The Trump administration is proposing to restructure its US Forest Service program that trains low-income, rural students how to respond to national emergencies. The National Federation of Federal Employees, the union that represents Forest Service employees, says the move will cut more than 1,000 jobs. The Job Corps Civilian Conservation
The teens wanted to talk about climate change. Gentrification. Immigration. Sophomores at Jefferson High School in North Portland met with Oregon’s two U.S. senators during a town hall-style assembly Friday, pressing the politicians on matters both local and national. Student body president Sarah Steele kicked things off by singing “Lift
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley is taking another swing at adding wilderness protections to a large mountain above the Painted Hills near Mitchell in Eastern Oregon. The bill, introduced Wednesday, would establish 58,000 acres of wilderness on Sutton Mountain while also transferring 2,000 acres of federal land to the city of Mitchell
The Trump administration announced Friday it will close two U.S. Forest Service job training centers in Oregon and Washington. The Timber Lake Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center (CCC) in Estacada, Oregon, and the Fort Simcoe CCC near Yakima, Washington, are two of nine facilities nationwide that will close. The CCC job centers
WASHINGTON – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., urged federal officials Thursday to restore a proven practice that lets the federal government keep using local fire departments as partners to fight wildfires. The three lawmakers wrote Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt about
WASHINGTON – In recognition of 2019 World Biodiversity Day, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) on Wednesday introduced bipartisan legislation to help save endangered animals by combatting wildlife trafficking and poaching. The Rescuing Animals With Rewards (RAWR) Act would authorize the State Department to offer financial rewards for information that leads
Oregon’s two senators in Congress are pushing Union Pacific Railroad for more answers in the wake of cutting almost 200 jobs from the Hinkle Rail Yard in Hermiston. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Democrats, expressed their concerns about the job cuts in a page-and-half letter Wednesday to Lance
Democrats grilled President Trump‘s new Interior secretary on Wednesday over his recent comments that he hasn’t “lost any sleep” over aspects of climate change. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, but faced more questions about his response to climate change and a slew of ethical concerns than about
Oregon’s two U.S. senators sent a sternly worded letter to Union Pacific on Wednesday, decrying nearly 200 layoffs at the railroad’s facilities near Hermiston. “We are deeply concerned about rural Oregon economies and your company’s actions as it appears to risk destabilizing already fragile communities,” senators Ron Wyden and Jeff
Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden have joined a group of bipartisan colleagues in opposing a provision in President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget that would auction off the transmission assets of the Bonneville Power Administration and other power marketing administrations through the Department of Energy. A release
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