Environment Oregon’s 2024 program agenda
We outline our program priorities for 2024, which includes protecting Oregon's special places, reducing plastic pollution, investing in climate solutions and more.
If we want a greener, healthier world we need to protect our rivers, lakes and streams.
Clean water is vital to ecosystems, to our health, and our quality of life. But too many of our rivers, lakes and streams are vulnerable to pollution. This pollution, along with outdated infrastructure – like lead pipes in our schools – puts our health at risk. We need to work together to protect our waters.
We outline our program priorities for 2024, which includes protecting Oregon's special places, reducing plastic pollution, investing in climate solutions and more.
As summer kicks into high gear and more families are hitting lakes and beaches around the country, the last thing on their minds is potential dangers lurking in the water.
A major chemical company and producer of PFAS “forever chemicals”, 3M agreed to a $10.3 billion settlement with public water utilities last Thursday.
We need to protect Oregon's mature and old-growth trees from logging. We're calling on the Biden administration to protect these vital forest habitats.
Residents on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border are returning to their homes this week following their evacuations over looming explosion fears after a train carrying 20 cars of hazardous materials derailed.
Energy Conservation & Efficiency
On Wednesday, in the Oregon House Committee on Climate, Energy and Environment, Environment Oregon state director Celeste Meiffren-Swango testified in support of two important bills.