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Most recent posts from Sightline Institute's blog, the Daily Score

May 21
Where Are My Cars: SR-167 HOT Lanes : We’ve written before about the “high occupancy/toll” lane experiment on Washington’s SR-167....
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May 17
Do I Need Another Drink? : Of the 100 medical opinions I’ve gotten, 97 of them say that the indisputable liver damage I have is a result of my binge drinking....
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May 17
Senate Invites Public Comment on Atomic Waste Draft Bill : The US Senate Energy Committee in late April issued a “discussion draft” of comprehensive legislation on how atomic wastes will be managed....
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May 17
Weekend Reading 5/17/13 : Alan National Journal takes a look behind the scenes at what Republican leaders and activists are saying about climate change, and it includes some good news. Anna The best thing I read this week was...
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May 16
The Skinny on WA’s New Stormwater Permits (#2) : Poster for Tox-Ick stormwater campaign.We recently updated you on the new stormwater permits that will soon dictate how Washington state’s most populated areas manage polluted runoff that damages wate...
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May 16
This Year, Waffles : Wow. What else can we say? HUGE THANKS to everyone who chipped in (and even chipped in extra!) to support Sightline during GiveBIG yesterday....
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May 15
Northwest Fossil Fuel Exports: New Sightline Report for Canada : In British Columbia’s provincial elections yesterday, the right-of-center Liberal party pulled off an astonishing upset to hang onto power....
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May 14
Throwing Metro Under the Bus : Metro service cuts hearingHere’s a picture of hundreds of people who crowded into a hearing room Tuesday to protest looming and massive bus cuts at King County Metro....
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May 14
Industry Pollution Expert Calls for Comprehensive Review of Coal Transport Along Railways : Roger O. McClellan is regularly trotted out by coal export backers whenever they are trying to dismiss concerns about coal dust pollution....
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May 10
Weekend Reading 5/10/13 : Clark Even after years of staring at it, I never realized until this week that the oh-so-familiar recycling symbol is in the shape of a Möbius strip. Wow: Google’s Earth Engine now displays 28 years o...
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May 9
The Skinny on WA’s New Stormwater Permits (#1) : i want moar, flickrIn a little less than three months, Washington State’s largest cities and counties must start following new rules on how to manage dirty runoff that washes toxic metals, oil and gre...
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May 8
What Closing Big Oil’s Tax Loophole Could Do For Kids : In Washington, oil refineries have long benefited from an accidental tax loophole so bizarre that the state’s bi-partisan tax review committee can identify no public policy purpose for it. With the Su...
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May 8
Kinder Morgan’s Coal Export Scheme Bites the Dust : Photo by Eric Hess.Huge news on the coal export front just now. As Scott Learn at The Oregonian reports, “Kinder Morgan drops plan to build coal export terminal at Port of St....
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May 7
Northwest Birth Rates: A New Low : According to the latest figures, birth rates in Cascadia (British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho) have fallen to what could very well be an all-time low....
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May 7
Harnessing Our Dark Optimism : Anna Fahey at Whidbey Climate Conference....
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May 3
Washington: Car Crashes Decline Again : One of the often-overlooked benefits of declining driving, particularly among the young, has been a rapid reduction in car crash deaths over the past decade....
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May 3
Weekend Reading 5/3/13 : Anna If this was a pill, you’d do anything to get it. But sequester cuts are shutting down this simple, live-saving, life-extending health program in PA....
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May 2
Weird Weather = Climate Impacts : Flood, KConnors, Morguefile.comAnother installment of the Yale/George Mason research project on American climate attitudes (pdf) is out....
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Apr 30
You Can Make Us This Happy : Augustus Gloop, happy.Who doesn’t want to make us look as dumbstruck-happy as Augustus Gloop with a new bar of Wonka chocolate? Or Veruca Salt eying a golden egg?...
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Apr 29
Recent Coal Export Trends: Q4 2012 : I’m a bit late getting to this, but here’s quarterly data from the latest coal report from the US Energy Information Administration, taking us up through the end of 2012: Nationally, the big story wa...
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Apr 26
Talking Carbon Taxes, Free-Enterprise Style : Photo Credit: Orin Zebest via Compfight cc What’s the best way to make a case for a carbon pollution tax to conservative audiences?...
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Apr 26
Weekend Reading 4/26/13 : Alan The coolest maps of America you’re likely to see for months....
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Apr 24
WA House Closes the Accidental Tax Loophole : Big news just now on Washington’s accidental tax loophole for big oil: the House voted to close it as part of a larger package of reforms to even out the state’s tax code and raise money for public ed...
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