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TriMet's 'A Better Red' mission expected to kick off in the fall - Railway Track and Structures

Heat-Related Death Toll Climbs to Nearly 100 in Washington State and Oregon

Nearly 200,000 Oregonians still without power after weekend storm

Courtesy of Portland General Electric Originally published on February 16, 2021 4:45 pm Oregon started Tuesday with nearly a quarter of a million homes and businesses lacking power, and electrical crews battled ongoing failures as downed trees took more customers offline as they repaired a strained grid. By 4:30 p.m., they’d gained ground, bringing the total of outages to roughly 195,000 across the state, with some customers having spent days in the dark and others surprised by fresh failures Tuesday. Though the bulk of power outages were in the Willamette Valley, eastern parts of the state were also affected by the deluge of precipitation. Severe winter weather forced the closure of Interstate 84 westbound lanes along a nearly 90 mile stretch between Baker City and Pendleton Tuesday morning, but by 11 a.m. they had been reopened. Trucks were barred from using the interstate along an additional 70-mile stretch east of Baker City, according to the Oregon Department of Transpo

Florida Department of Health-Manatee County Helps Prevent Spread of COVID-19 and Other Infectious Disease with Purchase of CURIS Disinfection System

Why cap-and-invest? One strategy for carbon reduction

January 20, 2021 Successfully tackling our climate challenge will require a mix of policies that includes investment, emission standards, and more. One important question is: how do we account for the harms of carbon pollution in our economy and hold accountable those responsible for them? Doing this will require grappling with the serious legacy of environmental racism that exists in our society, the result of both intentional and unintentional policies enacted by governments and supported by advocates over the years. This article describes Climate Solutions approach to the Climate Commitment Act , Governor Inslee’s proposed cap-and-invest system, and other systems like it. There are other strong carbon policies under discussion this year, including a carbon fee, that we don’t discuss in this post.