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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In the past year, Oregon’s effort to significantly reduce emissions from the transportation sector by mid-century dropped drastically from a projected 60% to 10%. -
Two years after announcing the first round of grantees, Oregon has yet to build any federally funded electric vehicle fast-charging stations along the state’s most-driven highways. -
The Northwest needs to generate as much new electricity by 2032 as the state of Oregon currently uses. -
A California-based nonprofit will run the effort to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector, while benefiting disadvantaged communities. -
Funding gaps remain the biggest obstacle to helping vulnerable Oregonians survive extreme temperatures. -
The Oregon Solar + Battery rebate program is prepared to issue more than $1 million in rebates to qualifying residents. The program is set to reopen on June 15. -
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.
