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Central Oregon canal to be covered with solar panels

Project touted as proof that Oregon is “driving creative solutions to build sustainable infrastructure”

Apr 17, 2024
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3 minutes

Oil trains in the Gorge: Are we ready for a spill?

Toxic cargo rumbles through the National Scenic Area every day, worrying officials and alarming critics

Mar 14, 2024
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20 minutes

UK company wants to turn Pac NW trees into international energy source

A massive biomass project proposal in Longview by the Drax Group is raising concerns about forests' ability to power the world

Feb 15, 2024
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10 minutes

Pac NW added to national plan for utility-scale solar power

Conservation and hunting groups worry that solar facilities on public lands will disrupt wildlife corridors

Jan 23, 2024
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3 minutes

Two planned nuclear power projects in Pac NW are scrapped

In 2020, Oregon company NuScale won $1.35 billion in federal funds. It lost $58.3 million in three months last year

Jan 11, 2024
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7 minutes

Pipeline ruling was controversial within federal agency that approved it

Commissioner of the Federal Regulatory Commission criticized methods used in OK’ing GTN Xpress natural gas pipeline project

Oct 31, 2023
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4 minutes

Spent naval nuclear reactor compartments: Part of Hanford’s complicated issues

Retired reactors from Navy subs are also going to nuclear waste sites on top of Idaho’s Snake River Aquifer

Jul 20, 2023
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10 minutes

We stink at recycling batteries. A new law aims to change that

Washington powers up country’s biggest battery recycling initiative. But onus to improve is on producers not users

May 16, 2023
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5 minutes
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