By Mike Seely PORTLAND, Ore. — The final meeting of the year for the Pacific Islander Club at Roosevelt High School was mostly celebratory, with candy leis for the departing seniors and a spread of fried chicken. But the club was talking climate change, and for many students in North Portland, Ore., the subject hit close to home. Akash Sharma, …
Michael Bloomberg to plunge $500M into clean energy effort – 6/7/2019
By Julie Pace WASHINGTON — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is plunging $500 million into an effort to close all of the nation’s remaining coal plants by 2030 and put the United States on track toward a 100% clean energy economy. The billionaire Bloomberg’s investment in the Beyond Carbon initiative marks the largest ever philanthropic effort to combat …
Oregon is poised to set a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. That’s a huge deal. – 6/5/2019
By David Roberts The Pacific Northwest is becoming a veritable hotbed of climate policy. Just months after Washington state passed a comprehensive package of climate bills, its neighbor Oregon is on the verge of passing a fateful bill of its own, one that would have repercussions far beyond the region. The Clean Energy Jobs Bill (HB 2020A) was voted through by the Oregon …
Government argues for halt to youth climate lawsuit, saying there is no constitutional right to a stable climate – 6/4/2019
By Brady Dennis A group of young Americans who have spent nearly four years trying to compel the federal government to take action on climate change found themselves back in court Tuesday, arguing that their unprecedented lawsuit should move forward. And the Trump administration, like the Obama administration before it, was there to argue once again that the lawsuit should …
The Climate Kids Are All Right – 4/21/2019
By Chris D’Angelo It didn’t take long for the death threats to start. Alexandria Villaseñor, a 13-year-old environmental activist, had just been featured in an Agence France-Presse article republished by Breitbart News about dozens of students staging a “die-in” at United Nations headquarters in New York. Villaseñor was protesting that day in mid-March for the same reason that she decided …
It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth Warmest Year on Record – 2/6/2019
By JOHN SCHWARTZ and NADJA POPOVICH NASA scientists announced Wednesday that the Earth’s average surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth highest in nearly 140 years of record-keeping and a continuation of an unmistakable warming trend. The data means that the five warmest years in recorded history have been the last five, and that 18 of the 19 warmest years …
Portland, Oregon passes a Tax to Fund Clean Energy Initiatives – 1/30/2019
By Katelyn Newman IN A ROBIN HOOD-ESQUE attempt, residents of Oregon‘s biggest city will tax their largest corporations to fund clean energy projects that they believe will help some of the most vulnerable populations become more adaptable to climate change and help the city to meet its clean energy goals. In November, Portland voters passed a first-of-its-kind ballot measure that will impose a 1 …
Want Proof Climate Change Is Here? Look At Oregon In 2018, Report Says – 2/1/2019
By David Steves Climate change is playing out in significant ways in Oregon, with evidence in the form of more severe wildfires, lower summer stream flows and diminishing winter snowpacks, according to the state’s fourth annual climate assessment report. The report, issued Thursday by the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, made it clear that climate change is no longer something to discuss …
Editorial: Legislators must work for all Oregon -1/22/2019
By Mike McInally “A proposal for a carbon tax seems to be a good bet to pass this session. But what accommodations can legislators make to ease the potentially outsized impact the measure might have on rural areas?” Read full article here.
Gov. Kate Brown sworn in, says it’s time to put Oregon on a ‘better path forward’ -1/16/2019
By Hillary Borrud SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown hit on many familiar themes Monday during her second inaugural address, touching on the state’s robust economy and the need to shore up schools. She noted that her swearing in marked “my final four years as governor,” since she cannot run again in 2022. Brown was first elected to lead the …
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