Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, led a bicameral group of 50 lawmakers to sound the alarm over […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Electricity generated by water is clean, renewable, highly reliable, and once built, extremely cost-effective. In the United States, there are 181 federal hydroelectric projects, and 2,221 non-federal hydroelectric projects. These non-federal hydro-projects generate about […]
Aging aircraft & technology threaten NOAA’s airborne weather reconnaissance mission; Bill would codify NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter mission in federal law, authorize $2.5 billion for aircraft acquisition; Hurricane Hunter aircraft gather crucial data about atmospheric rivers, […]
by Jake Goldstein-Street, Washington State StandardJune 18, 2026 Facebook’s parent company must pay the largest campaign finance fine in Washington state history, the state Supreme Court affirmed in a split decision Thursday. Meta urged the […]
by Tom Banse, Washington State StandardJune 18, 2026 Community opposition to big battery farms is spreading across western Washington just as the technology takes on growing importance for the state’s clean energy transition and to […]
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