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Wash. Legislature passes landmark bill on recycling fluorescent lights
The State Legislature has passed a bill to create a convenient residential recycling program for compact fluorescent lights and other lights that contain mercury. The bill, ESSB 5543, now awaits only the governor’s signature to become law.
Energy efficiency: The key to our clean energy future
Coalition director Sara Patton discusses how The Northwest’s official electric power planning agency has confirmed, once again, that energy efficiency is the best and cheapest way to cover the next generation’s electricity needs in today’s Oregonian guest column.
Activists seek more public input on Centralia coal plant’s future and urge earlier shutdown
Clean energy activists from across Washington state braved wind, rain and soggy footing to bring the coal-free message to the State Capitol in Olympia on Saturday, Feb. 27. Learn more about the event and see photos inside.
Power Plan: Conserving energy will create jobs
The Columbian has an article about how energy efficiency upgrades will put more green in the wallets of 47,000 workers in four Western states over the next 20 years, according to a plan approved by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.
More Idaho Cities Riding the Clean Energy Wave
They’re not the first and they certainly won’t be the last, but three more Idaho cities are showing how they truly “get” how energy efficiency and renewable energy programs can chop away at their utility bills and help their communities stake a claim to the sustainable energy movement at the local level…
A Success Story Waiting To Happen: Financing Retrofits For All
The Sightline institute has a good primer up on the challenges and promises that energy efficiency financing (like the Coalition’s proposed Energy Efficiency Financing Act now working it’s way through the state legislature) offer Washington state.
Video: Council approves new Northwest Power Plan
Watch online as the the new Northwest Power Plan is approved…
Wash. Governor approves Kittitas wind project
Last week, Washington Governor Chris Gregoire approved the Desert Claim wind project in Kittitas County, eight miles north of Ellensburg, WA.
San Francisco to finance energy efficiency upgrades; Washington state to follow?
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that would create a special tax district to finance energy efficiency, renewable energy and water conservation improvements. This new program is similar to the Energy Efficiency Financing Act that is currently working it’s way through the Washington State Legislature.