Courtney Sherwood
Courtney Sherwood is editor of OPB's climate and environment reporting team.
She began contributing to OPB special projects, filling in as a radio editor, and contributing to the digital team starting in 2012, and served as managing editor for digital content from 2022 through January 2024.
Courtney spent a number of years specializing in data journalism, with a focus on business, banking and health care reporting. Her byline has appeared on the front page of the New York Times, as well as on stories for Reuters, Vice, Science magazine, the Seattle Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Portland Business Journal. She previously served as the business and features editor for The Columbian and editor-in-chief for The Lund Report.
She is a past recipient of a Wharton Business Journalists Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Grinnell College.
Latest Stories
Environment, climate policies mostly took a backseat during Oregon’s 2024 short session
Much of Oregon's 2024 short session was focused on housing regulations and drug criminalization, putting many of the state's lands and climate policies on the backburner.
Pacific Power seeks 17% Oregon rate hike
The electric company says it’s trying to raise $304 million to pay for renewable power sources and invest in upgrades to the grid, and also to pay for costs associated with wildfires. If approved, the rate increased would go into effect in 2025.
Study outlines high cost of meeting Oregon’s substance abuse and mental health treatment needs
Oregon Health Authority staff say a look at behavioral health treatment across the state will help it map out solutions.
Thousands of Oregonians remain without power, with ice storm forecast Tuesday
Tens of thousands of Oregon homes and businesses were still without electricity Tuesday morning, as the National Weather Service warned of more challenging conditions to come. Many schools have canceled Tuesday classes. Portland warned that its sewer system is strained. At least four deaths may be linked to the weather.
Cold weather, power failures continue in aftermath of Oregon storm
More than 150,000 homes and businesses across Oregon were without electricity on Sunday in the aftermath of a weather system that brought high winds and below-freezing temperatures to much of the state. At least four people may have died of weather-related causes.
Northwest temperatures begin to climb after days of extreme cold
Oregonians woke to ice-coated cars and streets Saturday morning, and a promise of improving conditions as temperatures began to climb after days of abnormal cold.
Extreme Northwest weather blows in, posing threat to lives, traffic, powerlines
Forecasters say Portland could see the coldest temperatures in many years and Eastern and Central Oregon could experience wind chills of 25 degrees below zero. Major utilities Thursday morning reported thousands of homes and businesses without power, mostly in the Portland area.
Climate change is already displacing people in Oregon. A UN report warns of more to come
Thousands of Oregonians have already been displaced by climate change, which is reshaping landscapes and livelihoods around the globe, according to an Oregon State University associate professor who joined almost 300 researchers to create an assessment released this week by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
From homes in the Northwest, Ukrainian-Americans watch Russia’s invasion with anger and anxiety
For Pacific Northwest residents with ties to Ukraine, this week’s headlines have been more than alarming. Russia’s full-scale attack of previously unoccupied Ukrainian territory by air, land and sea is an attack on their ancestral homeland and, for many people, a threat to friends and family members as well.
More snow, snarled roads forecast for Northwest into Tuesday morning
More snow is heading to the Pacific Northwest, prompting winter weather advisories from the National Weather Service, and putting road crews on high alert in mountain ranges, the Willamette Valley and along the Oregon coast.