Climate Change

It's been 60 years since Oregon last saw such sweeping power outages.

New research says the Columbia River Basin is expected to see up to a 60% increase in flooding due to climate change.

The Detroit automaker's push into electric vehicles has gone into overdrive this year.

A long goodbye to natural gas furnaces and water heating — and possibly other gas appliances — could begin with action by the Washington Legislature.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has told a global virtual summit that the world has to take decisive action to build resilience to the devastating effects of climate change and pledged that President Joe Biden's new administration would play its role.

Many of Donald Trump’s actions on endangered species, energy, hazardous chemicals and more are on hold as President Joe Biden takes office.

As Americans stayed home during the pandemic, cars and planes produced less heat-trapping emissions. But the effect is only temporary.

To the rest of the world, the United States’ Pacific Northwest and Canada’s British Columbia represent one of the supposedly most eco-friendly regions in North America, if not the globe. Yet on climate change, the governments of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia not only over-promised what they would do to stem the tide but actually underperformed all the other states and provinces.

Temperatures are going up. Wildfires are happening more often. Sea levels are rising. Climate change has entered the chat in Oregon.

In late November, a judge tossed an effort by Oregon's largest industry groups to kill the plan to steeply reduce greenhouse gas emissions.