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The Trump administration has plans to reopen the Pacific Northwest to offshore oil and gas leasing, but is anyone actually looking to drill in the waters off the coasts of Oregon and Washington?
The Trump administration has plans to reopen the Pacific Northwest to offshore oil and gas leasing, but is anyone actually looking to drill in the waters off the coasts of Oregon and Washington?
Biologist Jeff Lewis released a handful of weasel-like animals called fishers into the Washington Cascades in 2015. Two years later, he returned to see if any of them survived and reproduced.
As the Pacific Northwest booms, itâs using a lot of concrete to build buildings, roads and other infrastructure â and making all that concrete is a big part of our carbon footprint.
Oregonâs Department of Environmental Quality wrote a report that identified logging as a contributor to known risks for drinking water quality in communities up and down the Oregon coast. But the report has never been published.