On Monday, July 15, the City held a public forum on the Zenith tar sands oil terminal in response to months of sustained pressure from activists and community members. It was a watershed moment in … Read more
A report released July 15 by Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE), “Crude Bailout: How Global Partners’ and Zenith Energy’s Oil Terminals Subvert Democracy, Endanger Human Life and Health, and Pollute the Planet,” reveals how billionaire … Read more
By Tom Housel* After a contentious 2019 legislative session, House Bill 2020 — Oregon’s cap-and-trade program — failed to pass the legislature because of a lack of Democratic votes in the Senate. For many, this … Read more
Extractive industries have proven adept at generating record profits, then using those same profits to protect themselves from any responsibility for cleaning up the mess they leave behind. Oregon’s timber industry is a case in … Read more
Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE) and local watershed advocates have asked 28 public water system providers in rural Oregon to intervene to halt the planned clearcutting of over 18,000 acres in surface drinking water supplies … Read more
The successful grassroots resistance to tar sands pipeline proposals across North America is resulting in an increase in the far more dangerous transport of tar sands crude by rail, putting communities and the environment in … Read more
On May 23rd, organizers and health advocates testified before the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners in opposition to a new fossil fuel project in Portland: the Zenith Energy facility importing oil trains of Canadian heavy … Read more
In a new report released today, the Center for Sustainable Economy has documented taxpayer losses of nearly $2 billion a year associated with the federal logging program carried out on national forest and Bureau of … Read more
This morning, the Portland Audubon Society, OPAL Environmental Justice, 350 PDX, the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Center for Sustainable Economy sent a letter to Portland City Commissioners and … Read more
By Alex Renirie In this historic year –the first legislative session after the International Panel on Climate Change warned in a special report in late 2018 that we have less than 12 years to make “rapid … Read more