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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In a recent letter, Kotek asked Biden to protect “Oregon’s Grand Canyon” and a stretch of the Owyhee River in the southeast of the state. -
The Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act rules were approved by the Environmental Quality Commission to reduce waste from packaging. -
The increased costs to schools for the Public Employee Retirement System in the next two years will more than wipe out the governor’s proposed increases in school funding. -
Hoyle said she would continue to work on bipartisan legislation that protects reproductive health, the environment and Oregon industries. -
The Oregon Department of State Lands signed an agreement Thursday with the company Anew Climate to put the first state forest in the West into a carbon market. -
Oregonians are invited to collaborate with state officials over the next year on a plan for developing offshore wind energy in the state. -
The judge ruled that the Jewell School District failed to make the case that the Oregon Department of Forestry was violating a funding law by reducing logging. -
The decision, which officials said would fight climate change, makes Oregon the second state after Michigan to dedicate an entire state forest to storing harmful emissions while selling carbon credits for revenue. -
Republicans are backing a proposal to scale back environmental regulations to “thin” forests while Democrats and environmentalists want to fund community preparedness. -
A dozen projects slated to be built in the next five years could encourage more renewable energy development and lower costs, according to a report. -
Results from the latest statewide assessment tests show student proficiency in reading, writing, math and science are still far below pre-pandemic levels. -
A partial list from the Oregon Department of Forestry shows it has collected $86,000 of $24 million it paid to fight several dozen wildfires that were maliciously or negligently ignited over the last two decades.
