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Robin Loznak/Courtesy of Our Children’s TrustThe decision ends a decade-long fight led by 11 young Oregonians and 10 of their peers across the nation against the U.S. government over climate inaction. -
Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPBOregon and California are among a group of states that recently achieved a collective goal of shifting new car buyers toward electric rather than gas-powered vehicles in an effort to reduce pollution and combat climate change.
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Oregon environmental regulators could once again delay implementation of medium-to-heavy duty clean truck rules — giving the commercial trucking industry more time for the technology and infrastructure to develop across the state. -
State environmental officials say Oregon once again has access to hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding aimed at climate action. That’s after the federal government froze the funds in January. -
California and other states and counties are using a legal strategy that took down Big Tobacco, hoping to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage they have long denied. But many obstacles remain. -
A youth climate advocacy group in Ashland is celebrating their victory in pushing the city to enact a fee to discourage the installation of natural gas appliances in new homes. -
Denying Oregon these investments “would blow essentially a $200 million dollar hole in our budget,” says an environmental nonprofit leader. -
About a quarter — 25.3% — of all new cars registered in California in 2024 were electric cars, compared with 25% in 2023. The flat sales follow several years of rapid growth, and sales are still far below the state’s 35% target. -
Less than a year ago, Oregon’s former state treasurer pledged to make the state employee pension fund net zero carbon by 2050. Now, the new state treasurer is seeking legislation to continue that work through careful investments. -
The president’s order has no immediate effect on offshore wind leases already authorized, including two large areas off California’s coast. But it sends a current of uncertainty through the fledgling renewable energy industry, which relies on federal and state support. -
The tiny town of Scotia, California on the state’s remote Redwood Coast was built up entirely around a large sawmill. An attached biomass plant that burns the wood waste for electricity stands in the middle of a climate debate in the region. -
Because Trump is unlikely to approve them, California officials say they had no choice but to abandon the state's groundbreaking rules for zero-emission trucks and cleaner locomotives. -
The Seventh Oregon Climate Assessment from state and federal scientists and researchers evaluates the what the future could look like based on increasingly precise forecasts. -
One of the world’s largest commercial truck manufacturers is refusing to sell its diesel big rigs in Oregon, even though its North America headquarters is in Portland.
