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NEW BEDFORD — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in its final years of cleaning up one of the nation's largest Superfund sites, the New Bedford Harbor, say agency officials.  The EPA held a public meeting Wednesday evening with about 25 members of the public and local government in virtual attendance. Last year, the agency finished underwater dredging, completed shoreline remediation of certain zones, closed cleaning facilities, and planted salt marshes. This year, the agency will continue shoreline remediation and salt marsh planting along the Upper Harbor on both the New...

At least 16 environmental groups have signed a letter to Oregon legislators in support of a call by the Oregon State Building Trades Council and affiliates to require developers benefiting from state tax subsidies to meet labor and workforce standards. It started when members of Climate Jobs PDX, a project of Portland Jobs with Justice, read in the Labor Press that most recent renewable energy projects in Northeastern Oregon have been built by nonunion, out-of-state firms with nonunion crews from outside Oregon—despite receiving generous tax breaks from the state. As of 2019, about a dozen ...