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  1. Diane Megaw

    Oregon Adopts New Crab Fishery Rules After Whale Entanglements Raise Alarm

    Oregon has adopted new measures aimed at reducing deadly whale entanglements in the state’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery.

  2. Diane Megaw

    Oregon Ash Trees Face Growing Threat as Emerald Ash Borer Reaches New Willamette Valley Sites

    The highly destructive emerald ash borer (EAB) was found in three new communities across the northern Willamette Valley this month, and officials warn these can quickly…

  3. Lucille McNamara

    Bipartisan Backlash Stops Dismantling of Oregon Coast Scientific Monitoring Instruments

    The Trump administration’s latest attempt to cut funding to a climate-related program – dismantling 900 scientific weather monitoring instruments off the Pacific…

  4. Diane Megaw

    Klamath River Dam Removal Was Not an Instant Cure as Fish Parasite Threatens Young Salmon

    Monitoring of the Klamath River continues after elevated levels of a potentially dangerous fish parasite were detected. The Karuk Tribe confirmed that the river still…

  5. Lucille McNamara

    NSF Starts Removing Oregon Coast Research Buoys After Trump Cuts Ocean Monitoring Funding

    With scientists scheduled to start dismantling the first research buoy of a sprawling ocean monitoring system off the Oregon coast today, state Senator Jeff Merkley is…

  6. Diane Megaw

    Deadly Longview Tank Implosion Sends Chemical Leak Into Columbia River Along Oregon-Washington Border

    Following a chemical tank implosion at the Nippon Dynawave Facility in Washington on Tuesday morning, officials confirmed that chemicals had leaked into the Columbia…

  7. Lucille McNamara

    Oregon Water Providers Get More Time to Remove Forever Chemicals From Drinking Water

    Oregon water utilities will be given two additional years, until 2031, to meet Biden-era limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water.

  8. Lucille McNamara

    Oregon Lithium Drilling Plan Near Nevada Border Faces Lawsuit Over Water and Wildlife Risks

    Environmentalists are fighting a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decision to allow an Australian lithium mining company to build 168 drill sites, 21.5 miles of new…

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