"Oregon Passes Measure To Better Prepare For Oil Spills"
"Oregon will tighten safety standards for railroads transporting large amounts of crude oil."
Source: AP, 07/01/2019
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"Oregon Senate Republicans Leave The State To Avoid Climate Bill Vote"
"Oregon Republican senators have left the Capitol and scattered in various directions outside the state in order to avoid being rounded up by troopers for a high-profile climate bill vote scheduled today [Thursday]."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 06/21/2019
Recovery Begins On Agent Orange Barrels In Wallowa Lake
"After a 10-month wait, preliminary work began Thursday on the delicate task of removing barrels sitting in Wallowa Lake marked as containing defoliants used in Agent Orange."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 06/14/2019
Closure of Civilian Conservation Centers Ignites Controversy
A decades-old environmental jobs program that provided work for thousands of disadvantaged young people across more than a dozen states has been hit with one of the largest federal downsizings in a decade. Find out how the closing of some Civilian Conservation Centers may be a story near you, from the latest TipSheet.
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"Grazing Permits Blocked For Ranchers In Oregon Land Dispute"
"A federal judge has blocked the grazing permits issued to father and son ranchers who were the focus of a battle about public land."
Source: AP, 06/06/2019
"Oregon Votes To Ban Restaurants From Offering Plastic Straws"
"Oregon will ban restaurants from automatically offering single-use plastic straws under a measure passed by lawmakers, making it the second state to enact restrictions on plastic straws."
Source: AP, 05/31/2019
Is Your Local Landfill Leaking Methane?
It’s a good case for the global-local nexus: The potent greenhouse gas methane may be leaking from your local landfill. And this week’s TipSheet explains the latest news developments in this long-standing controversy, as well as policy disputes over capturing the gas. Plus, get story ideas and questions to ask for your local reporting.
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"Cooke Aquaculture Pays $332,000 Over Escaped Atlantic Salmon"
"A salmon-farming company with net pens in Rich Passage has agreed to pay $332,000 in fines after one of its floating pens collapsed in 2017, releasing a quarter-million nonnative Atlantic salmon into Puget Sound near Cypress Island, about 10 miles southwest of Bellingham."
Source: Kitsap Sun/AP, 05/01/2019
Pod Of Orcas Starving To Death. Tribe Has A Radical Plan To Feed Them
"The Lummi Nation is dropping live salmon into the sea in a last-ditch rescue effort: ‘We don’t have much time’"
Source: Guardian, 04/26/2019
"Washington State Passes 100 Percent Clean Electricity Legislation"
"The Washington State Legislature passed Senate Bill 5116 on Monday – a bill that will eliminate coal power by 2025 and transition the state to 100 percent clean and renewable electricity by 2045."
Source: KIRO, 04/24/2019
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