Tag: Oregon

January 24, 2022

The Oregon Transportation Commission recently considered how to allocate the $412 million of flexible funding Oregon received as part of the federal infrastructure package. “These resources will help us make vital improvements to our transportation system. But this funding should […]

April 6, 2021

Last February, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) announced the Pave and Paint Project, with plans to repave and re-stripe Hawthorne Boulevard from SE 24th to SE 50th Ave. “We are looking to improve safety and better serve businesses on […]

November 9, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed nearly 90 percent of the clean-up of the hazardous household waste from Oregon’s Almeda Fire. However, two-thirds of property owners have not completed the necessary Right of Entry forms for the clean-up to […]

February 19, 2020

Milano told Oregon regulators at last week’s PUC meeting that the utility’s plan is “really a framework to help guide and inform future more ambitious program proposals going forward.” PGE will need to file an update of its TE plan […]

February 5, 2020

Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and its partners are working together through a recently developed Recycling Steering Committee to update and modernize the state’s recycling system, which was heavily disrupted in 2017 after international markets began restricting acceptance of […]

January 14, 2020

Oregon lawmakers are giving Covanta’s waste-to-energy (WTE) facility in Marion County another chance to be treated as a renewable energy source. According to a Salem Reporter article, State Rep. Brian Clem confirmed that a proposal is in the works to […]

October 4, 2019

Marion County, Ore., is suing its transfer station operator for allegedly overcharging residents for compost recycling. Statesman Journal reports that the lawsuit is centered around a 10-year contract that charges Capitol Recycling and Disposal with operating the Salem-Keizer Transfer Station. […]

December 13, 2018

During the first cycle of a three-year pilot program, Oregon’s Metro is providing nearly $2.5 million to businesses and organizations in the Portland region to help generate more benefits from the area’s garbage and recycling system. The program was created […]

July 10, 2018

ECS Refining, the second-largest e-waste recycler in the State of Oregon, shut down after a forced liquidation in bankruptcy court on July 2. ECS had been handling 41 percent of the material collected through the Oregon E Cycles program and […]

December 1, 2017

A recent report from the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) shows that Oregon fell short of its 2016 goals to reduce the amount of waste generated by Oregonians. Last year, Oregon recovered 42.6 percent of all waste generated, which […]

August 9, 2017

The Oregon House and Senate have each passed Senate Bill 987, directing state regulators to take up a review of electric grid modernization impacts as a result of new technologies, policies and incentives. The law, if signed by Gov. Kate Brown […]

November 18, 2016

Portland General Electric has filed its 2016 Integrated Resource Plan with the Oregon Public Utility Commission, outlining a strategy that focuses on energy efficiency and customer-side demand response, in the next four years, while also leaning on natural gas to […]

September 7, 2016

Portland General Electric is seeking regulatory approval to add up to 860 MW of gas-fired generation and 50 MW of solar power to its Carty plant in Boardman, Oregon, the Portland Business Journal reports. The gas-fired portion of the plant […]