en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent United States headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 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 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 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 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 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 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 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