House Bill 2488 would codify environmental justice principles, but lawmakers are already limiting its scope Lisa Arkin is the executive director at Beyond Toxics. The Eugene-based nonprofit centers and uplifts voices that are most affected by pollution an ...
21 Apr 2021 - Lisa Arkin
MOVING FORWARD | It might be up to you to see that we have a choice W hile teleworking is here to stay for more Americans than ever, most workers — and especially those with lower incomes — will still be required to physically go to their place of work. A ...
3 Mar 2021 - Henry Latourett...
We need an infrastructure that works, and we can’t ignore climate change An unprecedented cold wave in Texas recently left several million households without power for days on end, as temperatures dropped well below freezing. Dozens of people died from hy ...
3 Mar 2021 - Gordon Walker
The Coast Range Association embraces the Green New Deal with a proposal for carbon sequestration T his week, the Coast Range Association is delivering a forest carbon sequestration proposal to key climate leaders in Congress and the Oregon Congressional d ...
13 Jan 2021 - Chuck Willer
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
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...
COMMENTARY | When supporters speak to the threat to 'our way of life,' they are invoking the white supremacist history of Oregon The sun came out on a recent Thursday in Salem. For many of the attendees at the Timber Unity rally against cap-and- ...
21 Feb 2020 - Kaisa Schlarb
COMMENTARY | As the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, America’s military must be reined in Climate change is happening, highlighted by dramatically shifting weather patterns and ever more deadly storms, floods, droughts and wildfires. And the e ...
14 Feb 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Portland is incapable of handling today’s homeless crisis; just imagine the future Cities, counties and states need a public planning process, including stakeholders, to mitigate the coming mass migration crisis. This is a challenge of chara ...
9 Aug 2019 - Dan Newth
COMMENTARY | With naysayers undermining the environment, it’s critical that this measure is carried out as intended In the months since voters resoundingly passed the Portland Clean Energy Fund, the impacts and urgency of the climate crisis have only grow ...
12 Jul 2019 - E.D. Mondainé and Adriana Voss-Andreae