We talked to five teenagers at the forefront of Portland’s climate movement Youths around the world walked out of school on Friday, Sept. 20, demanding that their governments take bold and appropriate action to address the climate crisis. An estimated 4 m ...
27 Sep 2019 - Eric Elmore
Thousands of students rally in the city to demand action on the global climate crisis Their message was loud and clear: The future of our planet requires action now. Thousands of students rallied in downtown Portland on Friday, Sept. 20, demanding that po ...
22 Sep 2019 - Eric Elmore
They all belong to Extinction Rebellion PDX, but to each of them, the fight for environmental justice is personal I am not an activist. I am not extreme. I am not radical. I am not one of “those” people. I am middle-of-the-road, logical, realistic. I am j ...
13 Sep 2019 - Eric Elmore
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
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
Oregon's senior U.S. senator calls for a tax overhaul to support the Green New Deal Oregon’s senior U.S. senator, Ron Wyden, says he intends to use his position as the ranking Democrat of the Senate’s finance and energy committees to push forward the ...
22 Feb 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
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
Leonard Higgins faces up to 10 years for his role in the nation’s biggest takeover of fossil fuel infrastructure On Nov. 20, 350Montana.org hosted a mock trial of “Valve Turner” Leonard Higgins at the University of Montana in Missoula. One of the witnesse ...
8 Dec 2017 - Thacher Schmid
COMMENTARY | A proposed ballot measure would fund local and equitable investments in renewable energy and efficiency by imposing a tax on large corporations In the coming weeks, a diverse coalition of grassroots organizations will put forward a unique bal ...
27 Oct 2017 - Stephen Quirke
Sen. Alan Olsen joins the legislature’s advisory council on climate change Oregon’s Democratic Senate president appointed a climate change denier, Sen. Alan Olsen (R-Canby), to the Oregon Global Warming Commission last week. The commission was formed a de ...
31 Aug 2017 - Emily Green