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Home » Environment » Decarbonizing Cascadia » Can Oregon Democrats learn from B.C.’s conservative-backed carbon tax? After two years of defeat in Salem, carbon pricing still lacks support from business and rural interests. This report is contributed by Jefferson Public Radio, a partner in Getting to Zero, InvestigateWest’s yearlong reporting initiative. In 2019 and again in 2020, Oregon Republicans walked out of the state Legislature to prevent a vote on   cap and trade  climate bills. The legislation was meant to drive down the state’s carbon emissions, but Republicans feared the...

Letters to the editor for Friday, April 30: NIMBYs and YIMBYs, gun control and Cece's plight Register-Guard 1KF’s manufactured fight for justice  I appreciated Kimberly O’Brien’s letter (Letters, April 24) calling for the Timber Unity organization to be accurately characterized as the “political influencing, lobbying and money-raising organization that it is.” Timber Unity has no truck for “unity” around credible, evidence-based climate science.  We should also accurately characterize 1000 Friends of Oregon (“1KF”) as the political influencing, lobbying ...

Replanting and rebuilding efforts in the wake of last year's wildfire in the McKenzie River Valley got another helping hand Sunday in the form of cash and seedling donations. Timber Unity, a natural resources industries activism organization, donated 2,700 seedlings of various species and $7,000 on Sunday to fund a mobile tool library for those rebuilding after the Holiday Farm Fire. Timber Unity has made many such donations across the state since the fires, including funding the creation a tool lending library in Blue River. The Holiday Farm Fire burned 173,000 acres of the McKenzie Rive...

By Brian Cameron, for the Tillamook County Pioneer When the term ‘divisiveness’ gets brought up these days it’s hard not to immediately segue into current affairs. Indeed, there is a lot to be said, by everyone. It’s true that it can be easier to respond to opposing views with a quippy meme on social media, but when it comes down to opening up the narrative it’s best to get it straight from the source. Recently I had an opportunity to do just that with a chance to hear from our local party officials. Tillamook Republican Chairman Mike Sears was kind enough to offer a virtual sit-do...

collaboration. In October 2019, New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland led a House subcommittee hearing on the effects of anti-government extremism on federal land management officials. The Government Accountability Office had recently documented more than 350 incidents of threats and assaults targeting land management employees between 2013 and 2017. As the watchdog group noted, even that data did not capture the full picture, in part because not all incidents are reported. Some officials told investigators they “consider receiving threats a normal part of their job.” Advertisement Haaland, then i...