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Daniel Jack Chasan

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Daniel Jack Chasan is an author, attorney, and writer of many articles about Northwest environmental issues. You can reach him in care of editor@crosscut.com.
Active since April 2007
Stories by Daniel Jack Chasan
Supreme Court's Sackett decision a blow to clean water
READ MORE | 9 COMMENTSThe coal port issue is spreading all over the Northwest
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSCoos Bay's dirty little (coal) secret
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSWhy a new invasion of tankers threatens Northwest waters
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSEnvironmentalists on alert over 'streamlining' measure in Legislature
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe exhibit Gauguin would have killed to see
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWWill taxpayers be taken for a ride on new state irrigation plans?
READ MORE | 13 COMMENTSBehind Nevada's victory over Washington at nuclear tug-of-war
READ MORE | 9 COMMENTSPresident Obama's poster fish for reform: the salmon
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSOkanogan County takes aim at environmentalist over wolf protection
READ MORE | 11 COMMENTSWhat will we find, should we dare delve, awaiting us in 2012?
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSBest of 2011: Would a Washington state coal port mean a damn thing to the environment?
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSBad goat: when should the feds have shot the killer?
READ MORE | 8 COMMENTSSequim mastodon creates mystery about the first humans here
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSWhile citizens are told to have courage, Metro ducks
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSAn end to tug-of-war on Clinton's 'Roadless Rule'?
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSDam removal: no one has a model of how to go forward
READ MORE | 12 COMMENTSOregon's wolves: still facing a firing squad?
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSTime to suspend all deep-ocean commercial fishing?
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSObama keeps on dithering over disposal of Hanford's nuclear waste
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSCan a shaky conservation plan protect Washington's wolves?
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSWestern art: A window into our heroic past
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWRichard Nixon, the unlikely environmentalist
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSCan little old Washington influence the price of coal to China?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWBehind a judge's refusal to go along with Obama's river plan
READ MORE | 8 COMMENTSArt and the Far West: 'chasms without and chasms within'
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSA new SAM show is a foray into our environmental history
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWWould a Washington state coal port mean a damn thing to the environment?
READ MORE | 16 COMMENTSThe road leading to Alberta oil sands gets bumpy
READ MORE | 9 COMMENTSClimate change menaces the future of lynx
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSNew battleground for the Seattle waterfront
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSHailed last year for collaborating, Colville Forest factions have gotten nowhere
READ MORE | 12 COMMENTSLost civilization along West Coast? New evidence says yes
READ MORE | 7 COMMENTSAn environmental scorecard from Olympia
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSHow federal budget-makers cut wolves from the endangered-species list
READ MORE | 9 COMMENTSScientist is taking charge at People for Puget Sound
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSBurke Museum's owl show opens a door to a larger view
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWDreams of more irrigation meet the environmental questions
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSAn irrigation project with New Deal echoes blooms in Eastern Washington
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSIs the referendum on Seattle's tunnel legal?
READ MORE | 18 COMMENTSTar sands oil: Northwest issues swirl
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSHow great corporate power shadows Gregoire on coal shipments
READ MORE | 25 COMMENTSWould Washington legislature try to ease protection of gray wolves?
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSCoal plan in Longview keeps growing
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWLongview coal port: a big plan well hidden
READ MORE | 7 COMMENTSA new tool for fighting rural sprawl
READ MORE | 10 COMMENTSTwain's 'Huck Finn' transcends its time and prejudice
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSAn ode to two years: one just past, the other here so fast
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWHow Maury Island's mining opponents finally prevailed
READ MORE | 10 COMMENTSBest of 2010: Why J.D. Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' still provokes book bans
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSBest of 2010: Behind Weyerhaeuser's move to REIT-hood
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSCourt requires longer view on operations of Icicle Creek hatchery
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWPuget Sound Partnership reaches a crossroads
READ MORE | 14 COMMENTSShould Longview help China burn more coal?
