Environment

It ends a decade-long fight led by 11 young Oregonians and 10 peers across the nation against the U.S. government over climate inaction.

A hearing for SJR 28 was packed with kids, seniors asking legislators to advance a constitutional amendment enshrining climate rights.

Environmentalists recently filed a petition to get Oregon voters to guarantee a healthy climate in the state constitution.

A panel of three judges recently ordered the case dismissed, but lawmakers and advocates say the case deserves a trial.

Oregon lags behind other Western states in environmental protection, and Oregon Democratic leaders are doing little to make it better.

To help counter their greenhouse gas pollution, Microsoft and other companies invested millions in a project to store more carbon in Southern Oregon trees. The 2021 Bootleg Fire upended that plan.

Several key environmental bills to help protect communities against the effect of climate change have passed the Oregon Legislature.

A proposal from several Democrats and environmentalists would mandate the state pension fund divest billions in fossil fuel holdings.

Wildfires loom, groundwater is disappearing and Oregon’s response to human-caused climate change hinges on a tight race for governor.

Democrat Tina Kotek stands behind strong regulations her party passed in recent years. Republican Christine Drazan and unaffiliated candidate Betsy Johnson are promising to roll some back.

There's a disconnect between policies designed to encourage clean energy and data center tax breaks that set no such requirements.

For Chuck O’Neal, a lifelong outdoorsman and environmentalist, the moment of truth came on election night 2020, as results rolled in from perhaps the most partisan campaign season in American history. He wasn’t watching Trump or Biden. O’Neal had spent the past two years running a campaign in Orange County, Florida, based on an unorthodox […]

Oregon's rules for helicopters spraying weed killers do more for fish than people. Streams with fish get a 60-foot buffer from aerial sprays. Residential properties get none.

To the rest of the world, the United States’ Pacific Northwest and Canada’s British Columbia represent one of the supposedly most eco-friendly regions in North America, if not the globe. Yet on climate change, the governments of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia not only over-promised what they would do to stem the tide but actually underperformed all the other states and provinces.

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Some bills were substantive. Some were symbolic. And some, like the high-profile climate bill, were spurned.

Oregon regulators have weakened a proposed pollution permit for seafood processors, eliminating limits on temperature, ammonia, chlorine and bacteria.