Tag: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

The Port of Morrow on Friday, May 12, announced it has met a 30% design milestone in the planning for a major investment to...

For months, the residents of Boardman have been asking Gov. Tina Kotek to visit their city and hear first-hand how contaminated water from their...

By Alex Baumhardt The Port of Morrow, the state’s second-largest port, faces a new violation over contamination in eastern Oregon that may have been going...

By Alex Baumhardt A cash rebate program rewarding purchasers of electric vehicles is running out of money and will temporarily be suspended after April 30,...

Last week, seven organizations in the Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition submitted comments blasting an Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) proposal to reduce certain...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has granted the Port of Morrow a modified permit for industrial wastewater treatment and land application. To comply with...

Interstate 5 was closed down most of Wednesday following a pileup involving more than 60 vehicles. Around 8 a.m., Oregon State Police troopers responded to...

By Alex Baumhardt A Lamb Weston plant in Hermiston allowed hundreds of tons of excess nitrogen to be spread on two farms, potentially adding pollution...

By Alex Baumhardt State lawmakers granted nearly $6 million to address well water issues in eastern and southern Oregon. The money was approved at a meeting...

By Alex Baumhardt Clean energy developers, farmers, ranchers, forest and home owners in Oregon are slated to get hundreds of millions of dollars in grants,...

The state of Oregon recently passed a milestone in its effort to bolster public opinion of electric vehicles. In April, the state surpassed 50,000 registered...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has released a new online tool that will give the public greater access to water quality monitoring data....

This is just a portion of a special report by the Oregon Capital Chronicle. For the full story, click on the link at the...

By Alex Baumhardt In an unprecedented action, the Morrow County Commission Thursday declared a local state of emergency over groundwater nitrate pollution that has compromised...

An investigation by the Oregon Capital Chronicle shows that the state’s chief environmental agency knowingly let the Port of Morrow pollute year after year,...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District will begin construction this summer to connect the McNary Dam wastewater sewer system to the...

By Alex Baumhardt, Cole Sinanian and Jael Calloway Guadalupe Martinez points to a 24-pack of bottled water by her kitchen sink with just a few...

By Alex Baumhardt The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is asking the public to weigh in on a revised water permit for the Port of Morrow, after...

By Alex Baumhardt Lamb Weston’s French fry production plant in Hermiston has been discharging too much nitrate-loaded water onto area farms, according to the Oregon...

The silage fire continues to burn at Columbia Basin Ag Management on Highway 207. The company had scaled back extinguishment efforts but were continuing to...