(Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a $1.1 billion verdict against the state for how it manages forests, ruling that the state wasn’t obligated to maximize logging and profits. Linn County sued the state and the Oregon Forestry Department in 2016, accusing the state of[Read More…]

An ambitious plan to reduce green house gas emissions is missing plans to sequester carbon in state agricultural and forest lands. (Malheur Enterprise photo) Advisers to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality say a new climate change program ignored their recommendations and those of the state’s Global Warming Commission, missing an opportunity[Read More…]

More Oregonians will have a chance to borrow for repairing leaking septic systems under a renewed state program. (Wikimedia Commons) The invisible price of a failing home septic system is a foul smell.  The very visible mark is ground softening atop the underground sewage tank resulting in leaks into waterways[Read More…]