en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Today's edition of Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 San Francisco did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care program -- seeing doctors, filling prescriptions, and getting surgeries they could not otherwise afford. http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_health_overhaul_san_francisco.html?source=rss Human Health California 11/20/2009 Seattle Post-Intelligencer Oregon tree farmers are planting at least 20,000 coastal redwood trees a year in Lane and Douglas counties. They're driven less the awe the big trees inspire in many people, than by the best return on their investment in 30 or 40 years, when the trees are harvested. http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091119/NEWS02/911190312/-1/NEWS Forests Oregon 11/19/2009 Ashland Daily Tidings A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish. Fisheries biologists from 10 government agencies and private groups are working shifts to try to save the salmon and trout. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010313642_apuslandslidefish.html?syndication=rss Salmon Washington 11/20/2009 Seattle Times The trend of people no longer being able to afford health insurance has been getting worse, Washington officials say. A new state study predicts the number of people here without insurance will hit 1 million by the end of 2011. http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news.newsmain/article/0/1/1580243/KPLU.Local.News/%E2%80%99Under-Uninsured%E2%80%99.Growing.as.Fast.as.Uninsured Human Health Washington 11/19/2009 KPLU A survey of 90 big US companies found that most were addressing climate change, either by cutting energy use, measuring greenhouse gas emissions, adopting policies to cut emissions, or pushing for federal legislation to do the same. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/19/BU2S1AMM81.DTL&feed=rss.news Climate Green Business United States 11/19/2009 San Francisco Chronicle And at a hearing on Capitol Hill, forest officials and lawmakers discussed ways that federal forestland could help combat climate change on at least two fronts. http://news.opb.org/article/6244-officials-say-forests-fight-climate-change-two-fronts/ Climate Forests Oregon US Northwest 11/19/2009 Oregon Public Broadcasting Why is it broadly accepted that elderly Americans should have universal health care, while it's immensely controversial to seek universal coverage for children? What's the difference, asks Nicholas Kristof, except that health care for children is far cheaper? http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2010311913_kristof201.html?syndication=rss Human Health United States 11/19/2009 Seattle Times Washington's home-weatherization efforts have fallen at least two months behind goals set under the federal stimulus aid, the result of a mix-up over conflicting wage requirements under federal and state laws. http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/1041764.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theolympian-News+%28The+Olympian+-+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Efficiency Washington 11/19/2009 Olympian They walk in single file -- black- and gray-coated wolves gliding through a snowy open forest in eastern Oregon. The remarkable video, captured last week by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, is further evidence that wolves are re-establishing themselves here. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/eastern_oregon_wolves_again_st.html Wildlife Oregon 11/20/2009 Oregonian A pastoral campground on the banks of the Columbia River has for decades provided about 60 low-income residents with a clean, cheap, and safe place to live in an Oregon county with a dearth of decent affordable housing. But regulators say it's operating illegally and the long-term tenants must go. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/11/a_mixed_thanksgiving_for_sauvi.html Economy Oregon 11/19/2009 Oregonian With style, verve and righteous anger, a new documentary exposes the bottled water industry's role in suckering the public, harming our health, accelerating climate change, and contributing to overall pollution. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow/459516/bottled_water_sucks Sustainable Living Water 11/19/2009 The Nation On Monday comes the latest in the long-running court battle over the government's plan to run its hydroelectric dams without pushing Columbia Basin salmon closer to extinction. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/portland_judge_has_questions_a.html Salmon Oregon United States Washington 11/19/2009 Oregonian Wetlands near a Forest Grove sewage treatment could be turned into a park, a plan that delights area birdwatchers, but there's no money budgeted for the effort in the city west of Portland. http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2009/11/changes_afoot_at_fernhill_wetl.html Environment Oregon 11/19/2009 Oregonian Portland may be at the edge of the continent, but in so many ways it's right at the center of Al Gore's green thinking. http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/11/sliding_backward_on_climate_ch.html Climate Oregon United States 11/19/2009 Oregonian The Seattle Housing Authority unveiled a plan last week to remake Yesler Terrace's 561 units of public housing into a mixed-use area of office, housing, and retail with buildings up to 22 stories high. http://www.realchangenews.org/index.php/site/archives/3453/ Economy Washington 11/19/2009 Real Change The Senate needs 60 votes to bring its health care bill to the floor. To round up those votes, the bill unveiled Wednesday costs less than the House version, and delays the effective date for many provisions to 2014. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120583684&ft=1&f=1001 Human Health United States 11/19/2009 NPR As we approach the Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference, December 7 to 18--the world's last chance to secure an emissions reductions agreement that will replace the Kyoto Protocol before it expires--activists racing against a ticking environmental bomb are channeling their energies at the UN talks and beyond. Join them. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow/498561/toward_copenhagen Climate United States 11/19/2009 The Nation The chief federal appeals court judge in San Francisco bluntly ordered the Obama administration Thursday to stop resisting his finding that the wife of a lesbian court employee was entitled to government insurance coverage. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/19/BADV1ANFSR.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea Human Health California 11/19/2009 San Francisco Chronicle With less than three weeks remaining before negotiators gather in Copenhagen to hammer out a global response to climate change, a rapid-fire succession of countries are unveiling national plans that serve as opening bids for reining in heat-trapping emissions. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/science/earth/20climate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Climate 11/19/2009 New York Times House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday predicted that she can corral enough moderate Democrats to guarantee passage of health care overhaul legislation -- even if it doesn't contain a controversial House proposal that would expand abortion limits. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120587627&ft=1&f=1001 Human Health Population United States 11/19/2009 NPR A nonprofit group's campaign to hold free medical clinics for the uninsured in three states is turning into a not-so-subtle jab at moderate Democrats to support their party's efforts to reform health care. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010313598_apushealthoverhaulclinics.html?syndication=rss Human Health United States 11/20/2009 Seattle Times Rooms in the Vancouver and Whistler athletes' villages will feature recycling containers -- called Waste Not Baskets -- made from recycled plastic. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=7c656836-bc1e-4ef4-b2ec-09e52698cb06&k=36289 Sustainable Living British Columbia 11/20/2009 Vancouver Sun The state of Oregon has received a $1.25 million grant from the federal government to study green jobs. http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20091120/BUSINESS/911200320/1040 Green Jobs Oregon 11/20/2009 Salem Statesman Journal Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid worked Thursday to nail down the votes needed to move to a final debate on health-care legislation, but a tepid assessment of the public insurance plan he crafted emerged as the latest potential obstacle to the passage of the far-reaching changes. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111902631.html?wprss=rss_print Human Health United States 11/20/2009 Washington Post