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Earth Day: Oregon leads the way
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2010-04-22 |
| As Oregonians celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day today, it's worth noting the many steps forward we've taken over the last 40 years to protect our air, water and open spaces. Be it cutting emissions from cars and trucks, cleaning up the water pollution of our lakes and rivers, or powering more of our economy with clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, we've done a lot for our environment over the last four decades. | |
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Schrader, Blumenauer, Wu, Wyden, Merkley all score 100% environmental ratings for 2009
- BlueOregon.com (new window)
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2009-12-31 |
| Environment America has released its latest scorecard - and five of the seven members of Oregon's congressional delegation earned perfect 100% ratings and were called "environmental champions": Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Congressmen Kurt Schrader, Earl Blumenauer, and David Wu. | |
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Green group gives top score to Oregon's senators, three congressmen
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-12-30 |
| Five of Oregon's seven members of Congress received perfect scores in Environment America's latest "scorecard" of green votes since April 2008. Oregon's two senators -- Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden -- and three of the state's congressmen -- Earl Blumenauer of Portland, Kurt Schrader of Canby and David Wu of Portland -- voted in favor of the environment when present on all the votes Environment America used for its scorecard, released today. | |
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Oregon attorney general beefs up environmental enforcement team
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-11-17 |
| Oregon Attorney General John Kroger announced two leaders of his environmental enforcement effort today, adding a former Clackamas County prosecutor and an attorney who represented Oregon environmental groups for 11 years. | |
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Earth Day IV: Obama's first 92 days
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-04-23 |
| For every new president the preliminary measure of success is the famous "First 100 Days." Maybe this year it's time to set a new benchmark. Perhaps President Obama should be the first American president to be assessed against the "First 92 Days" measuring stick as of April 22, Earth Day. | |
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Sun to set on pollution tax credit
- The Register-Guard (new window)
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2007-07-29 |
| SALEM - It paid $21 million to a private utility for storing the utility's radioactive waste. It has discounted the cost of woodchippers for hundreds of yardwork professionals and do-it-yourselfers. In its 40 years on Oregon's law books, the pollution control tax credit has cost the treasury, and saved corporations and individuals, $730 million - largely for following the law. And on Dec. 31, it's going away. | |
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Grapes of Trash: How Oregon regulators favored a rogue dump operator over a landmark winery
- Willamette Week (new window)
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2007-07-18 |
| Fifteen miles from downtown Portland, Ponzi Vineyards sits on the banks of the Tualatin River. Established in 1970, Ponzi was one of Oregon's first wineries and is a standard bearer for a regional industry that has earned worldwide acclaim and brings hundreds of millions of wine-tourism dollars to Oregon annually. Right next to Ponzi's original 12-acre vineyard of pinot noir, pinot gris, chardonnay and riesling grapes is an unlined dump that last year gobbled up about 180 million pounds of trash. | |
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Session's green legislation praised
- The Register-Guard (new window)
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2007-06-22 |
| SALEM - The Senate's overwhelming approval Thursday of a package of incentives to increase the production and use of biofuels marked a clean sweep of accomplishments on environmental and energy policy. The 24-3 vote all but capped a legislative session that has seen the passage of bills to expand recycling, increase production of green power, and restrict the potential development of farm and forest land. | |
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Session agenda gets greener
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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2007-05-27 |
| From the high-profile rewrite of the nation's first bottle-deposit law to more below-the-radar efforts to increase the budget for agencies that track pollution, many lawmakers say this is the most important environmental legislative session for Oregon in decades. Environmentalists credit the new Democratic leadership at the Capitol for an eco-friendly agenda. But Republicans -- who are increasingly supporting previously spurned green issues -- say this session's proposals strike a balance between conservation and economics. | |
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Environmental policy gains cred in Capitol as agenda expands
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2007-05-27 |
| SALEM, Ore. (AP) — From the high-profile rewrite of the nation's first bottle deposit law to more below-the-radar efforts to increase the budget for agencies that track pollution, many lawmakers say this is the most important environmental legislative session for Oregon in decades. | |
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| 2005-11-02 | |
| (OPB News) - Opponents of exploring for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge demonstrated Wednesday outside Senator Gordon Smith's office in Portland. | |
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DEQ funding scandalous
- The Oregonian
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2005-10-03 |
| In Michael Milstein's Sept. 28 article, "DEQ cuts may leave us wheezing," Rep. Susan Morgan, R-Myrtle Creek, implies that the Department of Environmental Quality will have to sacrifice [other functions] to adopt California auto-emissions standards. | |
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America Needs a Strong Endangered Species Act!
- The Oregonian
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2005-08-18 |
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