Land Use Conflict Hangs Over Plan For Renewable Fuels Refinery On Columbia River A proposal for a $1.1 billion renewable fuels refinery on the Columbia River could be held up by a dispute over land use zoning. NPR Staff
Why Seattle Had The Worst Air Quality In The World At Some Points This Summer NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, about the cause of this summer's extremely smoky air in the Pacific Northwest.
Industrial Safety After Hurricane Harvey Hurricane Harvey was a wake-up call for petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast to rethink their plans for major floods. Companies are starting to plan for larger, more severe storms. Rebecca Hersher
Oregon Makes Case For Prescribed Fire Smoke New smoke management rules aim to increase amount of prescribed burns in fire-prone forests. NPR Staff
Lawsuit Alleges Chemical Companies Should Prepare For Unprecedented Storms Criminal charges against a chemical company that flooded during Hurricane Harvey are raising two big questions: When is pollution an accident? And when is it a crime? Rebecca Hersher
To Predict Effects Of Global Warming, Scientists Looked Back 20,000 Years More than 40 researchers concluded that climate change would make ecosystems such as deciduous forests, grasslands and Arctic tundra unrecognizable. Christopher Joyce
Insects Could Eat Twice As Much Wheat By The End of the Century As the planet warms, we're going to face bigger numbers of hungrier bugs. That could lead to lost crops in Oregon, and around the globe. Erin Ross
PPS Clears The Air For New Middle School At Harriet Tubman Building As Portland school officials toured Harriet Tubman Middle School, they marveled at the new science labs, a dance studio and the air handler. NPR Staff
Oregon Treasury To Host Sustainable Investing Conference Oregon State Treasury is hosting a free conference on sustainable investing next week to look at how the state and individual Oregonians can account for climate change when making investment decisions. NPR Staff