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November 24, 2024
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Northwest’s so-called ‘green’ law firms working for Big Coal

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Top Northwest law firms have, for years, hired out their strategic and lobbying talents to grease big-ticket development projects, from proposed Puget Sound oil ports to trans-continental pipelines to construction of an enormous nuclear power plant in the bucolic Skagit Valley. The drive  to build big, coal-export terminals, on the Columbia River at Longview and Cherry Point north of Bellingham, is getting help from some of the region’s big-name barristers, according to a new report by the Sightline Institute, a “green” research outfit that measures the Northwest’s progress – and regress – in environmental matters. Big Coal “is coming to the Northwest in a big way,” writes Sightline, and is […]

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
jodi@imfreedomalliance.org https://twitter.com/JodiRave

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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