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Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission has decided to add a group of whales that forage along the Oregon Coast to the state’s endangered species list.

Lawmakers have offered varying proposals to boost funding for wildfire.

Federal scientists say there is a high likelihood of extinction for 13 Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead runs without immediate attention.

The Northwest hub, which includes Oregon, Montana and Washington, is slated to be home to eight “nodes,” where hydrogen is produced, each with “downstream…

They said the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub could spur up to 70,000 regional jobs and grow education, apprenticeship programs in Oregon, Montana and Washington.

Parties to a lawsuit challenging the federal government over its plans to continue operating dams on the Snake River at the expense of salmon runs asked a federal court in Oregon for more time to negotiate with one another.

An Oregon Capital Chronicle environmental series garnered top mention in this year’s Society of Environmental Journalists’ contest. 

The Society of Environmental Journalists is pleased to announce the Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, Small winners of the 2023 SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Read the stories and hear from the first-place winner.

An updated inventory shows the area has more than 50 ice patches that no longer qualify as glaciers while several have disappeared entirely.

Oregon officials agreed to the plan after their counterparts in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming declined to help Colorado over concerns that a growing wolf population could migrate to their states.