Her advice for young activists is to remain skeptical and to relish the small victories Carol Van Strum, 78, still lives in the forest she fought to protect. She moved with her family to Five Rivers in Oregon’s Siuslaw National Forest in the 1970s, and s ...
6 Dec 2019 - Emily Green
Oregon has had a moratorium on nuclear energy facilities for 40 years, but legislators are considering whether to explore the potential in small modular reactors to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals Tucked into a bill calling for additional data collect ...
7 Jun 2019 - Emily Green
Lawmakers are considering weakening wetlands protections to encourage development of much-needed affordable housing A bill moving through the Oregon Legislature aimed at easing housing construction in some rural areas is at odds with regulations set under ...
22 Apr 2019 - Emily Green
Mark Gamba has reshaped his city’s politics. Now, he’s challenging Kurt Schrader in Oregon’s Fifth District. Milwaukie has gone through a radical transformation in recent years. This once blue collar, conservative-leaning Southeast suburb of Portland has ...
19 Apr 2019 - Emily Green
The Oregon congressman has higher hopes for the Save America’s Pollinators Act this time around Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) announced plans to reintroduce the Save America’s Pollinators Act this morning during a press conference at Northeast Po ...
21 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
A new book by Portland historian James V. Hillegas Elting illuminates the Willamette’s legacy of pollution and abatement Formulating a plan to clean up the Portland Harbor Superfund site is only the most recent chapter in the Willamette River’s sullied pa ...
8 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
Fears that the West Virginian senator will derail climate change policy mount, but Wyden's office says he's promoting green energy in other ways Update: On Tuesday, Dec. 11, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) was named the top Democrat on the Senate ener ...
5 Dec 2018 - Emily Green
The president of the United Farm Workers of America has won union contracts with large growers, but conditions for laborers must improve or we won’t have any more agricultural workers, he warns Since Cesar Chavez’s passing in 1993, Arturo Rodriguez has be ...
3 Aug 2018 - Emily Green
While farmworker advocates say new rules don't go far enough, growers say they're too restrictive After nearly two years of factious debate between Oregon’s agriculture sector and farmworker advocates, the state’s Occupational Safety and Health ...
2 Jul 2018 - Emily Green
Oregon Wild hopes results will be a wake-up call for lawmakers on public policy Results of a cross-sectional survey conducted across Oregon in early May reveal the majority of both Republicans and Democrats within the state agree on several pertinent envi ...
22 Jun 2018 - Emily Green