READ MORE | 11 COMMENTSEnvironmentalists knock Obama plan for spotted owls
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWGreens' state agenda: Try, try again
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWMcKenna v. Gregoire on Obamacare: Politics, yes, and a lot of semantics, too
READ MORE | 18 COMMENTSFor tar sands developers, a long and winding road leads through the Northwest
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSIdaho sends a message: It's fine to shoot wolves
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSIncome tax opponents, Eyman triumphed together
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe mystery of Canada's huge 2010 salmon runs
READ MORE | 9 COMMENTSWhat's happened to my country?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWIncome-tax opposition on message, and on track
READ MORE | 27 COMMENTSMemories of toxic rain in Ruston, and the smelter that shaped a city
READ MORE | 13 COMMENTSSpotted owls get a hand from Obama, but is it enough?
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSIncome tax measure: Is it about trust?
READ MORE | 33 COMMENTSFixing the group that's supposed to fix Puget Sound
READ MORE | 20 COMMENTSWould a state income tax harm the economy? Far from proven.
READ MORE | 25 COMMENTSObama, like Bush, seems to be stifling salmon science
READ MORE | 7 COMMENTSPatient communications: When doctors missed the signs
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSHow a Seattle group helped save the north's forests
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSWho does McKenna represent? Courts will consider
READ MORE | 16 COMMENTSR-71 petition signing case could rise again
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSUW's new Environment College: just for the believers?
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSCourt tells Bethel board member free speech isn't a free pass
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWLet's really talk about taking down those Snake River dams
READ MORE | 26 COMMENTS'Audubon' editor created a great magazine
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWSalmon or political games? Obama administration makes its choice
READ MORE | 10 COMMENTSMy friend was a Harvard fraud
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWIs Gulf spill really going to lead to changes?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWMcKenna's health care suit: not so far out?
READ MORE | 14 COMMENTSIncome tax in Washington: Has the climate changed?
READ MORE | 18 COMMENTSFeds vs. fish: crying over spilled water
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSWho killed the water quality tax?
READ MORE | 7 COMMENTSThe annexation shuffle
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSIs burning wood the green way to healthier state forests?
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSWhy J.D. Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' still provokes book bans
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSAs the gray wolf recovers, who are its friends?
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSObama wants more nuclear power, but what about the waste?
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSAsarco's unlikely boon to the environment
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWColumbia River: Will Obama's feds finally aim high?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWPuget Sound report makes no waves
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWAre super-majorities in the legislature unconstitutional?
READ MORE | 27 COMMENTSWhen is an oil fee not an oil fee?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWA legal hot potato: Should felons vote?
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSTop green priority in the legislature: a fee on oil
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSBehind Weyerhaeuser's move to REIT-hood
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSA New Year's poem
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSBest of 2009: If sturgeon could talk
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSAs California greens, Northwest power gains
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSThis kind of thing has got to stop
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWTime to 'claim the lane' on bike safety
READ MORE | 14 COMMENTSRestoring saltwater, and nature, to the Nisqually River estuary
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSArguing, still, over Columbia River dams
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWHow taking out dams splits environmental groups
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSBracing lessons for Northwest fisheries ... from the Northeast
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSBigger lessons in the Green River floodplain
READ MORE | 9 COMMENTSKeeping King County's tiny Navy afloat
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSObama science goes schizophrenic on salmon restoration
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSJustice for sale
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSObama sticks with the Bush approach on Columbia River salmon
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSDear Legislator. Never mind.
READ MORE | 15 COMMENTSA nick-of-time court ruling stops the gravel project on Maury Island
READ MORE | 10 COMMENTSIs White Center really part of Seattle?
