A giant Oregon wildfire shows the limits of carbon offsets in fighting climate change
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.
Oregon governor’s race will dictate the state’s direction on battling clima
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.
Does Nature Have Rights? A Burgeoning Legal Movement Says Rivers, Forests a
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 […]
In Oregon, helicopters spray weed killers near people under West Coast's we
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.
Broken promises: Cascadia region not on track to cut carbon emissions - OPB
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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