Merkley, Blumenauer will be among speakers at the Sunrise Movement PDX event, aimed at bringing the community together around climate action Since launching in March, Sunrise Movement PDX has grown to more than 300 members and is gearing up for its first ...
31 May 2019 - Emily Green
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
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
Even as climate change action grows increasingly urgent, the Columbia River corridor is poised to host more fossil fuel than ever Climate change advocacy is experiencing an unprecedented level of urgency nationwide, but on the lower Columbia River, critic ...
22 Mar 2019 - Stephen Quirke
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
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
Portland filmmaker Lindsey Grayzel talks about making her documentary, 'The Reluctant Radical' On Feb. 4, four people used bolt cutters and a cell phone to shut down two tar sands pipelines in Itasca County, Minnesota. In a signed statement rel ...
15 Feb 2019 - Stephen Quirke
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
We don’t need to focus on every little solution; just a few that work, says energy policy expert Hal Harvey We should listen to Hal Harvey. Unless you’re a climate-policy buff, you’ve probably never heard of him, but he’s been effectively chipping away at ...
28 Dec 2018 - Emily Green