January

What does chemical contamination cost health care?

A new national report echoes OEC’s findings on the hard costs to society of not dealing with chemical overload.

Safe baby bill passed in Washington

Washington state representatives just voted 95-1 to get bisphenol A (BPA) out of children’s food containers. "The House saw this vote as a no-brainer," says the Washington Toxics Coalition.

Good news for climate, clean air and clean energy

Portland General Electric announced yesterday that they will shut down their coal plant based in Boardman in 2020. This is good news for the climate since electricity generation is responsible for about one third of Oregon’s emissions.

New year, new challenges for global warming solutions

Our failure to advance statewide GHG reduction planning and targets is mirrored in the U.S. Senate's climate bill stalemate, and in the Copenhagen talks. Still, I'm disinclined to stop trying and I suspect that I'm not alone.