PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon state lawmakers are considering a bill that would make the largest fossil fuel companies pay “their fair share” of damages to the state for emissions driving climate ...

State Treasurer Tobias Read wants the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, a pension serving about 160,000 people and valued at about $90 billion, to stop investing in companies that emit ...

Pham represents House District 46-Southeast Portland, Holvey represents House District 8-Eugene and Golden represents Senate District 3- Ashland in the Oregon Legislature. As legislators in Oregon’s ...

In a civil suit filed in Oregon state court in June 2023, an Oregon county is suing more than a dozen large oil, gas and coal companies, seeking more than $50 million in damages, in connection with a ...

The Oregon State Treasury has at least $5.3 billion invested in fossil fuels, according to a report released this week by an environmental coalition calling for full divestment from the fossil fuels ...

FILE - Cargo vessels are seen anchored offshore, sharing space with oil platforms, before heading into the Los Angeles-Long Beach port on Oct. 5, 2021. Three Oregon lawmakers say in a new newspaper ...

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and ...

Ever wonder how saber-toothed cats and other extinct creatures behaved? Well, a team of scientists unearthed ancient footprints that offer insight into how various prehistoric animals lived as far ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A recent study has shown the behaviors of ancient species that once roamed the area that is now known as Oregon. In February, scientific journal Palaeontologia Electronica ...

While nearly half of Oregon is made up of diverse forests, the other half (mainly in Eastern Oregon) is high desert. Within these deserts lie both mysteries and millions of years of history, wrapped ...