Oregon Lawmakers Prepare To Release New Cap And Trade Bill Oregon lawmakers on a joint committee devoted to reducing carbon emissions plan to release a cap and trade bill next week. Cassandra Profita
The day the volcano meters went dark (because of the federal shutdown) For close to 6 hours, our region was nearly blind to what was happening inside our backyard volcanoes. John Ryan
Homeowners keep building walls around Puget Sound. Biologists are taking out more Two years in a row, more walls have come down around Puget Sound than have gone up. John Ryan
Avalanches are a big danger here. Know before you go A rescuer offers outdoor adventurers some pro tips for keeping safe in the snow. Angela King
Concern About Global Warming Among Americans Spikes, Report Says The proportion of those polled who say global warming is "personally important" to them jumped from 63 to 72 percent last year. Ian Stewart
Critics Continue Adding Voices To Challenge Of Hudson River Cleanup Results General Electric spent six years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to dredge toxic PCBs from New York's Hudson River. But now it's not clear whether this massive cleanup actually worked. Brian Mann
A Mountaineer Writes A Firsthand Report From The World's Melting Glaciers NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro speaks with journalist Dahr Jamail about his new book, "The End of Ice," on climate change and its consequences to nature and humans. Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Oregon Bottle Deposit System Hits 90 Percent Redemption Rate Oregon’s bottle deposit system is recycling more containers than ever before despite major disruptions in global recycling markets. Cassandra Profita
Federal Plan Could Reclassify Hanford Nuclear Waste — And Leave it in the Ground A new proposal from the Trump administration could dramatically change the way the government cleans up radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington. Anna King, John Notarianni
Scientists Puzzled By High Cancer Rate Among West Coast Sea Lions For almost 30 years, scientists have struggled to understand why so many sea lions get cancer. If they can, they also might answer some of the biggest questions about why humans do, too. Erin Ross
