Monica Samayoa
Oregon Public BroadcastingMonica Samayoa is a reporter with OPB’s Science & Environment unit. Before OPB, Monica was an on-call general assignment reporter at KQED in San Francisco. She also helped produce The California Report and KQED Newsroom. In 2017 she studied abroad in Sydney, Australia, where she attended University of Technology Sydney to finish her degree. There, she was able to get her first taste in radio while producing and hosting for 2SER, Sydney Educational Radio.
Monica holds a bachelor's degree in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts from San Francisco State University.
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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality will decrease how much qualified buyers can receive through its popular electric vehicle rebate programs to stretch funding. -
Oregon has more than 120 data centers, and is among a handful of states that are creating laws to protect ratepayers from higher electric bills as more come online. -
Recent studies show that data centers are creating uncertainty for the Pacific Northwest’s power grid, potentially creating massive gaps in energy leading to blackouts. -
Fossil fuel companies, farms, unions and business groups are taking the state Department of Environmental Quality to court over a program they call “economically infeasible.” -
Oregon’s 35-day short legislative session left little for climate and environmental advocates to celebrate when it wrapped up earlier this month. Instead, they say, support for climate action, both state and federal, has dwindled. -
By “crowd-sourcing” electricity from solar panels and home batteries, the virtual power plant approach can get communities through extreme weather events. -
House Bill 4080 would create a blueprint for balcony solar in Oregon, at a time when people are already installing these systems. -
The committee will deliver a report to the governor no later than October. -
Medium and heavy-duty truck owners in Oregon looking to go electric can now apply for a state rebate to help lower those costs. -
Qualified Oregonians can now apply for help paying energy bills this winter, but it could take at least another month before they receive the federal funds. -
Oregon’s EV footprint has been steadily increasing, with more than 126,000 registered electric vehicles in the state as of August. But public charging ports have struggled to keep up. -
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality will suspend its “charge ahead” rebate for electric vehicle purchases next month. The rebate helps low- to moderate-income households purchase new or used EVs.
