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ANOTHER VOICE: Saving our snowpack requires fossil-free economic engines

  • STEVE GHAN

Few have forgotten the anguish of stunted crops and terror of devastating forest fires last year because of the meager snowpack that yielded paltry irrigation water and tinder-dry soils. The snowpack was far below normal last year, not for lack of precipitation (which was normal), but because of how unusually warm it was. Much more of the mountain precipitation fell as rain rather than snow.

Shuttering coal at home, sending it abroad
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Shuttering coal at home, sending it abroad

  • NIGEL DUARA and DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press
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BOARDMAN — The largest power plant in Oregon, the Boardman Coal Plant, sat idle one day earlier this summer, “cold steel” in industry parlance, its dirty power no longer wanted on an electricity grid that is becoming greener.