Tag ENVIRONMENT
Oregon senators kill proposal to make fossil fuels industry pay for climate-change driven disasters
Senate Bill 1187 would have made companies responsible for millions of metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution pay into a “climate superfund."
EPA withholds $85 million meant to fund environmental justice projects in Oregon
Ten Oregon projects are among more than 470 environmental efforts across the country stuck in limbo, with recipients denied access to millions in funding.
State updates hazardous substances list to include harmful forever chemicals, begins rulemaking
Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality will soon regulate the pollution and any cleanup of six PFAS compounds known to be harmful to human health.
Hundreds support pausing Oregon’s investment in private fossil fuel holdings but Treasury opposed
Nearly 300 people submitted testimony in support of the Pause Act to stop new Treasury investments in private fossil fuel funds.
Oregon, nine other states hit 2013 goal of getting 3.3 million electric vehicles on roads by 2025
Oregon and nine other states recently fulfilled a 2013 agreement to collectively register 3.3 million new electric vehicles in an effort to reduce pollution and combat climate change.
Advocates, scientists ask lawmakers for $1 million to stop toxic algal blooms on Willamette River
Lawmakers will consider a proposal to fund a years-in-the-making plan to carve a channel through Ross Island on the Willamette River.
Federal hiring freeze, firings hindering Oregon endangered owl monitoring, protection
Regional monitoring for endangered owls, salmon and frogs is done by seasonal biologists who aren’t being hired now under a federal freeze, potentially delaying timber and wildfire logging projects.
Bill would pause new PERS investments in private fossil fuel funds for five years
Two Democratic state senators and the advocacy group Divest Oregon are backing a bill to curb fossil fuel investments in the state’s public pension system.
Rising heat, dry land pose wildfire risk for Salem area, climate experts say
Experts predict that climate change will drastically reduce the amount of snow Oregon gets in the coming decades, limiting how much water is stored for use in Salem and throughout the state.