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Climate change creating ‘longer, more intense’ fire seasons, warns interior secretary
Posted by Post-Intelligencer: Joel Connelly on June 13th, 2015
Post-Intelligencer: Climate change is a burning issue for the United States and particularly the American West, according to U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, whose department has to fight increasingly intense forest and range fires.
In a tweet Friday, Jewell warned: “Fire seasons are longer and more intense from climate change. They damage landscapes vital for wildlife and people.”
The 23,000-acre Taylor Bridge fire, east of Cle Elum, consumed forests and threatened homes in 2012. Fires on the east slope...
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Cantwell to Canadian pipeline builder: Play by America’s rules
Posted by Post-Intelligencer: Joel Connelly on January 8th, 2015
Post-Intelligencer: The Keystone XL pipeline won its first round in the new Republican-run Senate on Thursday, but its Canadian builder received a sharp rebuke from Washington’s Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell.
“My message to Trans-Canada Corporation is: Play by the rules,” said Cantwell, who is now the ranking member in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
The committee voted 13-9 is favor of legislation that would bypass the U.S. State Department review, take approval authority away from President...