David Steves
Oregon Public Broadcasting-
A federal judge has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to rewrite its pollution cleanup plans for Oregon rivers.
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A court order will require the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to start issuing water pollution permits for older ones that have expired, known as "zombie permits."
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Four West Coast senators are calling on the Trump administration to declare a salmon fishery emergency and provide aid to economically struggling coastal communities.
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A controversial high-voltage transmission line running from East Multnomah County to Southwest Washington has been canceled.
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The Washington Supreme Court has ruled that two proposed oil and gas terminal projects in Grays Harbor cannot go forward without further environmental review.
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A federal judge in Eugene has ordered a pair of Oregon timber companies not to log on a state forest near the south coast.
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People who eat fish from Washington state waters will be protected by a combination of new federal and state pollution rules.
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The government and a conservation group both are offering reward money for help find whoever killed a federally protected gray wolf in South-Central Oregon.
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A county planning commission has given its approval to a rail expansion in the same stretch of the Columbia River Gorge where a Union Pacific oil train derailed and burst into flames.
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Southeast Portland air near a manufacturing plant run by Precision Castparts is polluted with unhealthy levels of the heavy metals nickel, hexavalent chromium and arsenic, according to the latest batch of air monitoring data.
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Washington environmental regulators will soon find out if their new water-quality rule is good enough for the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The State of Oregon has come up with a value for a forest in Southern Oregon that it wants to sell.