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Bill Lucia/Washington State StandardThe first comprehensive inventory of the area and volume of western glaciers from Portland State University found 300 have disappeared since the mid-20th century. -
Noah Berger/APA record-low snowpack and summer lightning storms fueled a season that destroyed dozens of homes, killed two men working the fires and pushed firefighting costs past $235 million.
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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%. -
Oregon saw a slight reduction in drought conditions in September thanks to cooler and wetter than normal weather. But drought-alleviating conditions could be sparse in the coming months. -
The analysis projects that federal policy changes will increase annual energy spending in Oregon by $840 per household in 2035 and $1,200 per household in 2040, with a cumulative $9,300 increase from 2026 to 2040 — the highest of any state. -
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. -
Federal cuts and unstable state funding have set back Oregon’s greenhouse gas reduction goals in transportation sector -
The first large site in the continental U.S. for testing technologies that generate electricity from ocean waves is now open after securing a key green-energy approval from the Trump administration. -
In recent years, people who live in the fire-prone landscapes of Northern California and Southern Oregon have had to confront new realities and risks created by changing climate conditions. -
As the Oregon Department of Transportation faces potential staff cuts, some raise concerns about the state’s ability to respond to severe weather and a growing backlog of maintenance projects -
The Northwest needs to generate as much new electricity by 2032 as the state of Oregon currently uses. -
California’s first commercial carbon-storage project is operating even though the state has yet to adopt rules required by law, 19 months after a key deadline. The oil company could collect billions in public incentives, while environmentalists and oil companies argue about how far the rules should go. -
Heat advisories will be in place for most of western Oregon and far Northern California this week, just as wildfire smoke blows in west of the Cascades, the National Weather Service says. -
Scientists have begun to re-deploy ocean monitoring equipment removed from Pacific Northwest waters by the Trump administration in September.
