House Bill 2488 would codify environmental justice principles, but lawmakers are already limiting its scope Lisa Arkin is the executive director at Beyond Toxics. The Eugene-based nonprofit centers and uplifts voices that are most affected by pollution an ...
21 Apr 2021 - Lisa Arkin
COMMENTARY | When supporters speak to the threat to 'our way of life,' they are invoking the white supremacist history of Oregon The sun came out on a recent Thursday in Salem. For many of the attendees at the Timber Unity rally against cap-and- ...
21 Feb 2020 - Kaisa Schlarb
COMMENTARY | With naysayers undermining the environment, it’s critical that this measure is carried out as intended In the months since voters resoundingly passed the Portland Clean Energy Fund, the impacts and urgency of the climate crisis have only grow ...
12 Jul 2019 - E.D. Mondainé and Adriana Voss-Andreae
COMMENTARY | The scale of Extinction Rebellion’s latest protests has forced climate activism into the mainstream conversation Extinction Rebellion burst onto everybody’s screens with disruptions and mass arrests around the world. Radical disruptions in p ...
3 May 2019 - Alexander Hensby
COMMENTARY | Portland Business Alliance members should reject the endorsement of this pipeline On Feb. 19, the Portland Business Alliance submitted a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission stating that its 1,900 members joined together in supp ...
9 Mar 2018 - Rick Rappaport