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Kelly Campbell and Regna Merritt with Portland Physicians for Social

Responsibility recently received the “Visionary Leaders” award from the

national Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) organization. The

Visionary Leaders Award recognizes individuals and organization...

For five years the small Washington state community of Kalama has been

grappling with spectre of having the world's largest methanol refinery sited

at their port. Northwest Innovation Works, a Chinese-backed company, has been

trying with little luck to attain the necessary ...

In October the Audubon Society released a report stating that “Two-thirds

of America’s birds are threatened with extinction from climate change, but

keeping global temperatures down will help up to 76 percent of them." This

follows a previous month's report that North Ameri...

Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity—but they

are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. As these lungs, carbon

sinks and climate moderators of our planet continue to be destroyed it is

critical to reverse the decades of rainforest dep...

The Columbia River Gorge is a land of mountains, high desert plateaus,

rivers, canyons, oak savannas, lush valleys and an amazing diversity of plant

and animal life. And there's a lot going on in the Columbia Gorge

- including some of the most significant environmental camp...

For centuries, three unique pods of orcas have hunted chinook salmon along

the northwestern Pacific coast. Yet wild chinook salmon here are

increasingly scarce. The orcas are going hungry, their numbers dwindling

along with their primary source of food. Extinction looms for...

This year the world watched with alarm as the Amazon Rainforest burned. While

news coverage of those fires has receded as attention shifts to the fires of

impeachment, the Amazon is still burning. For many people around the world it

is hard to fathom rainforests on fire, ye...

THE LONG AND TWISTED TALE OF JORDAN COVE tells the story of what could be

the largest Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) export terminal on the West Coast. This

mammoth facility, proposed for Coos Bay, Oregon, would be fed by a 229 mile

long, 36 wide pipeline transporting fracked ga...

As the fossil fuel industry increases pressure to turn the Pacific Northwest

into a fossil fuel hub, a Thin Green Line stands in its way. Now that

communities across the region have stopped numerous coal and oil projects,

the industry is pushing even harder to build the Wes...

For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of

the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic

champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In

her latest book On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Gree...