Locus Focus

The wildfires in Northern and Southern California this month are a grisly

foreshadowing of a world in the fiery grip of climate chaos. It is apparent -

unless you're a climate denier - that climate change is upon us and that fire

seasons without end are a stark indication o...

After much anxiety, social justice and climate activists were

mostly heartened by the mid-term election results. Now, what are the next

steps we must take to ensure that a progressive agenda moves forward in

Oregon and across the country?

On this episode of Locus Focus we ...

Recently the Portland Business Alliance endorsed the massive Jordan Cove LNG

export terminal proposed for Coos Bay. But this is not the first time this

influential business organization, which claims a membership of 1,900, has

advocated for positions that put our communitie...

The Portland Clean Energy Initiative (Measure 26-201) is an innovative

Portland ballot measure that will create $30 million in funding for local

clean energy projects, including but not limited to rooftop solar, energy

efficiency housing upgrades, and community gardens. The...

This program was initially broadcast on October 1, 2018.

On November 6 Washington State voters will have a chance to vote on an

initiative that would put a fee on the state’s largest polluters,

including the oil industry and utilities that have not switched over to clean...

Before a plethora of proposals for coal and oil terminals starting popping up

in the Pacific Northwest a few years ago, there was Liquid Natural Gas, or

LNG. Intense public opposition to coal and oil terminals and trains prevented

virtually all of them from being built. But...

Northwest Innovation Works LLC (NWIW) is proposing to build the world's

largest methanol refinery in the small SW Washington town of Kalama. NWIW

aims to use tax breaks, grants, and other forms of financial assistance to

build and operate its refinery. In August, Columbia R...

A few months ago a new wolf pack was discovered in the Mt. Hood National

Forest. This is Western Oregon's first wolf pack since wolves were

extirpated across the state six decades ago. Meanwhile wolf celebrity OR7 has

fathered his fifth litter in SW Oregon. But across the r...

On November 6 Washington State voters will have a chance to vote on an

initiative that would put a fee on the state’s largest polluters,

including the oil industry and utilities that have not switched over to clean

energy. These fees will be used to protect that state's cle...

Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented

hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly

clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising

seas are transforming the coastline of the United Sta...