Alex Baumhardt
Oregon Capital ChronicleAlex Baumhardt is a JPR content partner from the Oregon Capital Chronicle. Before that Alex was a national radio producer focusing on education for American Public Media. She has reported from the Arctic to the Antarctic for national and international media, and from Minnesota and Oregon for The Washington Post.
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The latest lawsuit is part of nearly 20-year fight to protect the red tree vole that has lost 65% of its Oregon Coast old-growth habitat to logging and wildfire. -
The $8 trillion wholesale product distribution industry is challenging a four-year-old Oregon recycling law weeks after the law took effect. -
National research laboratories in Oregon, Washington and Colorado focused on addressing climate change and its impacts and improving energy efficiency and affordability would be gutted under proposed Republican budgets. -
The Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Region headquarters would be closed and the Pacific Northwest Research Station would be moved to Fort Collins, Colorado. -
A proposal to require utilities cover federal income taxes on settlements paid to powerline-ignited wildfire survivors died and a federal law providing relief is set to expire. -
Environmentalists recently filed a petition to get Oregon voters to guarantee a healthy climate in the state constitution. -
The “doors are open” on a new state office charged with meeting Gov. Tina Kotek’s goal of getting 36,000 new homes built in Oregon each year. -
As the clock ran out for adjournment Friday night, Democrats faced a high-profile loss after failing to pass a dramatically watered-down transportation funding package. -
Desperate for money to get through the next two wildfire seasons and with few proposals on the table that could meet costs and get passed by the Oregon Legislature, Gov. Tina Kotek is proposing to skim some money off of the state’s “rainy day fund.” -
Gov. Tina Kotek has signaled her support for potentially using some of the kicker or other one-time funding to invest in wildfire work across the state. -
Oregon’s lone Republican Congressman, Cliff Bentz, represents more than 705,000 Oregonians — about 16% of the state’s population — who are likely to feel disproportionately the cuts in the Republican tax and spending bill currently being considered by the U.S. Senate and that passed the U.S. House in May. -
The latest package from Oregon Democrats would raise revenue for electric vehicles, buses, mass transit and bridges through higher taxes and fees on cars, gas and payrolls.
