A free, online workshop for forest landowners is being held Thursday, Feb. 17 at 6 p.m. Registration for Underwood Conservation District’s Win…
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I challenge “Not so hot” of July 21. Here are the demonstrable facts.
Few have forgotten the anguish of stunted crops and terror of devastating forest fires last year because of the meager snowpack that yielded paltry irrigation water and tinder-dry soils. The snowpack was far below normal last year, not for lack of precipitation (which was normal), but because of how unusually warm it was. Much more of the mountain precipitation fell as rain rather than snow.
To the editor: Recent letters in these pages have presented passionate back-and-forth regarding climate change. Passionate debate is healthy for our democracy. Climate change is not. Oregonians have the opportunity to support reasoned action in HB 1574, the Healthy Climate Bill. This sensible legislation is before the Oregon legislature in this short legislative session, and creates a practical and doable path to achieving the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions goals established by the State in 2007.
This last week Sen. Merkley announced that he is sponsoring a bill to fully fund fire fighting. He is concerned about the fires in the west but hasn't he heard that we are $18 trillion in debt and going up?
Crosstalk: Global warming: Real or a power grab?
Hood River became the second city in Oregon to adopt a resolution calling on the Oregon Legislature to enact laws creating a price on carbon as a means to stem global warming.
A few weeks ago we reported on progress in developing cellulosic ethanol, after reading about biofuels distilleries in Iowa and Kansas that would utilize ag waste products, such as stalks and husks, instead of corn. Making ethanol from those sources would help to tamp down complaints about increasing corn demand raising the price of food.
WASHINGTON — Linking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from industry and from Republicans that it would mean a dim future for coal.
