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| 11/02/2005 | |
| (OPB News) - Opponents of exploring for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge demonstrated Wednesday outside Senator Gordon Smith's office in Portland. | |
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DEQ funding scandalous
- The Oregonian
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10/03/2005 |
| In Michael Milstein's Sept. 28 article, "DEQ cuts may leave us wheezing," Rep. Susan Morgan, R-Myrtle Creek, implies that the Department of Environmental Quality will have to sacrifice [other functions] to adopt California auto-emissions standards. | |
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American Needs a Strong Endangered Species Act!
- The Oregonian
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08/18/2005 |
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Sun to set on pollution tax credit
- The Register-Guard (new window)
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07/29/2007 |
| SALEM - It paid $21 million to a private utility for storing the utility's radioactive waste. It has discounted the cost of woodchippers for hundreds of yardwork professionals and do-it-yourselfers. In its 40 years on Oregon's law books, the pollution control tax credit has cost the treasury, and saved corporations and individuals, $730 million - largely for following the law. And on Dec. 31, it's going away. | |
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Grapes of Trash: How Oregon regulators favored a rogue dump operator over a landmark winery
- Willamette Week (new window)
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07/18/2007 |
| Fifteen miles from downtown Portland, Ponzi Vineyards sits on the banks of the Tualatin River. Established in 1970, Ponzi was one of Oregon's first wineries and is a standard bearer for a regional industry that has earned worldwide acclaim and brings hundreds of millions of wine-tourism dollars to Oregon annually. Right next to Ponzi's original 12-acre vineyard of pinot noir, pinot gris, chardonnay and riesling grapes is an unlined dump that last year gobbled up about 180 million pounds of trash. | |
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Session's green legislation praised
- The Register-Guard (new window)
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06/22/2007 |
| SALEM - The Senate's overwhelming approval Thursday of a package of incentives to increase the production and use of biofuels marked a clean sweep of accomplishments on environmental and energy policy. The 24-3 vote all but capped a legislative session that has seen the passage of bills to expand recycling, increase production of green power, and restrict the potential development of farm and forest land. | |
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Session agenda gets greener
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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05/27/2007 |
| From the high-profile rewrite of the nation's first bottle-deposit law to more below-the-radar efforts to increase the budget for agencies that track pollution, many lawmakers say this is the most important environmental legislative session for Oregon in decades. Environmentalists credit the new Democratic leadership at the Capitol for an eco-friendly agenda. But Republicans -- who are increasingly supporting previously spurned green issues -- say this session's proposals strike a balance between conservation and economics. | |
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Environmental policy gains cred in Capitol as agenda expands
- The Oregonian (new window)
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05/27/2007 |
| SALEM, Ore. (AP) — From the high-profile rewrite of the nation's first bottle deposit law to more below-the-radar efforts to increase the budget for agencies that track pollution, many lawmakers say this is the most important environmental legislative session for Oregon in decades. | |
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