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Posted by David Haviland
on October 1, 2009 at 5:27 am (671 social interactions)
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Following the introduction in the US Senate today of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Climate Solutions hosted a telephone conference to emphasize the need for urgent action on comprehensive clean energy legislation this year.
Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon applauded Chairmen Kerry and Boxer for their leadership on comprehensive climate and clean energy reform. “The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act will put our country on the right path to ending our dependence on foreign oil and transforming our energy economy. Today marks the beginning of an extremely important debate in the Senate that will determine the nation’s economic future and the quality of life for our children and grandchildren. This legislation will make our air cleaner, strengthen our national security, and put millions of people to work creating clean, renewable energy in Oregon and across America.”
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Posted by David Haviland
on October 1, 2009 at 5:26 am (1299 social interactions)
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Chehalis, WA - A former resident of Lewis County, Washington, KAREN KRISTINE SUDDERTH, 52, formerly of Chehalis, Washington, was taken into custody today at Sea-Tac Airport as she arrived on a flight from Thailand. There has been a warrant out for SUDDERTH’s arrest since January 22, 1997, for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution. In July 1999, SUDDERTH was indicted by a federal grand jury for International Parental Kidnapping. According to court documents, the case began on August 30, 1996, when SUDDERTH failed to bring her son, who was then five-years-old, to a scheduled weekend visitation with his father. Mother and son fled the U.S. in September 1996, and remained out of the reach of law enforcement until today. The son turned 18 last week, prompting SUDDERTH to contact law enforcement and return to the United States.
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Posted by David Haviland
on September 30, 2009 at 10:56 am (1069 social interactions)
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Montesano, WA - The Grays Harbor Department of Emergency Management announced that the Earthquake and Tsunami in Samoa yesterday, caused a tsunami advisory for the West Coast of Mexico to the Oregon-Washington border from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). AT NO TIME was the Grays Harbor area ever warned of a Tsunami watch or Warning. The Grays Harbor area saw a very slight 1 inch rise in water which was predicted by NOAA’s West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. Sheriff Whelan, the Director of Emergency Management for Grays Harbor County, received periodic updates throughout the day from the warning center and was in contact with other County officials who were monitoring the situation. At the time of the advisory, entities of Grays Harbor County were participating in a region wide Tsunami Exercise based in Pacific County.
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Posted by David Haviland
on September 30, 2009 at 6:05 am (594 social interactions)
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Centralia, WA - It's another round in the fight for cleaner air in Washington. Conservation groups have appealed an air pollution permit issued to the only coal-fired power plant in the state, located in Centralia. They say the plant, owned by Canadian company TransAlta, produces about 10 percent of the global warming pollution in the state.
Attorney Joshua Osborn-Klein with Earthjustice, the law firm that filed the appeal on behalf of the groups, says the state has been in negotiations with TransAlta for years - but has not taken a tough enough stance on reducing the plant's emissions.
"Those mercury controls that have been proposed would be voluntary reductions; and the nitrogen oxide haze pollution controls would not require the type of technology that is recognized as being available and effective at reducing that kind of pollution."
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Posted by David Haviland
on September 30, 2009 at 5:25 am (930 social interactions)
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Olympia, WA - Seasonal flu vaccine has arrived in Washington. The seasonal flu vaccine won’t protect you from H1N1 (swine flu), but it will help you and your family stay healthy this flu season. State health officials urge everyone to do their part by getting vaccinated.
Every year about 36,000 people in the United States die from seasonal flu-related illness and more than 225,000 people are hospitalized. It isn’t too early to get a flu vaccine. The protection you get will not wear off before the flu season is over.
“With all the attention to H1N1, people may forget that seasonal flu can also be a very serious disease,” says State Health Officer Dr. Maxine Hayes. “The best way to avoid seasonal flu is to get vaccinated each year. And now is the time to do it.”
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