Sustainability

The Port of Portland has heavily touted the sustainability and local wood sourcing behind its newly renovated, $2 billion terminal. But a closer look illustrates both lofty ambitions — and a sustainable timber industry that may not exist.

When it comes to reducing consumer impact on the climate, reuse is orders of magnitude more effective than recycling. Two businesses are showing the way by way of refillable and reusable beer and wine glass bottles.

Internal emails show a tax-funded agency created to educate people about forestry has acted as a public-relations agency and lobbying arm for Oregon's timber industry, in some cases skirting legal constraints that forbid it from doing so.

A study of sea otter restoration in British Columbia is giving encouragement to a group that wants to bring sea otters back to the Oregon Coast.

Wall Street investment funds took control of Oregon’s private forests. Now, wealthy timber corporations reap the benefits of tax cuts that have cost rural counties billions.

Oregon Republican representatives walked away from the Capitol a day after GOP state senators took the same step.

GOP state senators could flee the Capitol next week to block a climate bill. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has been trying to keep them in the building. 

A conservation group is pushing the federal government to investigate a proposed methanol plant in Kalama, Washington.

Oregon will begin processing Charge Ahead rebate applications from lower income Oregonian drivers who purchase an electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles.

American's coffee obsession relies on just one part of the coffee plant: the seed. More often than not, the edible fruit surrounding the pit is thrown away. A Bend cafe has found new uses for all that food waste.