Environmental Activism

Multnomah County’s Office of Sustainability avoided deep cuts. A commissioner had proposed eliminating 4 out of 5 positions in the office to fund other programs. The office will see funding reductions equating to 1.5 full-time positions.

Environmental groups are asking a court to reverse a permit for a proposed renewable diesel refinery in Columbia County, over concerns it could pollute the Columbia River and disrupt working farms.

Environmental activists held a rally outside the Forest Service office to push for stronger protections for old-growth ecosystems in the amendments.

An energy company wants to transfer fuel from trains to trucks in Eugene’s Trainsong neighborhood, but some community members there are concerned about the risk of an environmental disaster.

A conservation group is helping people see a different perspective of the Snake River dams in southeastern Washington.

Joseph Dibee, former international fugitive and supporter of the Earth Liberation and the Animal Liberation Fronts, got a shorter sentence than his co-defendants, raising questions about how the federal government prosecutes what it considers acts of domestic terrorism

Join us for a conversation July 29 with Marketplace's Molly Wood and West Coast reporters.

The plot to burn down a Redmond slaughterhouse in 1997 sheds a light on our evolving conceptions of terrorism, including political views of last summer's Portland protests.

The plort to burn down a Redmond slaughterhouse in 1997 sheds a light on our evolving conceptions of terrorism, including political views of last summer's Portland protests.

Environmentalists teamed with Native Americans, ranchers and even windsurfers to block nearly every effort over the past decade to export fossil fuels from the West Coast.