They’re touted as an affordable housing option worth preserving, but they can also be hazardous to their occupants’ health and finances Misty Muñoz’s bathroom had been rotting for four years. That was before radiant heat from the 1,000-degree blaze that c ...
16 Dec 2020 - Chris May
Hungry for jobs and tax revenue, small towns are often targets for dirty industries. How one community fought back — and won. When the Chinese company Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW) showed up in 2014 to pitch their methanol refinery to the Port of Kala ...
16 Dec 2020 - Patricia Kullberg
What should the state do with all the forestland left scarred by recent wildfires? West Coast wildfires burned a historic 5 million acres of land this season, but as the ash settles in Oregon’s forests, the state faces a new challenge: What happens next? ...
18 Nov 2020 - Joe Opaleski
Taking lessons from the original stewards of the Pacific Northwest landscape could help Oregon avoid disastrous wildfire seasons T his past wildfire season was one of the most destructive on record. Over a million acres of Oregon burned, and 40,000 people ...
21 Oct 2020 - B. Toastie
MOVING FORWARD | Voting yes on Portland's parks levy is a first step, but what if we borrowed ideas from around the world and built playgrounds for everyone? I f summer 2020 had a stage, it was Portland’s parks. They were the first places many of us ...
21 Oct 2020 - Henry Latourett...
In recordings obtained by Street Roots, industry leaders say the governor agreed to keep mandated wildfire safety codes for new homes out of legislation Building standards that could make homes safer and more fire-resistant in wildfires are not mandated f ...
21 Oct 2020 - Chris May
The Oregon journalist discusses her new book, ‘As the World Burns,’ about young people’s lawsuit against the federal government For the past five years, 21 young people from across the country have wended their way through the court system as plaintiffs i ...
23 Sep 2020 - Chris May
We continue to break record temperatures and hurtle toward disaster, but there have been some notable victories, too The water that runs through the canals of Venice is clear, clearer than it has been in decades. It apparently just needed a vacation from ...
17 Sep 2020 - Tom Henderson
Is the state poised to abandon Tom McCall’s environmental legacy? Oregon schoolchildren once regularly saw a documentary about the growing climate crisis in their state. “Clean water and clear air are imperatives of life itself,” narrator Richard Ross beg ...
15 Sep 2020 - Tom Henderson
The front group took out a full-page ad in The Oregonian, asking the governor to approve the controversial natural gas terminal in southwestern Oregon A pro-pipeline lobbying group calling itself Western States and Tribal Nations is spreading a message th ...
30 Jun 2020 - B. Toastie