"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
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"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
Is Your Favorite River Endangered? Check the List.
The latest release of the annual endangered rivers list provides boatloads of environmental reporting angles, including climate change-related threats like flooding and drought. This week’s TipSheet has the backstory and the new top-10 list, plus 10 suggested starting points for stories and a half-dozen key reporting resources.
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Styrofoam Container Bans May Be Trending
The first state ban on styrofoam food containers makes this a good time to see how things stand with styrofoam in your area, as the controversial plastic draws negative attention for overflowing landfills, causing litter and polluting waters. More, plus story ideas and reporting resources, in this week’s TipSheet.
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Crude Shipments Quietly Increased In Oregon, With Regulators In the Dark
"If oil is moving through Oregon, it’s Michael Zollitsch’s job to know about it. He oversees the state’s emergency responses to oil spills and other environmental disasters."
Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting, 04/09/2019
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