PENDLETON — The new director of the Oregon Department of Education and deputy superintendent of Public Instruction on Dec. 12 visited two innovative early childhood education facilities in Pendleton.
Portland, Oregon is aiming to halt the expansion of any infrastructure designed to transport or store fossil fuels in the city or its surrounding waterways, even while proposals to move crude through the region are growing. The city council unanimously approved a measure last week to curb the transportation of fossil fuels in the area, but […]
To the rest of the world, the United States Pacific Northwest and Canada s British Columbia represent one of the supposedly most eco-friendly regions in North America, if not the globe.
And yet on climate change, the biggest environmental challenge of this generation, the governments of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia not only over-promised what they would do to stem the tide. They actually underperformed compared to all the other states and provinces in the two countries, according to a new analysis by InvestigateWest.
More than a decade ago, the three governments set some of North America s first mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And if any place on earth can show the world how to confront the climate crisis, it should be this region, also known as Cascadia after the mountain chain shared by the two countries. Cascadia s abundant hydropower provides a head start toward living without fossil fuels, and the majority of voters in British Columbia, Washingto