There are currently 124 active oil refineries in the United States with an operating capacity of roughly 17.7 million barrels per day. As the transition away from fossil fuels accelerates careful planning is needed to … Read more
It’s no secret that landscapes dominated by clearcuts, logging roads, and timber plantations pose significant public health and safety risks by amplifying the effects of heat waves, drought, water shortages, wildfires, landslides, floods, invasive species … Read more
Port Townsend, WA – Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE) and Save The Olympic Peninsula (STOP) today filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court for Jefferson County against the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for failing … Read more
MOUNT VERNON, Wash., Nov. 12, 2021 – The nonprofits Stable Planet Alliance and Scientists Warning Europe (SWE) announced publication today of a new paper and accompanying film: the “World Scientists’ Warning into Action” paper – … Read more
By Chad Hanson, Ph.D. and John Talberth, Ph.D. As Congress accelerates work to pass two massive new spending bills – the budget Reconciliation ($3.5 trillion) and Infrastructure ($1.2 trillion) packages – lawmakers need to do … Read more
On July 30th, Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced the GPI Act of 2021, directing the Secretary of Commerce to establish a new metric for measuring US economic performance, setting budget priorities and guiding policy– the … Read more
Last month’s deadly heat wave was a stark reminder that we’re not doing nearly enough to tackle the existential threat of climate change. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide continue to rise at an increasing rate … Read more
In partnership with Dogwood Alliance, CSE has completed a two part series that summarizes what we know about the climate impacts of industrial logging activities in North Carolina. In Part I, and similar to previous … Read more
Sixty-one scientific, conservation community and faith organizations today called on the Biden Administration’s National Climate Task Force to reject the false solutions and narratives offered by Big Timber and instead embrace a climate-forestry for the … Read more
PROJECT OVERVIEW: At COP 26 in Glasgow, President Biden joined 140 other national leaders in signing a pledge to end deforestation and forest degradation by 2030 as an essential strategy for mitigating the worst effects … Read more
For the past three months Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE) and its partners have been challenging clearcutting proposals on state forestlands in Washington on the grounds that clearcutting is both driving climate change and making … Read more