Environment
Want to create jobs? Reduce fossil fuel use
August 9, 2018Energy efficiency creates more jobs than fossil fuels—and at a faster rate and lower cost.
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Progressives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley battle for immigrant rights
August 6, 2018The Trump win in 2016 has had a particularly bad effect on Willamette Valley towns like Woodburn where immigrant workers are employed in agriculture and in tree planting.
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Cinco ejemplos del extremo historial ambiental de Brett Kavanaugh
August 2, 2018El historial anti-medio ambiente y anti-salud pública del nominado de Donald Trump a la Corte Suprema Brett Kavanaugh muestra que ni protegerá ni defenderá las salvaguardas fundamentales sobre el aire y agua limpios, y el clima...
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Farmworkers say new Oregon pesticide standards only benefit growers
July 20, 2018Ramon Ramirez, a farmworker leader in Oregon, says “the rule changes favor the growers rather than the people who pick the crops."
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Trump and the big, bad bugs that could kill millions
July 17, 2018Bad policies and bad pathogens go hand in hand.
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