Oregonians' consumer decisions are adding up, but we can change that The Oregon Global Warming Commission this month adopted a draft report that shows how climate change is already drastically transforming Oregon’s ecosystems and weather patterns. Fr ...
26 Oct 2018 - SR editorial board
Oregon Global Warming Commission warns climate change is impacting state while consumption-based emissions continue to rise Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions from transportation are accelerating, and so are emissions released, within the state and elsewhe ...
26 Oct 2018 - Emily Green
Demonstrators demand the Army Corps of Engineers remove dams to restore salmon for Puget Sound killer whales Braving the rain and cold, 80 people marched with 20-foot banners to lay flowers, cedar and ferns in honor of recently deceased orcas. They had a ...
12 Oct 2018 - Stephen Quirke
County governments receive substantially less revenue from private timber companies after a string of changes, Coast Range Association points out Chuck Willer is on a one-man mission, sporadically traveling across Western Oregon to give his PowerPoint pre ...
7 Sep 2018 - Emily Green
Oregon could become the first 'normal' state to implement the program economy-wide, paving the way for the rest of the nation As Oregon lawmakers prepare for this year’s legislative session, a bicameral and bipartisan committee has been hashing ...
31 Aug 2018 - Emily Green
'Waste pickers' can fill gaps in municipal waste management, Taylor Cass Talbott explains It was while working with the homeless population in her hometown of Portland that Taylor Cass Talbott started the collaborative series of art exhibits and ...
17 Aug 2018 - Helen Hill
Should Oregonians be concerned about privatized water? Since NW Natural announced its expansion into the water utility sector this past December, the company has begun buying small water companies in Oregon, Idaho and Washington through a holding company ...
10 Aug 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