Friday, September 11, 2026

Tag: Oregon

Oregon’s beaver population comes back through Mid-Willamette Beaver Partnership

The animal is a keystone species and "ecosystem engineer" and recent management strategies across the region through a coalition of various conservation groups and tribal entities has promoted coexistence efforts.

Judge halts Trump’s Portland troop plan as governors warn of martial...

Federal judge Karin Immergut blocks National Guard deployments to Oregon and beyond as the White House escalates rhetoric and appeals the ruling.

Trump’s ‘full force’ order meets Oregon’s lawsuit over national guard deployment

Oregon officials say the president’s move is unlawful and dangerous, warning it threatens to escalate tensions in Portland.

Lawsuit challenges Trump’s eligibility for Oregon ballot citing 14th Amendment insurrection...

Non-profit Free Speech for People files legal challenge, arguing Trump violated the 14th amendment and should be barred from the Oregon ballot

Major gas utility is pouring money into reversing an Oregon city’s...

Climate advocates who see this strategy playing out in Eugene are concerned that NW Natural and its affiliates may spend enormous sums to convince the public to overturn the mandate. 

Looks like another ‘bad blue’ just bit the dust

Jamie McLeod-Skinner, as the replacement for Bad Blue Kurt Schrader, would not be beholden to any of the many corporate PACs that supported him.

A historic chance to protect America’s free-flowing rivers

“This legislation will be good news for anyone who likes clean drinking water, fish and wildlife habitat, and public lands recreation. It will protect some of the most scenic rivers we have in Oregon.”

In a contested Oregon primary race, Democrats back candidate taking fossil...

Rather than back a progressive climate champion, a retiring congressman throws his weight behind a candidate who has taken campaign cash from Jordan Cove LNG.

‘It’s a proud day’: Oregon landowners celebrate demise of LNG project,...

A coalition of Oregon landowners, environmental groups, and Native tribes fended off Jordan Cove for more than a decade. But the legal implications of the project’s demise outside of Oregon are unclear.

How Oregon is turning the page on America’s disastrous drug war

“Our immediate focus is to ensure every Oregonian knows these critical harm reduction and recovery services are being invested in and expanded so that they will be available to anyone who wants and needs them, and that they can feel comfortable and safe accessing them.”

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The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
The US Capitol, where Senator Bernie Sanders has convened a bipartisan briefing on AI risk for September 16. Photo: Martin Falbisoner, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger

Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
Satellite imagery of Lake Mead shows the reservoir's shrinking shoreline amid ongoing Southwest drought. Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, via Wikimedia Commons

US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.