Climate Solutions
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Accelerating clean energy solutions to the climate crisis. Nonprofit based in Seattle and Portland.
Energy-hungry data centers are on the rise, threatening our climate goals and energy affordability. WA legislators are considering bills to protect energy affordability and reliability, making sure data centers run on clean energy and remain transparent about energy use.
Tell WA legislators: do data centers right! | Climate Solutions
Data centers must be clean, accountable and affordable.
www.climatesolutions.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Energy-hungry data centers are on the rise, threatening our climate goals and energy affordability. WA legislators are considering bills to protect energy affordability and reliability, making sure data centers run on clean energy and remain transparent about energy use.
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"How Clean Energy Can Meet Rising Electricity Demand While Delivering Climate and Health Benefits"
Data Center Power Play
Unmitigated data center growth puts the public at risk of higher utility bills and public health costs.
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January 21, 2026 at 7:15 PM
"How Clean Energy Can Meet Rising Electricity Demand While Delivering Climate and Health Benefits"
Oregon lawmakers: let's pass the Climate Resilience Superfund bill to make polluters pay. The largest polluters need to pay their share for the costs of recovery, adaption and resilience.
We’re helping Oregon Make Polluters Pay announcing the Climate Resilience Superfund bill | Climate Solutions
The worsening climate crisis tramples our basic values of safety, wellness, and fairness. For decades, the world’s largest polluters have knowingly dumped climate pollution into our air and water without any accountability, all while banking massive profits. Without course correction, Oregonians will be stuck paying for damages from wildfire, extreme heat, smoke-filled air, flooding, and more with our dollars and our health. It’s well past time that polluters – not Oregonians – pay for the costs of recovery, adaptation, and resilience.
www.climatesolutions.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Oregon lawmakers: let's pass the Climate Resilience Superfund bill to make polluters pay. The largest polluters need to pay their share for the costs of recovery, adaption and resilience.
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More lies and idiocy from Trump about wind energy. China is investing heavily in wind because it is cheap and efficient. Hearing him bloviate on the world stage about these things is so embarrassing.
“China’s total wind generation capacity is 561 GW, which is more than three times more than the United States who comes in second behind China, and 48% of the world’s share of wind power generation.” 🔌💡
January 21, 2026 at 4:28 PM
More lies and idiocy from Trump about wind energy. China is investing heavily in wind because it is cheap and efficient. Hearing him bloviate on the world stage about these things is so embarrassing.
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Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China."
Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth
Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth
January 21, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China."
Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth
Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth
Half of the world's CO2 emissions come from just 23 fossil fuel companies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
January 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Half of the world's CO2 emissions come from just 23 fossil fuel companies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This coal plant was WA's single largest climate polluter. Elected leaders, community advocates and industry negotiated for years to shut it down—protecting the environment, assisting displaced workers, and enabling the state's transition to clean energy. Then Trump butted in.
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January 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM
This coal plant was WA's single largest climate polluter. Elected leaders, community advocates and industry negotiated for years to shut it down—protecting the environment, assisting displaced workers, and enabling the state's transition to clean energy. Then Trump butted in.
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Trump administration doubles and triples down on forcing decrepit, dirty coal plants to stay open. Who's gonna tell them that coal isn't it?
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January 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Trump administration doubles and triples down on forcing decrepit, dirty coal plants to stay open. Who's gonna tell them that coal isn't it?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/c...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/c...
Mark your calendars for May 6: Wawa Gatheru of Black Girl Environmentalist is keynote speaker at Climate Solutions' annual dinner in Seattle. Let's get together for an evening of sustaining connection and community! #RootsofResilience
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January 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Mark your calendars for May 6: Wawa Gatheru of Black Girl Environmentalist is keynote speaker at Climate Solutions' annual dinner in Seattle. Let's get together for an evening of sustaining connection and community! #RootsofResilience
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Our increasing appetite for big data means more big data centers—with implications for energy use and energy costs. Let's make sure ordinary electricity users aren't stuck with outsized bills, and let's invest in transmission capacity to supply clean power where it's needed.
Editorial: Meeting needs for data centers, fair power rates | HeraldNet.com
Shared energy demand for AI and ratepayers requires an increased pace for clean energy projects.
www.heraldnet.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Our increasing appetite for big data means more big data centers—with implications for energy use and energy costs. Let's make sure ordinary electricity users aren't stuck with outsized bills, and let's invest in transmission capacity to supply clean power where it's needed.
Both the WA Attorney General's office and a group of advocacy organzations have filed challenges to the Trump administration's senseless and illegal order to keep the state's last remaining coal power plant open. When WA communities said it, we meant it: Power Past Coal! www.seattletimes.com...
