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Killing Salmon to Lose Money

The Willamette River Basin once supported tremendous salmon runs. Today, less than 10,000 wild Chinook salmon return each year to the Upper Willamette River basin, approximately a 97% reduction of the historic estimates. And one of the main culprits for the threatened extinction of Willamette River salmon and steelhead are a network of thirteen dams built and operated by the ....

Kathleen George , Willamette River Basin , Upper Willamette River , Willamette River , Locus Focus , Confederated Tribes , Grand Ronde , Community Radio ,

Zenith's Planned Expansion Brings New Threats

After promising to ditch crude oil, documents show that Zenith Energy intends to expand its Portland, OR, terminal while continuing to handle fossil fuels. The amount of liquid fuels passing through the terminal is projected to increase more than 2.5 times above 2022 levels and more than 5.5 times above 2019 numbers the year Zenith assured DEQ it would not increase throughput.  ....

Mary Stites , Kate Murphy , Zenith Energy , Nw Environmental Defense Center , Locus Focus , Columbia Riverkeeper Senior Organizer Kate Murphy , Community Radio ,

Tree Sitting in the Poor Windy Timber Sale

On April 1, forest defenders launched a tree sit to stop old growth logging on federal Bureau of Land Management land in Southern Oregon. They are opposing the Poor Windy timber sale, which targets thousands of acres of mature and old growth forest. The timber sale is just one of countless projects the BLM has proposed across the region that will clearcut mature and old growth ....

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Adventures Along the Hydrogen Rainbow

We need to decarbonize as swiftly as possible and the most direct path is through electrification. We can make most of the electricity we need through proven green technologies like solar, wind and geothermal, yet the fossil fuel industry is hyping hydrogen as its preferred low-carbon replacement for powering vehicles, heavy industry and heating buildings. ....

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