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Six pups were born this year to Oregon’s White River wolf pack. A video of

the two-to-three-month-old wolf pups howling back and forth with their

parents was captured on a trail camera by the Confederated Tribes of Warm

Springs, whose reservation is within the pack’s home t...

Neighbors in the Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood have been trying to save a

little piece of wooded property adjacent to the Wilhelm Memorial near SE

Bybee and 14th. For many decades this property, formerly Portland Memorial,

was a cornerstone of the neighborhood. Perched on ...

Have you wondered how Zenith Energy got a foothold in Portland to expand a

moribund asphalt terminal into the largest tar sands export terminal on the

West Coast? An investigative report, to be released on July 15, 2019, by the

Center for a Sustainable Economy, reveals that...

On June 29, in 11th hour fashion, the Oregon Legislature approved a bill (HB

2209) with bipartisan support to better prepare Oregon to respond to oil

spills from high-hazard trains that carry millions of gallons of crude oil

through the state. HB 2209 will require railroads...

For nearly five years the community of Kalama has been fighting the world's

largest methanol refinery proposed for the Port of Kalama. Until recently the

community felt isolated and invisible as they struggled to stop this massive

project, proposed by a Chinese-backed compa...

OPAL Enviromental Justice Oregon has a new campaign to stop fare hikes and

win expansion of fareless, decriminalized public transportation. This

campaign no longer accepts that transportation must be a private, for-profit

system that excludes and criminalizes our communitie...

The environmental movement needs art. And that's where Signal Fire comes.

Signal Fire is an environmental justice and arts nonprofit based in Portland,

OR. They connect artists and activists with our remaining wild places to

build dynamic and responsive networks of land ste...

This program originally aired on May 20, 2019

President Donald Trump delivered his budget roadmap with a promise to balance

the budget in 15 years, and once again, the Environmental Protection Agency

found itself in the Trump administration’s crosshairs, with the White Hous...

Juliana v. United States, a lawsuit brought by young plaintiffs between the

ages of 11 and 23, asserts that the U.S. government, through its affirmative

actions in creating a national energy system that causes climate change, is

depriving them of their constitutional rights...

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about

climate change in his groundbreaking book The End of Nature, which was the

first book to alert us to global warming. In his latest book FALTER: Has the

Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? McKibben wa...