Locus Focus

For 18 years communities across Southern Oregon fought an existential

struggle to stop the massive Jordan Cove LNG export terminal that was

proposed for Coos Bay and its accompanying 36 fracked gas pipeline that

would have traversed 230 miles across four counties, crossing...

It’s been a challenging year for Portland and just about every other city

in this country. As we head into a new year, what can be done to make the

city less dysfunctional and a healthier and happier place for everyone to

live.

On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with P...

Human-caused climate change is creating heat waves of increasing intensity,

duration and frequency, that disproportionately affect underserved

communities of color.

On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Portland State University

professor Vivek Shandas, about how re...

In 2014 it was the Columbia River Crossing, a 16-lane bridge carrying

Interstate 5 traffic across the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington.

After 8 years and almost $200 million in studies, planning and acrimonious

debate, the proposed project fell apart. But now it...

A year ago, we let go of 2020 with the hopes for a much better 2021. And 2021

started out promising, for the first five days. Then came the Capitol

Insurrection, the Republican surrender to total Trumpism, record-breaking

weather disasters, disastrous fires and two new surg...

Last June, the long embattled methanol refinery that was proposed for the

Port of Kalama, Washington, was finally defeated. Northwest Innovation Works,

the Chinese-backed company behind this project, originally proposed to build

three of the world's largest methaol refineri...

For the past 17 years, people across Southern Oregon have lived with the

threat of the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal proposed for Coos Bay, and its

companion Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, a 36” pipeline that would have

traversed 230 miles of Southern Oregon. On December...

After the 2020 Labor Day wildfires, the Willamette National Forest planned a

massive logging project along 400 miles of forest roads and several thousand

acres under a loophole called a categorical exclusion. If allowed to proceed,

the agency would have moved forward with l...

The auto industry is promising that high tech-driving will deliver us from

crashes, congestion and carbon emissions. Today the panacea is autonomous

vehicles, but this vision is the latest in a long history of illusory

futuramas that the auto industry has invented to get mo...

This program originally aired on October 18, 2021

The Hanford Reservation is one of the most polluted places in the world. For

over 40 years, the United States produced plutonium there for nuclear

weapons, and released hundreds of billions of gallons of liquid chemical a...