Zenith Energy’s fossil fuel storage and transport facility faces criticism for potential environmental dangers, particularly in the event of an earthquake. Portland City Council and a fossil fuel transportation and storage company with a history of violat ...
23 Aug 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
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
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
'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
COMMENTARY | Region's most vulnerable have long suffered consequences of pollution in the Willamette River, and they, too, will be most implicated in Superfund clean-up Hundreds of Portlanders will join the “Big Float” for its eighth year on July 14 ...
13 Jul 2018 - Erin Goodling and Donovan Scribes
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
Michelle Romero wants Oregon to follow California’s lead: Price carbon emissions and put the revenue back into communities most affected by climate change Lawmakers in Salem are considering five different bills with the same goal of significantly reducing ...
9 Mar 2017 - Emily Green
COMMENTARY | Harmful diesel pollution must be addressed by Oregon Legislature Feb. 3 was a day like no other in the fight for clean air in Oregon. On that day, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality announced that an area of Southeast Portland had ...
27 Dec 2016 - Mary Peveto
A conversation with the man who is preaching the gospel of saving the planet, curbing consumerism and ending the diabolical influence of corporate greed Ask almost anyone about Earth’s future and you’re likely to hear a litany of doom and gloom. It’s not ...
2 Jun 2016 - Stephen Quirke
COMMENTARY | The plant is not just the bearer of bad news, but an important neighbor They drink the water from your gutters. They creep into your garden. They whisper tales to the kale. For some, mosses are just a guest we never invited – an opportunity ...
24 Mar 2016 - Stephen Quirke