Two Republicans who rejected ballot initiatives to tighten state forestry laws have taken more than $50,000 from timber interests.

One of the ballot measures backed by the environmental groups would have established a 500-foot aerial spraying buffer on all waters in the state. Timber companies worried that would be an ...

The environmental groups hope the potential for ballot initiatives will pressure the legislature to pass some version of a carbon cap during its short session early in 2020. “The Clean Energy Jobs ...

Environmental groups filed three ballot measures earlier this year to tighten aerial herbicide spraying rules, increase forest stream buffers, prohibit logging in steep, landslide-prone areas, and ...

Oregon has had targets for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions since 2007, but has had difficulty complying. The state is not expected to meet its 2020 goal of reducing emissions to 10% below ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Environmental Center’s Rethink Waste Project has been awarded the highly competitive Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine Materials Management grant for its Reuse Bend initiative ...

A coalition of health and environmental groups hopes to take three clean-energy measures to Oregon voters in November 2020. The “100% Ready for Clean Air" coalition says it filed the measures ...

Lawmakers have proposed additional measures, Senate Bills 543 and 544, that also focus on making Oregon a more sustainable state. “SB 543 would phase out expanded polystyrene foodware, packing ...

Around 100 public transit and environmental advocates descended on the Oregon State Capitol on Thursday to urge lawmakers to allocate more funding for public transit and other climate-friendly ...

Given Oregon’s green reputation, it’s jarring to see how badly the state ranks on measures of injustice in exposure to air pollution. Environmental engineering professor Julian Marshall and colleagues ...

Oregon’s signature climate policy is one step closer to being reinstated after it was invalidated last year. The Climate Protection Program, first created through an executive order by former ...

A July 29 letter from the EPA to the Oregon Health Authority, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Oregon Department of Agriculture praised the state for some of the measures it ...