Monica Samayoa

Daimler Truck North America resumes sales of its diesel trucks in Oregon on Monday, after clarifying recently implemented sales rules with the Department of Environmental Quality.

Oregonians who switched from gas-powered vehicles to electric have helped the state reach a new milestone — more than 100,000 registered EVs in the state.

Oregon’s largest gas utility is facing yet another lawsuit this week, just days after Multnomah County added the company to a lawsuit related to 2021 heat dome deaths.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, said it was delaying the upcoming Oregon lease sale due to lack of interest.

At least one company is no longer interested in bidding on a chance to develop a floating offshore wind project off the Southern Oregon coast, and others may also have backed out.

Southern Oregon Tribes have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, in an effort to delay an upcoming floating offshore wind lease auction off the Oregon Coast.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, announced it has finalized an environmental assessment. The assessment looked at potential impacts from issuing leases to develop floating offshore wind in the region.

Oregon is asking the public to weigh in on a plan to reboot the Climate Protection Program, which aims to reduce carbon emissions from oil and gas companies and support some of the communities that will be hardest hit by climate change.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s Climate Protection Program failed to comply, “or even substantially comply,” with disclosure requirements when adopting rules under the federal Clean Air Act, the Oregon Court of Appeals said.

Oregon’s utility regulators on Tuesday told the state’s largest gas supplier, NW Natural, that its long term plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in coming years is insufficient to meet state climate goals.