READ MORE | 13 COMMENTSShowdown at Icicle Creek
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSThe little tugboat that could
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSTracking down the right tool
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSBreaching Northwest dams: push comes to shove
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSMetro's dilemma: high demand, thin wallet
READ MORE | 15 COMMENTSThe great Vashon Island library war
READ MORE | 10 COMMENTSWhy Northwest salmon are smiling
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWPhyllis Lamphere is pushing for state income tax
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWObama: Good news for Columbia River salmon
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSBack to the drawing board on spotted owls
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSStreet scene
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWWhen is 'Buy American' the point?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWWhat we need is 'one orca, one vote'
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWOlympia's red ink flows toward schools
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSStalking the elusive state-tax dollar
READ MORE | 22 COMMENTSTake the cash, deal with the strings
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe Bush court sets back environmental litigation
READ MORE | 7 COMMENTSA desert town's dusty soul
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSBPA: Ready for a new Act?
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSBPA gets a new jolt, thanks to the stimulus bill
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSNew light on the mystery of the vanished Clovis people
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSStimulating a little progress on Hanford cleanup
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSThis great coming together
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWBush gets in a few last whacks at Northwest forests
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSThe Year in Verse
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSMeet the Pacific albus tree, harbinger of green forestry
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSAre Republicans being denied First Amendment rights?
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSDear Barack: Here's your handy green agenda
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWA few words of English
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWHow Wall Street is destroying the timber way of life
READ MORE | 9 COMMENTSIs this any way to protect Puget Sound?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWSaving Puget Sound? Exactly how?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe Navy wins on sonar, not that anyone's surprised
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWA court blocks an Arctic Ocean drilling plan by Shell
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWRestoring Puget Sound: It's the land use, stupid!
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSThe heart of a heart surgeon
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe home-loan pyramid
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWHood Canal: It's not always greener over the septic tank
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSThe murky dealings of Brightwater
READ MORE | 17 COMMENTSA Labor Day story: the cost of a finger lost
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSPaying for our growing pains
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSPuget Sound triage
READ MORE | 8 COMMENTSA new owl plan with the same old goal: more logging
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWGauging the biofuels backlash
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSSalmon on the Columbia: See you in court
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSThe 100-year gamble to save our quality of life
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSWashington candidates, campaigning on your dime
READ MORE | 6 COMMENTSSocial progress in White Center
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWGentrifying White Center
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe real battle in Seattle was one of futility
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSThe long leash of the law
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThere's nothing new in a plan to save Puget Sound
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWAnother Teton Dam
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSClinton's gas tax holiday is no vacation
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWAn Earth Day accounting of planet-saving efforts
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSGo fish: The government's answer to depleted stocks
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWTacoma: Dam if we do
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSIt's their party, they can cry if they want to
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSChanging and challenging winds in the power industry
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSDon't we remember? Denying the parties their caucuses was unconstitutional
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWAs the snow goose flies
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSOrca recovery effort: more of the same
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSShelling out to save Puget Sound
READ MORE | 9 COMMENTSAgain, it's the economy
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWOne dam after another
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWTukwila: cradle of Puget Sound civilization
READ MORE | 7 COMMENTSSeattle's pedestrian attitude toward pedestrians
READ MORE | 12 COMMENTSNew Years' Eve memories, of Kabul
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSShould King County be in the ferry business again?
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSStormwater runoff: an impermeable problem
READ MORE | 8 COMMENTSTax-reduction redux
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSEternal dam nation
READ MORE | 12 COMMENTSGenocide by any other name
READ MORE | 10 COMMENTSThe last election day
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWA great big dose of antiestablishmentarianism
By David Brewster, Knute Berger, O. Casey Corr, Daniel Jack Chasan, and Chris Vance
READ MORE | 8 COMMENTSChange the climate on Saturday
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe 20-year war over Hanford clean-up
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSProposition 1: the arguments against, deconstructed
READ MORE | 11 COMMENTSThe new hot spot in the environmental protection war is the Arctic
READ MORE | 4 COMMENTSA wilderness discovery brings to bear new problems
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWWant to save Puget Sound? Do the science first
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSDeja vu in the wilderness
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSIs Tim Eyman's I-960 unconstitutional?
READ MORE | 27 COMMENTSCritters don't care what country they're in, but it makes a difference
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWMoney, politics, public relations, science: the many challenges of saving Puget Sound
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTS
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