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Article from 2007 on Disney's Steamboat Ventures investing in a startup called EdgeCast which leased a facility in Seattle operated by Switch and Data (SDXC).

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. new project providing nearly 600 electric charging stations throughout the airport for ground support equipment (GSE) such as baggage tugs, bag ramps and pushback vehicles. Converting the GSE from fossil fuel to electric, each year the project is projected to save $2.8 million in airline fuel costs and 10,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions - the equivalent of taking 1,900 cars off the road.

Washington is suing Monsanto over widespread PCBs contamination, the first U.S. state to take such an action. Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court, at a press conference in Seattle on Thursday. According to the Associated Press, Washington is seeking damages on several grounds, including product liability for Monsanto's alleged failure to warn about the dangers of PCBs; negligence; and trespass for injuring the state's natural resources.

Seattle - Today, Stand.earth, the environmental advocacy group leading the campaign to persuade Starbucks to make a recyclable paper cup, released a satirical video by Erika Share, former Senior Editor at The Onion and Anthony Easton, former managing editor of ClickHole.

Outdoor retailer REI is saving 1.8 million KW-h per year after installing energy-efficient cooling systems at its Seattle datacenter. The project reduced energy consumption tied to cooling by 93% and had a payback period of less than 1 year.

Outdoor retailer REI retrofitted its Seattle data center, resulting in a 93 percent reduction in the cooling energy used

Amazon intends to install solar power panels at more than 50 warehouses and distribution centers worldwide, including 15 this year in the US. The company estimated power generation of as much as 41 megawatts of by year's end.

Amazon has signed a 13-year agreement to buy wind power from Pattern Energy's 150-megawatt wind farm in Benton County, Ind. The Fowler Ridge wind farm will be renamed the Amazon Web Services Wind Farm and is expected to begin operations as soon as January 2016.