On August 27 the City of Portland put the brakes on Zenith
Energy's oil-by-rail storage and transfer facility in NW Portland
by denying a Land Use Compatibility Statement (LUCS) for the facility.
After relentless pressure from Portland residents, community organizations,
a...
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This week is the first anniversary of Oregon's Big Burn. A year later the
impacts of the wild fires that raged across Western Oregon on Labor Day last
year are still very much with us. But the gravest impact of all is the U.S.
Forest Service and the Oregon Department of Tra...
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This program originally aired on June 21, 2021.
There have been several new developments since the original broadcast of this
show, but the biggest news is that on Friday, August 27, Portland City
Council denied Zenith's Land Use Compatibility Statement, blocking Zenith'...
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This program was originally broadcast on July 19, 2021
Back in March we talked with Suzanne Fouty, a hydrologist who worked for
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in eastern Oregon as a water resource and
soils specialist. One of her specialties is beaver and at that time s...
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Now that we’re in the midst of another mega fire season, we’re still
feeling the impacts of last year’s unprecedented season of fire intensity,
the like of which we have rarely seen. How do we cope with this new reality
of climate chaos-induced wild fires and have we learne...
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As the infamous Heat Dome peaked over Portland on June 28, Vivek Shandas, a
professor at Portland State University, drove around the city using a thermal
camera to measure the temperature in neighborhoods from the Pearl District to
Gresham. He found that the hottest spot wa...
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On July 27, Governor Kate Brown signed Oregon's 100 percent clean energy
bill into law. This law requires Oregon energy companies to provide their
customers with 100 percent clean electricity by 2040, an ambitious deadline
matched only by the state of New York. This comes ...
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Four hydropower dams, built between 1962 and 1975, have transformed the
lower Snake River into slack water reservoirs, deadly to salmon and the 137
other species that are critical to the salmon food chain. After decades of
debate and legal challenges over the need to remove...
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A couple months ago we talked with Suzanne Fouty, a hydrologist who worked
for Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in eastern Oregon as a water resource and
soils specialist. One of her specialties is beaver and at that time she was
working with a group trying to get legislatio...
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This program first aired on April 19, 2021
For nearly two decades communities across the Pacific Northwest have been
fighting off multiple efforts to turn the region into a fossil fuel export
hub. Today we’ll look back at the successes of what Eric de Place with
Sightli...
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