet.bsky.social @thedailyuw.bsky.social

New report details negative impacts of data center growth on Washington communities

New report details negative impacts of data center growth on Washington communities

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Far too absent from public debate is a basic truth: until we actually mobilize to dramatically expedite the transition off fossil fuels, we will never get ahead of the curve. No amount of fire preparation will save us from an escalation in these horrors. sethdklein.substack.com/p/we-mobiliz...

We mobilize to put fires out, but not yet to prevent them

While many leaders are comparing the wildfire crisis to the Second World War, most fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action.

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It’s 8am and already 97° in Bakersfield CA at the grape vineyard where these workers are laboring. "Dante" shares, "Harvesting and packing grapes is difficult in the current heat. Plus, we start earlier than usual, which is hard as many of us commute from a distance." #WeFeedYou

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YouTube video by Front and Centered

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In late 2025, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) issued an illegal air permit to the Ash Grove Cement Company. This permit would allow more tire burning, resulting in severe health harms to nearby residents.

🚨New blog post, who dis? 🚨 ICYMI: Celebrating the Second Cohort of the Just Transition Leadership Program frontandcentered.org/icymi-celebr...

Over a little more than 2 decades, the number of extreme #wildfires fires have doubled. In parts of the Western US, fire seasons are lasting a month longer than they did 35 years earlier. Hot temperatures, low snowfall and droughts that span years have turned our terrain into a tinder box.

RANGE Media@rangemedia.co · 4w ago

With the news that one of the fires in Spokane may have been caused by an arsonist, online pundits have slammed former Governor Inslee’s assertion that fires show danger of climate change.