Northwest (OR WA)

October 1, 2019 to October 3, 2019

GreenTech 2019

The Environmental Law Institute and collaborators will host this event in Seattle, Washington, to explore innovative and transformative technologies and the unique opportunities and challenges they present to protecting the environment.

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Closure of Civilian Conservation Centers Ignites Controversy

A decades-old environmental jobs program that provided work for thousands of disadvantaged young people across more than a dozen states has been hit with one of the largest federal downsizings in a decade. Find out how the closing of some Civilian Conservation Centers may be a story near you, from the latest TipSheet.

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Is Your Local Landfill Leaking Methane?

It’s a good case for the global-local nexus: The potent greenhouse gas methane may be leaking from your local landfill. And this week’s TipSheet explains the latest news developments in this long-standing controversy, as well as policy disputes over capturing the gas. Plus, get story ideas and questions to ask for your local reporting.

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"Cooke Aquaculture Pays $332,000 Over Escaped Atlantic Salmon"

"A salmon-farming company with net pens in Rich Passage has agreed to pay $332,000 in fines after one of its floating pens collapsed in 2017, releasing a quarter-million nonnative Atlantic salmon into Puget Sound near Cypress Island, about 10 miles southwest of Bellingham."

Source: Kitsap Sun/AP, 05/01/2019

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