Environment

A new tool suggests we're underestimating the environmental cost of new roads

It's difficult to reduce our carbon emissions when we keep building more highways. That's what inspired a national coalition of environmental groups to build a calculator that shows how much air pollution is caused by new roads. It’s intended to help local groups lobby for more public transit instead of roads as lawmakers hammer out the infrastructure bill in DC.

20-year legal battle over salmon to be paused until next summer

Environmental groups plan to pause their 20-year legal battle to protect salmon.

Controversial spring bear hunt up for debate in Washington

Conservation groups would like to stop Washington's spring 2022 black bear hunt.

Week In Review

A slow moving landslide and a quick arriving mayoral election, this week

Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Crosscut Eastern Washington reporter Mai Hoang, The Stranger editor Chase Burns, and political analyst and contributing columnist Joni Balter.

KUOW Newsroom

Microsoft: We’re on track to stop polluting this decade. Then we’ll undo all the climate harm we’ve ever done

The tech giant says, by 2025, its operations will use only clean energy.