KC Golden | The Seattle Times

May 6, 2019 at 2:30 pm

Who pays for climate damages? ‘Big Oil’ doesn’t want to | Op-Ed

We can have a fair, effective climate policy. Or we can protect fossil fuel companies from the consequences of the climate havoc they continue to...

June 6, 2017 at 3:00 pm

More than ever, climate justice depends on engaged citizens | Op-Ed

Anyone who’s waiting for federal leadership on climate change isn’t serious about solutions. President Donald Trump has made it painfully clear: It’s on us.

On Monday May 4, 2015 the 400-foot-long Shell drilling rig destined for Arctic waters off Alaska, sits in the bay in front of Port Angeles.
The Port of Seattle must apply for a new land-use permit in order to serve as a hub starting this summer for Shell’s offshore Arctic oil-drilling fleet, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said Monday morning.

May 7, 2015 at 6:17 pm

Shell and high water: the climate battle of Seattle | Guest columnist

Arctic drilling is a threat to the environment, and Seattle needs to stand up for the future.

Opinion

December 15, 2013 at 5:09 pm

Guest: Decarbonizing our future

WE have met the enemy, and it is not us. It is not civilization. It is not energy production per se. It is carbon. It’s...

Opinion

June 6, 2012 at 4:34 pm

We must do more to accelerate solutions to climate change

Climate change should be the subject of a robust national dialogue about the best strategies for solutions, write William Ruckelshaus and K.C. Golden. Politics should...

Opinion

December 24, 2010 at 4:00 pm

You can have both jobs and a cleaner environment

Guest columnist K.C. Golden says its time to do away with the old jobs-vs.-environment policy discussions. Good policy and investment that protects the environment will...

Opinion

December 15, 2009 at 3:59 pm

U.S. climate change needed globally and to create economic opportunity

President Obama arrives in Copenhagen Friday, the last day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Guest columnist K.C. Golden notes how hungry for U.S....

Opinion

May 18, 2009 at 3:49 pm

Time to scale up the new energy economy

The federal finding that climate pollution hurts public health is not the only reason society should step up efforts to combat climate change, write guest...

Opinion

May 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

A step in the right direction on national climate policy

Sen. Maria Cantwell will hold constituent meetings this week to talk about federal climate policy in advance of a Senate vote on the Climate...

Opinion

October 20, 2006 at 12:00 am

Initiative 937: Vote “yes” for a clean energy future

Washington is blessed with some of the cheapest power and cleanest air in the nation for two reasons: • Our history of long-term investment...

Opinion