"Washington voters need to acknowledge Washington Republicans, because of remoteness and wilderness, are a little bit different from the national breed."
The oceans off Oregon and Washington are ground zero for ocean acidification, and Northwest scientists have been at the forefront of a new line of research.
When the Trump administration announced its plans to open up the entire Washington coast, including the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, to oil exploration, I was pissed off.
Visitors to Northwest forests and parks will still see Smokey the Bear and the familiar fire danger color scheme, but new science will inform those predictions.
A rendering of what the Vancouver Energy Project would look like at the Port of Vancouver. The facility could move 360,000 barrels of crude oil from rail to ship every day.