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In Oregon, few environmental policies are as universally recognized as the state’s pioneering Bottle Bill. For over 50 years, this landmark legislation has allowed residents to return cans and bottles ...
Trump has withdrawn the U.S. government from an agreement to restore native fish being decimated by hydroelectric dams in the ...
President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew from a 2023 agreement between the federal government, Columbia Basin tribes, environmental groups and the states of Washington and Oregon that sought to ...
A 39-page amendment added to the bill Friday neutralizes the power it would have brought to state agencies to enforce pollution regulations, groups said Groups that helped champion one of Gov. Tina ...
Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a bill into law that bans thicker, reusable plastic bags at grocery store checkouts, restaurants ...
Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin introduced Senate Bill 726 in response to ongoing concerns about methane releases at the Coffin Butte ...
A man is in custody following an early morning fire at church in the Brooklyn neighborhood, according to Portland Fire & Rescue. A 44-year-old man pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree ...
Oregon is getting ready to launch a massive new environmental restoration fund that will funnel money for conservation projects to communities and tribes harmed by pollution and to state agencies ...
Now, Gov. Tina Kotek and the newly established Oregon Environmental Restoration Council will begin planning, investing and distributing that settlement money – $698 million – over the course of 50 ...
Courtesy of Daimler Trucks North America Oregon environmental advocates say losing this waiver could set back the progress the state has made to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.
The most recent National Parks Service director, Chuck Sams, will help lead local conservation work as a co-chair of the Oregon Environmental Restoration Fund, Gov. Tina Kotek’s office announced ...