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DEQ excludes much of Oregon’s marine waters from protected waterway listings

Scientists urge regulators to address marine health, sound alarm about acidification S teven Rumrill watches mass deaths take place deep under the surface of the ocean. Last summer, he watched hundreds of crabs struggle to reach a part of the ocean where ...

17 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel
OPINION | Demining in Bosnia and Herzegovina needs continued investment

With added threat of climate change and natural disasters action is needed to demine the region Once known as the land which hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics — and historically renowned for its beautiful terrain, clear emerald lakes and diverse multi-ethni ...

23 Dec 2021 - Arian Berberović
Oregon pushes to limit diesel emissions, but currently lacks infrastructure

Gov. Kate Brown called for reduction of diesel emissions in an ambitious climate order, but experts and advocates remain skeptical the state has the infrastructure to get it done A state agency is moving forward with regulations to reduce the environment ...

11 Aug 2021 - Jake Thomas
With cap-and-trade off the table, here’s how Oregon lawmakers are tackling climate change

Legislators are taking a sector-by-sector approach this session, but is it enough? O ver three decades after the Oregon Legislature set its first target to address global warming, the state has failed to put a dent in its greenhouse gas emissions. Creepin ...

21 Apr 2021 - Chris May
Opinion | Texas blackouts show why energy should be a universal right

We need an infrastructure that works, and we can’t ignore climate change An unprecedented cold wave in Texas recently left several million households without power for days on end, as temperatures dropped well below freezing. Dozens of people died from hy ...

3 Mar 2021 - Gordon Walker
Opinion | Get Wall Street out of Oregon’s forests

The Coast Range Association embraces the Green New Deal with a proposal for carbon sequestration T his week, the Coast Range Association is delivering a forest carbon sequestration proposal to key climate leaders in Congress and the Oregon Congressional d ...

13 Jan 2021 - Chuck Willer
Lee van der Voo on the landmark legal fight against climate change

The Oregon journalist discusses her new book, ‘As the World Burns,’ about young people’s lawsuit against the federal government For the past five years, 21 young people from across the country have wended their way through the court system as plaintiffs i ...

23 Sep 2020 - Chris May
Opinion | How the climate emergency exacerbates homelessness

In 2007, a flash flood ripped through Kathryn McKelvey’s home in a rural Oregon town, leaving her family homeless. As fires now consume the West, her story shows how the climate crisis is throwing families into poverty and homelessness. The increasing inf ...

21 Sep 2020 - Kathryn McKelvey
Climate 2020: The good, the bad and the OMG

We continue to break record temperatures and hurtle toward disaster, but there have been some notable victories, too The water that runs through the canals of Venice is clear, clearer than it has been in decades. It apparently just needed a vacation from ...

17 Sep 2020 - Tom Henderson
Paradise lost? Oregon faces a natural — and political — climate crisis

Is the state poised to abandon Tom McCall’s environmental legacy? Oregon schoolchildren once regularly saw a documentary about the growing climate crisis in their state. “Clean water and clear air are imperatives of life itself,” narrator Richard Ross beg ...

15 Sep 2020 - Tom Henderson