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A group of Ashland neighbors have been meeting since 2019 to discuss how their everyday habits and choices help reduce climate-warming emissions. Five years in, others are starting to take notice.
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously ordered the case dismissed in 2020, saying that the job of determining the nation’s climate policies should fall to politicians, not judges.
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The move is one piece of California’s mission to cut emissions and targets the largest source of air pollution in the state, which comes from vehicles.
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The Oregon Department of Energy's Oregon Rental Home Heat Pump program will provide rebates to landlords to install cooling units to their rental properties.
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Intrepid KUOW reporter John Ryan takes a road trip through Washington, Oregon and Idaho in a rented Chevy Bolt to see how feasible it is to venture outside the Northwest's cities with an all-electric vehicle.
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Truck manufacturers won’t file legal challenges over California’s controversial mandate, and in return, the state air board will relax some smog-fighting requirements.
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Climate activists and some lawmakers want two of California’s pension funds to shed about $15 billion of fossil fuel holdings. They say the move would reduce oil and gas companies’ political power, but opponents say it would be a bad move financially.
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The Climate Resilience Package could bring in $1 billion in federal funds over the next few years for climate action across the state.
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House Republicans have held up a vote on a package full of climate bills, claiming a substantive word was changed too late in the process.
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Ashland will develop a new ordinance banning the use of fossil fuels in new home construction. A local youth environmental group has been pressuring the council to do this for months.
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The standoff between lawmakers in Salem could potentially sink dozens of bills and lose out on tens of millions of dollars that would help the state reduce greenhouse gas emissions and put it on track to meet its climate goals.
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A look inside the factory that assembles Ford’s F-150 electric pickup. As the industry invests $40 billion in new US electric car plants, the rapid transformation raises labor and supply chain issues. Automaker says “we’re all-in.”
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Oregon fell short in meeting its 2020 climate benchmarks by 13% and will also miss its 2021 reduction target by 19%, according to preliminary data.
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Up to 60% of 2030 models and two-thirds of 2032 models sold nationwide would be zero-emissions — less aggressive than California’s mandate.