Climate Change

When the Almeda Drive Fire burned through communities in Talent and Phoenix, Oregon, many wondered why there wasn’t more emergency evacuation information. The gaps in Jackson County’s alert system left many without critical information. And the same type of system is used across Oregon and California.

Scientists see a clear-cut connection between more extensive droughts and wildfires, but they're also investigating a climate link to the ferocious east winds.

Deadly West Coast wildfires are dividing President Donald Trump and the states’ Democratic leaders over how to prevent blazes from becoming more frequent and destructive

Northwest conservation and anti-pollution organizations say the Trump administration’s changes to a bedrock environmental law from the Nixon era will have major impacts in the region.

Pacific Northwest forests face increased threats from severe wildfires, insects, disease and climate change, according to a new assessment released Wednesday by the U.S. Forest Service. 

A federal commission gave its conditional approval Thursday to Southwest Oregon’s controversial Jordan Cove energy project.

The top Republican in the Oregon Senate, who led his colleagues on three walkouts to protest a plan to fight climate change, won't seek re-election.

As a bill to phase out the pesticide chlorpyrifos fails to make it through the short session, an Oregon Department of Agriculture workgroup will resume consideration of possible limits on its use.

Oregon lawmakers may not get to vote this session on a controversial climate bill, but some companies are gearing up to burn fewer fossil fuels regardless.

At this point in a legislative session, lawmakers would normally be finalizing state budgets and starting to prepare for adjournment. Instead, mornings in the Capitol have a new ritual.