Tuesday, June 13, 2023 By: Staff KQEN On Tuesday, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced the Forest Service has awarded Oregon more than $1.2 million to support wood products innovation in Oregon’s manufacturing facilities and develop markets for innovative uses of mass timber and renewable wood energy. A
Federal lawmakers are pushing back on the way a state agency handled complaints about a mining giant. Tuesday, June 13, 2023 By: Emily Cureton Cook OPB Don Porfily first noticed the change in his tap water last March. Out of nowhere, it tasted bad, “like mud,” said the 84-year-old feed
Monday, June 12, 2023 Lesprom Network Oregon State University has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the effects of fire on mass timber products for use in construction. The grant was announced by U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley. The study aims to determine
Saturday, June 10, 2023 By: Barry Mangold KATU PORTLAND, Ore. – Decades after her son was given a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Navy, the effort of a Portland mother to reinstate his military honors paid off. Martin Cerezo joined the Navy in 1988 after he graduated high school, following in
Thursday, June 8, 2023 By: KTVZ News Sources KTVZ WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., joined Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet in a bipartisan letter urging the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs to consider a long-term solution to increase wildland firefighter recruitment and
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 By: Brian Bull OPB The U.S. government’s Indian boarding school system is the focus of legislation that’s been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate. For over a century after colonization, thousands of Native American children were taken from their families and put into government or church-run boarding
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 By: Damien Alvarado KDRV The South Central Oregon Economic Development District (SCOEDD) is going to receive $225,000 from the Economic Development Administration. Oregon U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced in a press release that the funds will help with development planning in Klamath and
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 KTVZ WASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Tuesday that Oregon State University will receive more than $642,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to build out a tool that diagnoses invasive diseases in native plants. “Oregon is a leader in growing
Friday, June 2, 2023 KATU Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced Friday that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be investing $10 million from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to help increase fire resiliency and protect native vegetation on public lands in Oregon,
Also in this week’s legislative update: A bill aims to expand summer meal access in rural areas, and Ohio and Louisiana consider eliminating the reduced-price meal category. Tuesday, May 30, 2023 By: Benita Gingerella Food Service Director It’s been a busy month at the federal level for school meal legislation.
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