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New world disorder: Get ready for dirty toilets, closed facilities and fewer firefighters

Federal layoffs have created chaos for Northwest public lands, and a cascade of damaging environmental consequences appears imminent

Apr 3, 2025
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11 minutes

New bill seeks to dismember protections for endangered species

A push to strip the Endangered Species Act pits survival against economic interests. More than 50 Pacific Northwest species are at risk

Apr 2, 2025
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4 minutes

Oregon just crossed an historic environmental benchmark

In 2013, only 300 electric vehicles were registered in Oregon. Then Gov. John Kitzhaber made a major promise

Mar 19, 2025
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3 minutes

BPA ready to join new Southwest energy market

Critics denounce a BPA draft decision to leave the Western energy market, possibly threatening renewables growth at home

Mar 13, 2025
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7 minutes

Pressure builds on Army Corps to produce reports on Willamette River Basin dams

Critics cite “shocking” delays to address harmful conditions as a new federal study blames the Corps for jeopardizing fish populations 

Feb 26, 2025
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14 minutes

Nothing new: How renewable energy projects perpetuate desecration of tribal lands

These Sacred Hills is a new documentary that chronicles a Yakama band’s opposition to a controversial Columbia Gorge energy proposal

Feb 20, 2025
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9 minutes

Wash. could lose $71 million, Oregon $52 million, in federal move to block EV charger aid

Money for truck charging and hydrogen refueling stations on I-5 also on hold as Trump administration intervenes in funding

Feb 11, 2025
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3 minutes

Remembering John Harrison: Energy authority

For more than three decades, the Washington writer kept the public informed about the driving environmental issue of the times

Feb 10, 2025
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2 minutes
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