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May 19, 2015

OSU Climate Change Webinar

The OSU Climate Change Outreach Team offers this free webinar, 12-1pm ET, to learn about NOAA's new tool to provide communities with lake level scenarios and assist with planning decisions. Registration required.

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June 10, 2015

DEADLINE: YES! Reporting Fellow

YES! Magazine seeks a journalist for a one-year, full-time, paid, in-house reporting fellowship based in Bainbridge Island, WA (near Seattle). This fellowship is designed to support reporters from communities that are often underrepresented in the field of journalism. Apply by Jun 10.

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ACC Lied About Lobbying Role on Flame Retardants, Consultant Says

"The chemical industry’s powerful trade group, the American Chemistry Council, has long maintained that it had nothing to do with an enormously successful but deceitful lobbying effort in state capitals to defend the use of potentially ineffective and toxic flame retardants in furniture. Now, in a rare breaking of ranks, a top industry consultant is discrediting that story."

Source: Ctr for Public Integrity, 05/13/2015

"Seattle Port Votes to Delay Drilling Rigs on the Way to Alaska"

"The Port of Seattle’s board voted Tuesday to ask that the arrival of Shell’s Arctic drilling rigs be delayed, bowing to a wave of public pressure by protesters and city officials over the company’s plans to drill this summer off the coast of Alaska and use Puget Sound as a home port."

Source: NY Times, 05/13/2015

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