Barbara Bernstein

When Scott Freeman and his family decided to transform a damaged creek in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula from a drainage ditch back into a stream that could again nurture salmon, they knew the task would be formidable and the rewards plentiful. In Saving Tarboo Creek, Scott... Read more

In 2016 while on the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump alarmed leaders throughout the world when he said during a Town Hall, that there are several scenarios in which nuclear weapons should be employed by the U.S., including against ISIS. "Somebody hits us within ... Read more

Before oil and coal project proposals started popping up in communities across the Pacific Northwest, plans to build Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminals were emerging along the coastline from Oregon to British Columbia. And now that nearly every proposed oil and coal termina... Read more

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along the Columbia River in eastern Washington, is the most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere. Clean up of its innumerous leaking tanks and unlined pits of radioactive waste has been moving at a glacial pace for forty years... Read more

Now that Northwest communities have turned back nearly every coal and oil project proposed for the region, the "natural" gas industry is upping its ante in the Northwest. Actually before massive oil and coal export terminals began to threaten Oregon and Washington, Liquid N... Read more

For four and a half years community and climate activists, health care workers, teachers, longshoremen and first responders in the Portland-Vancouver region have been working hard to stop the largest oil-by-rail terminal in North America, from being built at the Port of Va... Read more

Last week, the bulk of the National Parks Service advisory board resigned en masse in condemnation of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's abject indifference to climate change and the department's massive roll back of protections for public lands. This comes on top of the Trump... Read more

This spring, Oregon has the opportunity to take a major step in the transition from polluting energy to a clean energy future. The Clean Energy Jobs bill, currently being considered by the Oregon legislature, limits climate pollution and invests in clean energy strategies t... Read more

Donald Trump is targeting the Pacific Northwest for accelerated fossil fuel development. He brought the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay back from the dead, designating it as the highest priority site for LNG development on the West Coast. And now he is opening up the c... Read more

Toward the end of 2016 Sightline Institute's Programs Director Eric de Place created a Trump Time Capsule project. He sent out an email to his friends and colleagues asking them to write down their predictions for the future, trying to envision the unusual events and disrup... Read more