For the long-plodding electricity sector, “transition” doesn’t begin to convey the stunning magnitude of what this decade just saw transpire. At the same time, the magnitude of what’s just occurred is only beginning to approach the magnitude of what we need to achieve in the years to come.

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The US Power Sector’s Decade In Review: Clean Energy Ascendant, Fossil Fuels Intransigent
Julie McNamara, Senior Energy analyst
December 20, 2019 5:15 PM EDT

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Oregon Climate Impacts: 2019 is The Year for Bold Climate Legislation
January 30, 2019 4:46 PM EDT
In the last decade or so, Oregon has endured destructive wildfires, reductions in snowpack, and declining fisheries. First responder and resident Oregonian communities alike still vividly recall the devastation brought by the 2003 B&B Complex wildfire. Although the Beaver State had a good 2018 ski season, snowpack this winter is more than one-quarter down from what has in the past been considered ‘normal’. Ocean acidification is killing oyster and plankton in farms along the Oregon coast.