Bill seeks to protect residential customers from data center power costs
The POWER Act would have the Oregon Public Utility Commission ensure that infrastructure costs for high power-use data centers are not passed on to other customers.
Alex Baumhardt – Oregon Capital Chronicle
Federal judges side with Oregon in striking down Trump tariffs
The attorneys general argued in the case that Trump was misusing a 1977 law and falsely claiming an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States to justify the tariffs.
Kotek, natural resources adviser put water atop list of environmental priorities
They say the state needs better water management, secure wildfire funding and policies that address the high energy needs of data centers.
New report scrutinizes lobbyists working for NW Natural gas and for public health, climate groups
Watchdog groups are calling for the state to require more transparency from lobbyists who work for fossil fuel companies as well as governments and environmental groups fighting against climate change.
Oregon lags most states in public higher education funding, report finds
The Oregon Legislature continues to spend far less on higher education than other states, according to a new report, leading to some of the highest costs of attendance among universities in the West.
Curbing severe wildfire in Oregon depends on urgency, scale, of controlled burns by state and feds
Jesse Jackson stands proudly, flute in hand, on several hundred acres of forest near Roseburg that the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians fought to get back from the federal government in 2016 after more than 160 years of private and federal management and decades of heavy logging.
Oregon needs more money to fight big wildfires. Who should pay for it?
The Oregon Department of Forestry needs more and consistent funding to fight wildfires. That much was clear following the 2020 Labor Day fires that burned nearly 850,000 acres of forests and became the state’s most expensive disaster in history. But lawmakers…