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FILE - Sonny Curley looks out to the seawall separating his property from the Pacific Ocean at the home he shares with his children and parents Wednesday, May 22, 2024, on the Quinault reservation in Taholah, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Tuesday, July 16, that Washington has awarded $52 million raised by the state's landmark carbon emission pricing law to help Native American tribes respond to climate change. Among the tribes that will benefit is the Quinault Nation on the Pacific coast, which is getting $13 million to help move its two villages to higher ground as seas rise. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
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Funds from Washington’s landmark law help tribes face rising seas, climate change

Washington state allocates $52 million from its 2021 Climate Commitment Act to help Native American tribes combat climate change impacts and move to...

This historical photo provided by the Library of Congress shows Indians fishing for salmon at Celilo Falls, Oregon, on September 1941. The U.S. government on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes, issuing a report that details how the unprecedented structures devastated salmon runs, inundated villages and burial grounds, and continue to severely curtail the tribes' ability to exercise their treaty fishing rights. (Russell Lee/Library of Congress via AP)
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US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region’s Indigenous tribes

The U.S. government acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of hydropower dams on the Columbia and Snake...

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Appeals court rejects climate lawsuit by young Oregon activists

Juliana v United States, a long-running Oregon climate case, has been rejected by federal appeals court.

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10 years after the deadliest US landslide, climate change is increasing the danger

OSO, Wash. (AP) — After the mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history, Jessica...

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