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Ballot measures taking aim at climate change, fossil fuels fall short

By Brady Dennis and Dino Grandoni

 

November 07, 2018 07:49 AM

 

Efforts to nudge the nation away from burning fossil fuels and toward harnessing renewable sources of energy were rejected by voters Tuesday across a swath of resource-rich Western states.

 

Voters in Arizona, one of the nation’s most sun-soaked states, handily shot down a measure that would have accelerated its shift toward generating electricity from renewables, particularly solar. Residents in oil- and gas-rich Colorado defeated a measure to sharply limit drilling on state-owned land........read article

 

 

 

Newhouse takes every county in his district

BY Annette Cary

 

November 06, 2018 09:21 PM

Updated 8 hours 34 minutes ago

 

KENNEWICK, WA -- Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., will be returning to Washington, D.C., to represent the Tri-Cities in Congress for a third term.......read article

 

 

 

 

 

 

WSUV researcher studies climate, drought

She connects dots between climatic events and famine amid rising global temperatures

By Dameon Pesanti

 

November 05, 2018 06:00 AM

 

The world’s most catastrophic drought and subsequently deadly famine of the last 800 years was less than a century and a half ago.

 

Now, a Washington State University Vancouver researcher has uncovered the climatic events that gave rise to the Great Drought and warns that rising global temperatures could make a similar drought even worse — should it happen in the modern era.........read article

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