http://wcvoters.org daily 1 2008-02-26T00:00:08Z http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/environment-again-a-source-of-friction-in-olympia Clean-water advocates at the Capitol fear environmental protections could be repealed or softened this year as part of a budget and tax deal. No publisher intern 2012-01-31T00:24:13Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/compromise-sought-on-green-power-mandate Power companies this month are facing mandates voters imposed in 2006 to either produce green energy or buy credits from those who do. No publisher intern 2012-01-30T18:34:47Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-releases/lcv-applauds-the-obama-administration2019s-rejection-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski issued the following statement in response to media reports indicating that the Obama administration intends to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline: No publisher intern 2012-01-23T18:25:13Z Press Release http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/state-lawmakers-seek-ban-on-toxins-in-kid-products Washington state legislators announced plans Wednesday to ban a suspected carcinogen from being used as a flame retardant in children's products. No publisher intern 2012-01-16T20:25:33Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/pollution-free-prosperity-is-it-possible-in-an-economy-that-looks-like-this Green Acre Radio is a weekly radio program focusing on important issues in the environmental and sustainability movement. This report examines the 2012 Environmental Priorities: "Pollution-Free Prosperity," "Fulfilling Our Clean Energy Future," and the "Toxic-Free Kids Act". No publisher intern 2012-01-16T20:00:39Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/toxic-flame-retardant-ban-environmental-goal-for-session The environmental community has just one priority bill – a ban on toxic flame retardants in baby and children’s products – in a 2012 legislative session consumed by the state budget crisis. No publisher intern 2012-01-16T20:05:47Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/a-federal-judge-told-polluters-and-regulators-to-follow-the-law ECHOING the impatience of an earlier U.S. Supreme Court decision, a federal judge told five Washington oil refineries to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and directed the state to enforce the law. No publisher intern 2012-01-04T21:17:31Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-releases/judge-orders-state-and-regional-air-agencies-to-regulate-climate-change-pollution-from-big-oil-1 Seattle, WA—A federal judge today ruled that the Washington Department of Ecology, Northwest Clean Air Agency, and Puget Sound Clean Air Agency have unlawfully failed to regulate climate change pollution from the five oil refineries operating in Washington State. No publisher shannon 2011-12-02T21:57:52Z Press Release http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/the-coal-pipeline-in-pacific-northwest-a-local-battle-has-global-fallout-1 The flyer and I landed in Matt Krogh's Bellingham office on the same October afternoon. I had stopped by to hear why he thought building the country's largest coal port just north of town was a bad idea; the four-page full-color mailing had arrived to try to convince him otherwise. No publisher intern 2011-11-30T18:41:17Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/black-diamond-shows-democracy-in-spades "It's the town that roared," says David Bricklin, a Seattle attorney who said he's never seen a political uprising to match this in more than three decades of working on local land-use issues. No publisher shannon 2011-11-18T22:42:42Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/epa-to-be-gop-target-in-2012 Some Republicans agree and say that the GOP focus on the EPA as a job-killing agency may not play well in a presidential election. “If I were talking to the Republican candidates … I would say the notion of disbanding [the] EPA is a bad idea — it feeds into this notion that Republicans are crazy people,” energy industry attorney Patrick Traylor, who is a partner Hogan Lovells, said at an Oct. 20 Environmental Law Institute meeting. No publisher shannon 2011-11-16T22:38:32Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/steven-c.-gonzalez-named-to-state-supreme-court Gov. Christine Gregoire named King County Superior Court Judge Steven González to the state Supreme Court Tuesday, replacing the retiring Justice Gerry Alexander. She called him a “very good listener,” who as a judge always has had a “thorough understanding of the issues” before him. No publisher shannon 2011-11-16T22:33:05Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/d.c.-dawdles-california-leads-on-climate California adopted final rules to implement a cap and trade program to reduce climate pollution across its economy, beginning in 2013. No publisher intern 2011-10-28T17:40:51Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/dire-economy-should-not-betray-northwests-environmental-values Guest columnists Rodney L. Brown and Scott Wyatt caution that state lawmakers should not betray Northwest's long-standing environmental assets and values. Those values have lured and retained businesses and qualified workers. No publisher intern 2011-10-24T19:04:59Z Press Clip http://wcvoters.org/press-room/press-clips/scott-white-tribute-to-a-young-leader During his two short years in the legislature, White crossed partisan lines in search of common ground. No publisher intern 2011-10-24T18:16:05Z Press Clip