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Both the WA Attorney General's office and a group of advocacy organzations have filed challenges to the Trump administration's senseless and illegal order to keep the state's last remaining coal power plant open. When WA communities said it, we meant it: Power Past Coal! www.seattletimes.com...
Climate Solutions and other public interest groups have challenged the federal Dept. of Energy's illegal order forcing WA's last coal plant to operate past its planned retirement date. We won't let Trump drag us backwards to a time of dirty, unaffordable coal power. earthjustice.org/press/2026/p...
Public Interest Groups Challenge Trump Administration Order to Keep Washington’s Last Coal Plant Operating
DOE’s order disrupts a long-planned shutdown of a coal plant in Centralia, Washington, designed to provide state residents with cleaner air and affordable, reliable, clean energy
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January 15, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Climate Solutions and other public interest groups have challenged the federal Dept. of Energy's illegal order forcing WA's last coal plant to operate past its planned retirement date. We won't let Trump drag us backwards to a time of dirty, unaffordable coal power. earthjustice.org/press/2026/p...
It's a short session with a long to-do list!
Climate Solutions is hard at work on bills to help address families' energy affordability, grow clean energy jobs here in Oregon, and strengthen our resilience, especially in rural and frontline communities.
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Climate Solutions is hard at work on bills to help address families' energy affordability, grow clean energy jobs here in Oregon, and strengthen our resilience, especially in rural and frontline communities.
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A defend-and-deliver moment: A preview of Climate Solutions’ 2026 Oregon legislative priorities | Climate Solutions
Announcing Oregon’s 2026 legislative short session priorities, which aim to double down on climate action that lowers household energy costs, addresses financing gaps left by federal funding cuts, gro...
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January 14, 2026 at 10:38 PM
It's a short session with a long to-do list!
Climate Solutions is hard at work on bills to help address families' energy affordability, grow clean energy jobs here in Oregon, and strengthen our resilience, especially in rural and frontline communities.
shorturl.at/y6Yhj
Climate Solutions is hard at work on bills to help address families' energy affordability, grow clean energy jobs here in Oregon, and strengthen our resilience, especially in rural and frontline communities.
shorturl.at/y6Yhj
"The new law is intended to recover a portion of those costs from companies whose fossil fuel extraction contributed to climate change."
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New Jersey Advances “Polluters Pay” Law to Fund Flood Protection and Climate Projects - Wildwood Video Archive
New Jersey has passed a new “Polluters Pay” law aimed at funding flood protection and climate projects without raising taxes
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January 14, 2026 at 1:13 AM
"The new law is intended to recover a portion of those costs from companies whose fossil fuel extraction contributed to climate change."
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On 1st day of legislative session see our statement + take action! 👉 We don't support Gov. Ferguson’s proposal to shift funding source for #WorkingFamiliesTaxCredit entirely to the #ClimateCommitmentAct. We support WFTC which must be funded thru general fund. frontandcentered.org/front-and-ce...
January 12, 2026 at 10:24 PM
On 1st day of legislative session see our statement + take action! 👉 We don't support Gov. Ferguson’s proposal to shift funding source for #WorkingFamiliesTaxCredit entirely to the #ClimateCommitmentAct. We support WFTC which must be funded thru general fund. frontandcentered.org/front-and-ce...
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🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
The Governor’s budget is being heard this week, and state budget leaders need to hear from you. Urge your legislators to use Climate Commitment Act dollars for their intended purposes and reject the Governor’s proposed budget diversions: wcaction.us/budget!
#EPC #WAleg
The Governor’s budget is being heard this week, and state budget leaders need to hear from you. Urge your legislators to use Climate Commitment Act dollars for their intended purposes and reject the Governor’s proposed budget diversions: wcaction.us/budget!
#EPC #WAleg
Defend climate dollars and reject the Governor's proposed budget diversions
Write to your reps now!
wcaction.us
January 13, 2026 at 7:17 PM
🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
The Governor’s budget is being heard this week, and state budget leaders need to hear from you. Urge your legislators to use Climate Commitment Act dollars for their intended purposes and reject the Governor’s proposed budget diversions: wcaction.us/budget!
#EPC #WAleg
The Governor’s budget is being heard this week, and state budget leaders need to hear from you. Urge your legislators to use Climate Commitment Act dollars for their intended purposes and reject the Governor’s proposed budget diversions: wcaction.us/budget!
