Environment

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.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission found Lane County Commissioners may have broken public meeting law in March. The county says its conducted its meetings that way for years.

Oregon has been granted federal relief money for infrastructure damaged during last winter’s ice storm, and for other disasters that struck the state over the last five years.

After a stretch of cooler weather and even some rain, temperatures are expected to rise to dangerous levels on Friday in much of Oregon.

Lane County Commissioners voted Tuesday to finance a planned waste processing facility.

Residents in rural Benton County say they’re concerned about odor and fire risk at the Coffin Butte landfill.

EWEB is considering increasing raising electricity and water rates - citing rising costs.

The database will allow the public to see how the state manages nearly $100 billion of public employee retirement funds. The public will be able to see if Oregon voted to raise CEO compensation, or in favor of efforts to de-carbonize.

The new facility will transform food, and other organic waste into natural gas and divert more recyclables from the landfill.

Officials say the facility would transform food waste and other organic material into natural gas. It will also pull recyclable items out of the garbage stream.

This Saturday, a western Oregon tribe will celebrate the restoration of its federal recognition. And that event will happen at a site undergoing its own restoration.

Researchers say an epidemic that started in 2013 has decimated 95% of sunflower sea stars.