#EPC #WAleg
In regulating air quality, the EPA compares industry’s likely $ cost of compliance with the $ benefits to human health. Arguing that this is “imprecise,” Trump officials have now decided the EPA will simply no longer take human health costs into account. At all.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:02 AM
In regulating air quality, the EPA compares industry’s likely $ cost of compliance with the $ benefits to human health. Arguing that this is “imprecise,” Trump officials have now decided the EPA will simply no longer take human health costs into account. At all.
A federal judge ruled today that the Trump administration acted illegally when it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants for projects in Washington, Oregon, California and other blue states. www.seattletimes.com...
January 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
A federal judge ruled today that the Trump administration acted illegally when it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants for projects in Washington, Oregon, California and other blue states. www.seattletimes.com...
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WA needs to 💥 Build SHIIT Now 💥
The new Build SHIIT report with Greenline Insights evaluates 250+ clean energy projects in WA’s pipeline - billions of dollars in economic activity and hundreds of thousands of jobs... all held up by permitting, siting, and interconnection delays.
The new Build SHIIT report with Greenline Insights evaluates 250+ clean energy projects in WA’s pipeline - billions of dollars in economic activity and hundreds of thousands of jobs... all held up by permitting, siting, and interconnection delays.
January 8, 2026 at 6:29 PM
WA needs to 💥 Build SHIIT Now 💥
The new Build SHIIT report with Greenline Insights evaluates 250+ clean energy projects in WA’s pipeline - billions of dollars in economic activity and hundreds of thousands of jobs... all held up by permitting, siting, and interconnection delays.
The new Build SHIIT report with Greenline Insights evaluates 250+ clean energy projects in WA’s pipeline - billions of dollars in economic activity and hundreds of thousands of jobs... all held up by permitting, siting, and interconnection delays.
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Oil and gas companies are sitting on nearly 9,000 approved but unused drilling permits on U.S. federal lands, while the Trump administration invades Venezuela on their behalf. www.landdesk.org/p/data-dump-... via @landdesk.bsky.social
Data Dump: One year into the "energy emergency"
Trump has helped oil and gas companies, but "drill, baby, drill" remains elusive
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January 11, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Oil and gas companies are sitting on nearly 9,000 approved but unused drilling permits on U.S. federal lands, while the Trump administration invades Venezuela on their behalf. www.landdesk.org/p/data-dump-... via @landdesk.bsky.social
Ready to direct your energy towards making systemic change?
WA legislative session starts on Monday, and we've got everything you need to get involved and make sure lawmakers know your priorities.
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WA legislative session starts on Monday, and we've got everything you need to get involved and make sure lawmakers know your priorities.
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January 9, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Ready to direct your energy towards making systemic change?
WA legislative session starts on Monday, and we've got everything you need to get involved and make sure lawmakers know your priorities.
Be sure you're signed up for our action alerts!
#WALeg
WA legislative session starts on Monday, and we've got everything you need to get involved and make sure lawmakers know your priorities.
Be sure you're signed up for our action alerts!
#WALeg
ICYMI: Our ED, Gregg, partnered with other state climate leaders to come out strong against this illegal move by the federal gov't.
In his words: We will be fighting back.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/trum...
In his words: We will be fighting back.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/trum...
Trump should butt out of TransAlta's planned shutdown in WA | Op-Ed
The Trump administration is using its fear-based rhetoric playbook, raising the specter of rolling blackouts to justify keeping a Nixon-era coal plant running.
www.seattletimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:44 PM
ICYMI: Our ED, Gregg, partnered with other state climate leaders to come out strong against this illegal move by the federal gov't.
In his words: We will be fighting back.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/trum...
In his words: We will be fighting back.
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/trum...
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NEW: 2026 environmental legislative priorities announced!
- Protecting Climate and Environmental Health Funding
- Restore Wildfire Resilience Funding
- Data Centers, Environmental Protection, and Affordability
- Bottles and Cans Recycling Refund Act
Join us: wcaction.us/EPC2026
- Protecting Climate and Environmental Health Funding
- Restore Wildfire Resilience Funding
- Data Centers, Environmental Protection, and Affordability
- Bottles and Cans Recycling Refund Act
Join us: wcaction.us/EPC2026
December 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
NEW: 2026 environmental legislative priorities announced!
- Protecting Climate and Environmental Health Funding
- Restore Wildfire Resilience Funding
- Data Centers, Environmental Protection, and Affordability
- Bottles and Cans Recycling Refund Act
Join us: wcaction.us/EPC2026
- Protecting Climate and Environmental Health Funding
- Restore Wildfire Resilience Funding
- Data Centers, Environmental Protection, and Affordability
- Bottles and Cans Recycling Refund Act
Join us: wcaction.us/EPC2026
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January 9, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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